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Gems of the Archive: Of War and Waterwheels
You may be familiar with the artist Sir Alfred Munnings, known for his impressive oil paintings of everything equine: from elegant race horses, to majestic hunting steeds, to quaint pastoral scenes featuring portly ponies blending into an idyllic, English landscape.
Gems of the Archive: The Women Who Mill Alone
In recognition of International Women’s Day on 8th March, in this week’s blog we are showing our appreciation for women in milling by featuring two formidable female millers. Milling: a man’s job in a man’s world, or so it certainly
Gems of the Archive: Drama, Scandal and Mills
With a title that sounds like it comes straight from a John le Carré spy novel, our Gems of the Archive story featuring the unusual life of Karl Wood is an intrepid tale of adventure and scandal, passion and faith.
Articles
A Slice of Milling History
The Millers’ Mutual Collection is one of the most important additions to our archives in recent years. As a national...
Margery Kempe: Mystic and Medieval Miller
For International Women’s Day we have reproduced below one of the biographies of women millers from our online exhibition where...
Roll out the Barrel
Flour packaging has always been important for millers, and has changed greatly over time – had it not progressed alongside...
The Mill Architect
I first met architect John Reynolds when I was editing the Mills and Millers of Hampshire set of books for...
