Pete Maw
@petemaw.bsky.social
Associate Prof 18th-Century History at The University of Leeds;Atlantic trade, merchants and infrastructure; economic history; cotton; co-editor of Northern History
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Hartwell terrace, Queens Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, 1970s, photo by Peter Mitchell.
September 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Hartwell terrace, Queens Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, 1970s, photo by Peter Mitchell.
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There is now a huge variety of documented walks from Chinley station. The Steel Cotton Rail Trail takes you from Chinley>New Mills, our own Cracken Edge walk makes for an energetic hill walk from/to Chinley
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July 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
There is now a huge variety of documented walks from Chinley station. The Steel Cotton Rail Trail takes you from Chinley>New Mills, our own Cracken Edge walk makes for an energetic hill walk from/to Chinley
@peaksandpuddles.com
@walkridegm.org.uk
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@walkridegm.org.uk
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We are very sorry to learn of the death last Saturday of Professor Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025), former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History @kingshistory.bsky.social and President of the Royal Historical Society, 1996-2000 bit.ly/4lUl74K
Peter will be greatly missed by many #Skystorians
Peter will be greatly missed by many #Skystorians
Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025) - RHS
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death, on Saturday, of Professor Peter Marshall, former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London and President of the Royal Historical Socie...
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July 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We are very sorry to learn of the death last Saturday of Professor Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025), former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History @kingshistory.bsky.social and President of the Royal Historical Society, 1996-2000 bit.ly/4lUl74K
Peter will be greatly missed by many #Skystorians
Peter will be greatly missed by many #Skystorians
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New article by Ryan Foster just published on -thwaite names in Cumbria. Much missed colleague and committee member of Scottish Society for Northern Studies who died last year, still bringing new insights to Viking Age Cumbria www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #placenames #medievalsky
July 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
New article by Ryan Foster just published on -thwaite names in Cumbria. Much missed colleague and committee member of Scottish Society for Northern Studies who died last year, still bringing new insights to Viking Age Cumbria www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #placenames #medievalsky
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The many mills of Oldham (Oldham Borough Police collection, Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives).
May 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The many mills of Oldham (Oldham Borough Police collection, Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives).
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Stott Park Bobbin Mill is the last survivor of the 100-odd Lake District mills which produced wooden bobbins for the Lancashire cotton industry. It originally used water power, later electricity. It still has a small steam engine, which provided backup when water power failed #industrialarchaeology
May 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Stott Park Bobbin Mill is the last survivor of the 100-odd Lake District mills which produced wooden bobbins for the Lancashire cotton industry. It originally used water power, later electricity. It still has a small steam engine, which provided backup when water power failed #industrialarchaeology
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#HillfortsWednesday
With Shipton hillfort in the distance, this view overlooks the village of Burton Bradstock. This was home to the first flax spinning factory in Dorset and eventually to three spinning mills and a swingling mill
With Shipton hillfort in the distance, this view overlooks the village of Burton Bradstock. This was home to the first flax spinning factory in Dorset and eventually to three spinning mills and a swingling mill
April 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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With Shipton hillfort in the distance, this view overlooks the village of Burton Bradstock. This was home to the first flax spinning factory in Dorset and eventually to three spinning mills and a swingling mill
With Shipton hillfort in the distance, this view overlooks the village of Burton Bradstock. This was home to the first flax spinning factory in Dorset and eventually to three spinning mills and a swingling mill
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Nutclough Mill, Keighley Rd, Hebden Bridge, W. Yorkshire which is far larger than the photo shows as it was built into the hillside. It is 5 storeys high. Built in 1797 it was used as a cotton spinning mill with a number of firms working here. /1
May 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Nutclough Mill, Keighley Rd, Hebden Bridge, W. Yorkshire which is far larger than the photo shows as it was built into the hillside. It is 5 storeys high. Built in 1797 it was used as a cotton spinning mill with a number of firms working here. /1
Surprising find on Greek hotel bookshelf! The 2019 conference programme from the University of Leeds' peerless International Medieval Congress
April 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Surprising find on Greek hotel bookshelf! The 2019 conference programme from the University of Leeds' peerless International Medieval Congress
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Once the home of tobacco and snuff merchant William Travis of Hull, Snuff Mill House, Cottingham (c.1750) was attached to the snuff mill which over time was also used for a variety of other processes including paper and cloth manufacture. The mill was demolished around the 1930s
April 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Once the home of tobacco and snuff merchant William Travis of Hull, Snuff Mill House, Cottingham (c.1750) was attached to the snuff mill which over time was also used for a variety of other processes including paper and cloth manufacture. The mill was demolished around the 1930s
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US Tariffs are big and important news for the world economy. How should we react? I tackle this topic in my substack this week - timleunig.substack.com/p/how-to-res... trial)
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April 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
US Tariffs are big and important news for the world economy. How should we react? I tackle this topic in my substack this week - timleunig.substack.com/p/how-to-res... trial)
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Made in Manchester: Lanarkshire-born Matt Busby (1909-94) played football for Man City and later, as manager of Man United, was the first manager of an English team to win the European Cup. He is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time. 1/6
April 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Made in Manchester: Lanarkshire-born Matt Busby (1909-94) played football for Man City and later, as manager of Man United, was the first manager of an English team to win the European Cup. He is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time. 1/6
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NEW ESSAY: Ribbons, Bands and Cords – Observations by 18th Century Naturalists and Artists. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/ri...
April 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
NEW ESSAY: Ribbons, Bands and Cords – Observations by 18th Century Naturalists and Artists. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/ri...
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Lovely blue skies over what is probably Manchester's oldest surviving textiles mill. Medlock Mill started spinning cotton in 1794 but today stands disused and derelict under threat of major demolition works.
April 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Lovely blue skies over what is probably Manchester's oldest surviving textiles mill. Medlock Mill started spinning cotton in 1794 but today stands disused and derelict under threat of major demolition works.
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Dean Clough and H. Fletcher, Halifax, 1986, by Michael Kenna, Widnes-born photographer.
April 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Dean Clough and H. Fletcher, Halifax, 1986, by Michael Kenna, Widnes-born photographer.
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There’s a special issue of the international review of social history coming out. Here’s a great paper from it !
There’s a special issue of the international review of social history coming out. Here’s a great paper from it !
Wage Determination and Employer Power in the Labour Market for Servants: Evidence from England and Wales, 1780–1834 | International Review of Social History | Cambridge Core
Wage Determination and Employer Power in the Labour Market for Servants: Evidence from England and Wales, 1780–1834
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March 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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There’s a special issue of the international review of social history coming out. Here’s a great paper from it !
There’s a special issue of the international review of social history coming out. Here’s a great paper from it !
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Stanley Mills, built to harness the tremendous power of the River Tay to process cotton on a site north of Perth in the late 1700s. Part of the complex is a fascinating visitor centre telling the story of the mills. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #Stanley #Perthshire
#Scotland #Stanley #Perthshire
March 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Stanley Mills, built to harness the tremendous power of the River Tay to process cotton on a site north of Perth in the late 1700s. Part of the complex is a fascinating visitor centre telling the story of the mills. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #Stanley #Perthshire
#Scotland #Stanley #Perthshire
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Great to see the first of this new suite of videos about our undergraduate degrees in History at Leeds launched. Featuring brilliant colleagues @sarakbarker.bsky.social & @lauracking.bsky.social and our wonderful students & alumni, plus me making the case for the value and joy of a History degree.
Studying Undergraduate History at the University of Leeds #UniversityOfLeeds #HistoryBA
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March 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great to see the first of this new suite of videos about our undergraduate degrees in History at Leeds launched. Featuring brilliant colleagues @sarakbarker.bsky.social & @lauracking.bsky.social and our wonderful students & alumni, plus me making the case for the value and joy of a History degree.
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I’m sorry to add to our woes but my friend saw this
March 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I’m sorry to add to our woes but my friend saw this
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March 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Castle Mill was built in 1791 as a cotton mill. It became the centre of Knaresborough's linen trade. It was constructed as the result of an agreement between John and Charles Lomas, who ran the paper mill and water-works on the
March 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Castle Mill was built in 1791 as a cotton mill. It became the centre of Knaresborough's linen trade. It was constructed as the result of an agreement between John and Charles Lomas, who ran the paper mill and water-works on the
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Great photos of Lancashire cotton mills, giving an idea of what it was like to work in one...
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Loom with a view: Lancashire’s old cotton mills – in pictures
Amid the clatter, Daniel Meadows spent the late 1970s shooting the boiler rooms, weaving sheds and ‘mee-mawing’ workers of an industry that has since vanished
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March 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Great photos of Lancashire cotton mills, giving an idea of what it was like to work in one...
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Huge excitement in the office today at the arrival of the page proofs from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for a very special publication.
Lonsdale Ward will be the first ever volume we have produced for the historic county of Westmorland, and will also be our 250th #BigRedBook. 🗃️
Lonsdale Ward will be the first ever volume we have produced for the historic county of Westmorland, and will also be our 250th #BigRedBook. 🗃️
March 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Huge excitement in the office today at the arrival of the page proofs from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for a very special publication.
Lonsdale Ward will be the first ever volume we have produced for the historic county of Westmorland, and will also be our 250th #BigRedBook. 🗃️
Lonsdale Ward will be the first ever volume we have produced for the historic county of Westmorland, and will also be our 250th #BigRedBook. 🗃️