Stories of Mills consists of four short stories on the theme of how technology shapes society - is it a force for good or ill? The stories are fiction but are firmly based on historical events. The Quern Stones is set in the medieval town of St Albans covering a period that includes the Black Death and the Peasants RevoltThe Factories in the Fields tells how water and wind powered sugar mills drove the development of sugar production in the slave economies of the Caribbean.The Anti-Millers of Hull is an account of how ordinary people harnessed wind power to provide one of their basic needs in a pioneering cooperative enterprise in the 19th Century.The Draining of the Mere is a story that spans the period from Jacobean times to the near future showing how energy technologies have transformed the Fenlands of the East England from wilderness to industrial farms.
Stories of Mills consists of four short stories on the theme of how technology shapes society - is it a force for good or ill? The stories are fiction but are firmly based on historical events. The Quern Stones is set in the medieval town of St Albans covering a period that includes the Black Death and the Peasants RevoltThe Factories in the Fields tells how water and wind powered sugar mills drove the development of sugar production in the slave economies of the Caribbean.The Anti-Millers of Hull is an account of how ordinary people harnessed wind power to provide one of their basic needs in a pioneering cooperative enterprise in the 19th Century.The Draining of the Mere is a story that spans the period from Jacobean times to the near future showing how energy technologies have transformed the Fenlands of the East England from wilderness to industrial farms.
Howsham Mill sits on a small island in the River Derwent near Malton in North Yorkshire. It was built in 1755 to impress, an eye-catcher, by the new heir to the Howsham Estate. It served the farmers...
Two men on a mill The story of the restoration of Baxter's Mill, est un livre classique et a été considéré comme important tout au long de l'histoire de l'humanité. Afin que ce livre ne soit jamais...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures,...
Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by...
Title: The Maid o' the Mill. A summer's story.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest...
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