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Proceedings of the First Mill Research Conference 1983
Conference took place in Luton. A5, 48pp. ISBN 978-09509758-0-1 (previously 0 9509758 0 X).
Out of Print, but a copy is available on line.
Proceedings of the Second Mill Research Conference 1984
Conference took place in Luton. A5, 72pp. ISBN 978-09509758-1-8 (previously 0 9509758 1 8).
Out of Print.
Proceedings of the Third & Fourth Mill Research Conferences
Held in Luton, 1985 & 1986. A5, 68pp. ISBN 978-09509758-2-5 (previously 0 9509758 2 6).
Out of Print.
Proceedings of the Fifth & Sixth Mill Research Conferences
Held at Mill Green watermill, Hatfield, in 1987, and
at Hinxton watermill, Cambridgeshire, in 1988. A5, 76pp. ISBN 978-09509758-3-2 (previously 0 9509758 3 4).
Out of Print.
Proceedings of the Seventh & Eighth Mill Research Conferences
Held at Alderholt mill, Sandleheath, Hampshire in 1989
and at Sacrewell mill, Thornhaugh, Cambridgeshire in 1990.
A5, 52pp. ISBN 978-09509758-4-9 (previously 0 9509758 4 2).
£3.00 post free.
| The Horse Mill in the Tour St Aubin | O Ward |
| Millstones of La Ferté Sous Jouarre | O Ward |
| Some small Swedish Postmills in Öland | WNT Roberts |
| The Mill on the Po | M Harverson |
| Variable Weather of Windmill Sails | N Plastow |
| Watermills on Navigable Waterways | AA Bryan |
| Horizontal Sugar Mills | WNT Roberts |
| Rotation of Windmill Sails & Fantails | P Jarvis |
| The Millstones of Sacrewell | O Ward |
Proceedings of the Ninth & Tenth Mill Research Conferences
Held at the windmill roundhouse at Earl Soham, Suffolk,
in 1991 and at Cranbrook windmill, Kent, in 1992. A5, 68pp.
ISBN 978-09509758-5-6 (previously 0 9509758 5 0).
£3.00 post free.
| Mills Of Mediæval Iraq | M Harverson |
| Three Unusual Milling Machines | WNT Roberts |
| Millstone Makers in London | O Ward |
| Computers & Mill Records | D Breckels |
| Rotation & Dressing in Cornmill Stones | WNT Roberts |
| Crabble Mill | P Jarvis |
| Carshalton—A Smeaton Mill | DH Jones |
| Landscape, technology & Maps | W Bignell |
Proceedings of the Eleventh Mill Research Conference
Held at Wellesbourne mill, Warwickshire, in 1993.
A5, 76pp. ISBN 978-09509758-6-3 (previously 0 9509758 6 9).
Out of print.
Proceedings of the Twelfth Mill Research Conference
Held at the Town Hall, Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire in 1994.
A5, 84pp. ISBN 978-09509758-7-0 (previously 0 9509758 7 7).
£3.50 post free.
| The Brits in Paris 1878—British Millstone Makers at the Paris Universal Exhibition | O Ward |
| How the meal emerges | (A discussion.) |
| Manx Windmills; A Contemporary Survey, 1993 | N Kelly. |
| Mill Recording in England | N Roberts |
| Fenland drainage windmills of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire | P Filby |
| A test programme for determining the grinding characteristics of millstones | P Jarvis, D Jones |
| Lutyens' and Jekyll's garden millstones | N Roberts |
| Bloxham Grove post Mill, Oxfordshire | S Buckland |
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Mill Research Conference
Held at Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield, in 1995.
A5, 48pp. ISBN 978-09509758-8-7 (previously 0 9507958 8 5).
£3.00 post free
| Variations in design, illustrated by reference to Cretan watermills. | M Harverson |
| Windmill database—England | AA Bryan |
| Use of Maps by the Industrial Historian: a case study | W Bignell |
| Mills on Pub Signs | P Bryan |
| The Water Powered Canal Incline in the British Isles | N Kelly |
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Mill Research Conference
Held at Polegate windmill, Eastbourne, Sussex in 1996.
A5, 60pp. ISBN 978-09509758-9-4 (previously 0 9509758 9 3).
£3.50 post free
| The King's Lynn Millstone Accounts | Owen Ward |
| Barn-Top Mills: A study of the agricultural wind engine | Gareth Hughes |
| Twineham and West Ashling Hollow Post Mills, Sussex | R Hawksley |
| Mills on Village Signs | Phillipa Bryan |
| The Fen Millwrights | Peter Filby |
| Jack and Jill | Stephen Buckland |
| Frank Gregory 1917–1998: an appreciation | Stephen Buckland |
| East Sussex Mills | Frank Gregory |
Windmill Gazetteer for England, first edition, 1998.
A4 landscape, 88pp. ISBN 978-09530049-0-4 (previously 0 9530049 0 2).
Out of Print.
Lists all windmill sites in England with windmill remains over 600mm high
with information on type, purpose, appearance and present condition and use.
Compiled by Tony Bryan.
If you already have a copy of the Gazetteer you will know it contains a form that
can be used by readers to report to us any changes that have taken place since publication.
If you don't want to cut your copy of the Gazetter a pdf version of the form can be
downloaded from this site.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Mill Research Conference
Held at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Lincoln, in 1997.
A5, 44pp. ISBN 978-09530049-1-1 (previously 0 9530049 1 0).
£3.50 post free
| Hammond's Patent Governor | Stephen Buckland |
| The Smock Mill in Cambridgeshire | Peter Filby |
| The Smaller English Windpump | Gareth Hughes |
| Some Reflections of fieldwork in Central & Eastern Europe | Bill Bignell |
| The Legend of Meldreth Mill | Philippa Bryan |
Origins and development of the Windmill Gazetteer for England
A5, 18pp. ISBN 978-09530049-2-8 (previously 0 9530049 2 9).
£2.50 post free
| A paper describing the compilation of the Gazetteer. | Niall Roberts |
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Mill Research Conference
Held at Barnham Windmill, West Sussex, in 1998.
A5, 64pp. ISBN 978-09530049-3-5 (previously 0 9530049 3 7).
£3.50 post free
| Grist windmill technology in Flanders in the 14th & 15th centuries | Yves Coutant |
| Millers in the Militia Lists | Michael Harverson |
| St Margaret's Bay smock mill, Kent | Stephen Buckland |
| Oil & cake mills in & around Cambridgeshire | Peter Filby |
| French millstones made-to-order | Owen Ward |
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Mill Research Conference
Held at Chilworth, Surrey, in 1999.
A5, 40pp. ISBN 978-09530049-4-2 (previously 0 9530049 4 5).
£3.50 post free
| Early Types of Water Turbine in the British Isles | Alan Crocker |
| Some more Irish Mills with Machinery—1998 visits | Niall Roberts |
| Seventeenth Mill Research Conference—Notes on Mills Visited | Alan Crocker |
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Mill Research Conference
Held at Coldharbour Mill, Uffculme, Cullompton, Devon, in 2000.
A5, 64pp. ISBN 978-09530049-5-9 (previously 0 9530049 5 3).
£3.50 post free
| Majorcan Windpumps | Tony Bryan |
| A forgotten Molinologist | Niall Roberts |
| Mills on Stamps | Phillipa Bryan |
| Mills and Millers in Literature | Milica Vernon |
| Millwrights, Mills and Engines: The Transition from Carpenter to Engineer in Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire 1750–1900 | Peter Filby |
Proceedings of the Nineeenth Mill Research Conference
Held at Greens Mill, Sneinton, Nottingham, in 2001.
A5, 72pp. ISBN 978-09530049-6-6 (previously 0 9530049 6 1).
£3.50 post free
| The watermill on Alderney, Channel Islands | Alan Crocker |
| Mow Cop Millstones | Tony Bonson |
| Customers for Cromer Postmill: Milling and Baking in north Central Hertfordshire
1758–1772, an interim study | Michael Harverson |
| Greens Theorem | Alan Crocker |
| Fen Drainage Windmills and Districts of Lincolnshire | Peter Filby |
Proceedings of the Twentieth Mill Research Conference
Held at the Museum of Rural Life, Reading, in 2002.
A5, 52pp. ISBN 978-09530049-7-3 (previously 0 9530049 7 X).
£3.50 post free
| Some Eucharistic Mills | Niall Roberts |
| Coding the Condition of Watermills on the Database | A A Bryan |
| Windmills used as Wartime Observation Posts | Sue Burden |
| Millstone Makers at Nogent-le-Rotrou: Footnote to Article in MRG 12th Proceedings 1994 | Owen Ward |
| The Esoteric Mill | Phillipa Bryan |
| Waterwheels in England | AA Bryan |
| Drainage Mills by Act of Parliament | Peter Filby |
| The On-going Work of the Mills Archive | Luke Bonwick & Ron Cookson |
| Early American Mills and the Export of Ideas A Current Line of Enquiry | David H Jones |
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Mill Research Conference
Held at Repps with Bastwick, Norfolk, in 2003.
A5, 52pp. ISBN 978-09530049-8-0 (previously 0 9530049 8 8).
£4.00 post free
| Mills in the Landscape, Economy and Society of late 18th Century Buckinghamshire
(Illustrated by Reference to the listing of the Hundred of Burnham in the Posse Comitatus of 1798) | Michael Harverson |
| Mr Reveley's Millstones | Owen Ward |
| The Ramell Windmill: a Mallorcan solution for Water Elevation | Philip Graves |
| Millwrighting Myths Concerning James Brindley | Tony Bonson |
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Mill Research Conference
Held at Willingham Windmill, Cambridgeshire, in 2004.
A5, 44pp. ISBN 978-09530049-9-7.
£4.00 post free
| Mill Espionage, 1800–1802 | Alan Crocker |
| Power Transmission in English Watermills | A.A. Bryan |
| The Decline of St Cross Mill, Newport, Isle of Wight | Shirley Kirsopp |
| The Mills of Cambridgeshire, a Resumé | Peter Filby |
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third and Twenty-Fourth Mill Research Conferences
Held in Whitchurch, Hampshire, in 2005 and Machynlleth, Powys, in 2006.
A5, 40pp. ISBN 978-09567381-0-3.
£4.50 post free
| Economic Grinding—a West Country Trial | Owen Ward |
| Ryde water and the Mills on the Eastern Yar, Isle of Wight | Shirley Kirsopp |
| Indentifying tower windmills by batter angle comparison | A.A. Bryan |
| Mills, Maladies and Magic | David H Jones |
| Anglesey Tide Mills a 2006 assessment of surviving sites | David Plunkett |
| Were the millstones really from la Ferté-sous-Jouarre? | Owen Ward |
| Ronald Hawksley mill pictures | A.A. Bryan |
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Mill Research Conference
Held in Peterborough in 2007.
A5, 40pp. ISBN 978-09567381-1-0.
£4.50 post free
| Cataloguing Mallorcan Wind Engines | Philip Graves |
| Mills in Böckler's Theatrum Machinarum Novum | Alan Crocker |
| Eastrop Mill | Shirley Kirsopp |
| Mills in Northamptonshire And North Cambridgeshire | Peter Filby |
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth and Twenty Seventh Mill Research Conferences
Held in Skidby, East Yorkshire, in 2008 and at Dover, Kent, in 2009.
A5, 56pp. ISBN 978-09567381-2-7.
£5.00 post free
| La Ferté-sous-Jouarre takes its wares to London: The Great Exhibition of 1851 | Owen Ward |
| Murder and mayhem at the mill | Guy Blythman |
| Windmills of the East Riding | Roy Gregory |
| The Rank family and their collections of mills in the Hull area | Geraldine Mathieson |
| The Michael Goodchild collection | David Plunkett |
| A Gazetteer of drainage windmills in eastern England c.1550–2000 | Peter Filby |
| The rarest tide mill—revised 2009 | David Plunkett |
| Some outstanding questions | David H. Jones |
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