The nature and location of resources
5. Printed
(a) Primary
For a view of industry in the county at the end of the eighteenth century
see
- Robert Lowe, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Nottingham
(1798)
Important nineteenth century sources include:
Trade directories. Published every few years in the nineteenth century
and containing lists of firms etc. Many copies in Nottinghamshire
Archives and Nottinghamshire
Local Studies Library. Two important contemporary texts available
in print are:
- William Felkin, A History of the Machine-Wrought Hosiery and Lace
Manufactures (1867, reprinted 1967). The classic contemporary description
of the trade.
- Gravenor Henson, The Civil, Political, and Mechanical History of
the Framework-Knitters, in Europe and America (1831, reprinted
1970).
19th century Parliamentary Papers carried extensive evidence about the
industrial work. Many of these, in hard copy, are in Nottingham University
Library, which has a list of relevant documents for Nottinghamshire.
Newspapers. Nottinghamshire
Local Studies Library keep collections of newspaper cuttings. For
the location of newspapers in the county see M. Brook, Bibliography
of British Newspapers: Nottinghamshire (1987)
(b) Secondary
There is a vast literature on the industrial history of the county, and
only a relatively small selection is given here. For more detail see M.
Brook, A Nottinghamshire Bibliography (Thoroton Society Record
Series, 42, 2002), especially pp. 31-43, 161-8. Industrial structures
are discussed in the regularly published newsletter of the Nottinghamshire
Industrial Archaeology Society.
For a dated, but still useful introduction to the subject see
- A.B.W. Chapman, `Social and Economic History', in Victoria County
History, Nottinghamshire, 2 (1910), 265-307.
For general overviews of Nottingham's industry see John Beckett, ed.,
A Centenary History of Nottingham (Manchester, 1997), especially
chapters 5, 8, 14, 20.
- S. Brazier, ed., A New Geography of Nottingham (2nd edn., Nottingham,
1988)
For a general interpretation of Nottinghamshire’s place in the industrial
revolution:
- Beckett, J.V. and Heath, J.E. `When was the Industrial Revolution
in the East Midlands?', Midland History, 13 (1988), 77-94
Coal
- George, P.K. 'The Continuing Decline of Coal Mining in Nottinghamshire
and the East Midlands', Trent Geographer, no. 14 (1993), 31-46.
- A.R. Griffin, Mining in the East Midlands, 1550-1947 (1971).
- A.R. Griffin, The Nottinghamshire Coalfield, 1881-1981: A Century
of Progress. A Pictorial History of the Nottinghamshire Coalfield to
Commemorate the Centenary of the Nottinghamshire Miners' Association,
1881-1981 (Ashbourne, 1981).
- Griffin, C.P. "Three Days Down the Pit and Three Days Play":
Unemployment in the East Midland Coalfields Between the Wars', International
R. of Social History, 38 (1993), 321-43.
- R.J. Waller, The Dukeries Transformed. The Social and Political
Development of a Twentieth Century Coalfield (Oxford, 1983).
- On industrial relations in the coal industry:
- A.R. Griffin, The Miners of Nottinghamshire (2 vols, Nottingham,
1955, 1962)
- W.J. Morgan and K. Coates, The Nottinghamshire Coalfield and
the British Miners' Strike, 1984-85 (University of Nottingham,
1990).
Textiles
- S. Robinson and M. Brook, An Introductory Bibliography of the Hosiery
and Lace Industries in Nottingham and District to 1920, with Nottingham
Locations (University of Nottingham, 1982)
- S.D. Chapman, Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-Scale
Industry in Britain, c.1589-2000 (Oxford, 2002). Brings together
and updates much of Chapman's earlier work, and has extensive reference
to the Nottingham area.
- S.D. Chapman, The Early Factory Masters: The Transition to the
Factory System in the Midlands Textile Industry (Newton Abbot, 1967).
- P. Earnshaw, Lace Machines and Machine Lace (1986)
- K. Honeyman, Origins of Enterprise: Business Leadership in the
Industrial Revolution (Manchester, 1982)
- D.E. Lowe and J. Richards, William Lee and Lace (1989)
- Rogers, A. 'Rural Industries and Social Structure: The Framework Knitting
Industry of South Nottinghamshire, 1670-1840', Textile History,
12 (1981), 7-36.
- S.A. Mason, Nottingham Lace, 1760s-1950s: The Machine-Made Lace
Industry in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire (Ilkeston,
1994)
- Oldfield, G. 'The Nottingham Lace Market', Textile History,
15 (1984), 191-208.
- M. Palmer, Framework Knitting (Shire Album 119, 1984)
- D.E. Varley, A History of the Midland Counties Lace Manufacturers'
Association, 1915-1958 (Long Eaton, 1959).
- Wallwork, S.C. 'A Review of the Statistics of the Growth of the British
Hosiery Industry, 1844-1984', Textile History, 22 (1991), 83-104.
Industrial relations
- R.I. Gurnham, A History of the Trade Union Movement in the Hosiery
and Knitwear Industry, 1776-1976: the History of the National Union
of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers, its Evolution and its Predecessors
(Leicester, 1976). Note that the publisher's spine title is 200
Years. The Hosiery Unions, 1776-1976.
Tobacco
- John Player & Sons, John Player & Sons: Centenary 1877-1977
(Nottingham, 1977).
- M. Corina, Trust in Tobacco: The Anglo-American Struggle for Power
(1975).
Pharmaceuticals
- S.D. Chapman, Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemists: A Study in Business
History (1974).
- R. Iliffe and W. Baguley, Victorian Nottingham, 18 (1977),
'Boots the Chemists', 53-87.
- C. Weir, Jesse Boot of Nottingham, Founder of The Boots Company.
Nottingham (The Company, 1994).
Bicycles
- G.H. Bowden, The Story of the Raleigh Cycle (1975)
- R. Lloyd Jones and M.J. Lewis, Raleigh and the British Bicycle
Industry: an economic and business history (2000)
- D. Noble, Thus We Served (Nottingham, 1946), for Raleigh Industries
during World War II.
- Zaleski, S. `The Raleigh Story', Lenton Listener, no. 10 (1981),
4-6; no. 11 (1982), 1, 4-6.
Industrial Archaeology
- D.M. Smith, The Industrial Archaeology of the East Midlands
(Dawlish, 1965)
- Marilyn Palmer & Peter Neaverson, Industrial Landscapes of
the East Midlands (Phillimore, 1992).
- Ian Brown, Nottinghamshire's Industrial Heritage (Nottinghamshire
County Council, 1989)
- Numerous relevant articles in Nottinghamshire Industrial Archaeology
Society Journal and Newsletter, 1977-
Luddism
- Foster, P. `The Spread of Luddism in Nottingham and its Surrounding
Villages', Nottinghamshire Historian, 42 (1989), 18-22
- Russell, J. `The Luddites', Transactions of the Thoroton Society,
10 (1906), 53-62.
- A. Randall and A. Charlesworth, `Luddism in the Midlands', in A. Charlesworth
et.al., eds., An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain, 1750-1990
(Basingstoke, 1996), 34-8.
- Thomis, M.I. `Gravener Henson: the Man and the Myth', in Transactions
of the Thoroton Society, 75 (1971), 91-7.
- M.I. Thomis, ed., Luddism in Nottinghamshire (Thoroton Record
Series, 26, 1972)
- M.I. Thomis, The Luddites: Machine-breaking in Regency England
(Newton Abbot, 1970)
Trade Unions
- Stevens, R. `Trades Councils and the Organisation of the Unemployed:
the East Midlands in the 1930s', Journal of Regional and Local Studies,
14 (1994), 39-53
- Stevens, R. "Disruptive Elements?" the influence of the
Communist Party in Nottingham and District Trades Council, 1929-1951',
Labour History Review, 58 (1993), 22-37
- P. Wyncoll, `The East Midlands', in J. Skelley, ed., The General
Strike, 1926 (1976)
- P. Wyncoll, The Nottingham Labour Movement 1880-1939 (1985)
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