Not only does it have a name, but the book will be out at the start of 2025. The name? Making an Industrial Revolution. Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation. In other words, eighteenth-century people and connections. Not so much hardware. Pre-order from 1 October 2024.
The book with no name
My lockdown project that grew into an epic is finally with the publisher. It is still nameless. It’s an interpretation of British industrialisation, mainly about the 18th century, and a lot about the iron trade. What does it say? It shows how significant collaborative working was – how much came from the workshop floor, and […]
Early machine-making in Holbeck, Leeds
Slightly strange to see physical evidence of a place I’ve known about for a very long time. Some of these fixtures and fittings now being briefly exposed belonged to the famed 19th-century textile-engineers Taylor and Wordsworth. There’s another layer of history beneath that. Somewhere on this site off Water Lane, Holbeck, the earliest textile-machine shop […]