Saturday, April 1, 2023

A wonderfully affirming review from acclaimed author

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  A clever idea to bookend the story of British manufacturing between the 1951 Great Exhibition and 1951 Festival of Britain. Based on exten...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Talk in Lincoln 13 March 2023

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This talk has now happened and it was very enjoyable with a great audience and interesting questions. The Historical Association recorded th...
Friday, January 27, 2023

The British Motor Industry and Semiconductors

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Exploring the story of the motor industry since WW2, its forthcoming demise was never far from the conversation. Equally, digging into the h...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

The joys of research

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  One of the joys of researching in a conventional library is the unexpected. Today in Leicester University Library I came across A History ...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

A review from a second year degree student

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This review is by Coffee and Books and makes everything worthwhile. I wanted to read How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World by Ph...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

A review from Lincoln, the city where so much manufacturing happened

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 ‘Philip’s painstaking research leads to a fascinating read’ Thank you Rob White in the Lincoln Independent for a wonderfully affirming...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution, but that is not the whole story.

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  At the start, power came from water, wood and charcoal and animals. Early experiments with coal were not entirely successful. Impurities m...