The south Yorkshire steel industry and the industrial revolution

Northern History

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 91-96

  Hey, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bessemer; Cutlery; Huntsman; Industrial revolution; Sheffield; steel

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548540136     PISSN: 0078172X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174587005X38435     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Robertas le Cotelere: was taxed in Sheffield: Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 25 Edwardi I, ed. W. Brown, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, XVI (1894), 76.
2. Historical Manuscripts Commission, A Calendar of the Shrewsbury and Talbot Papers, II (1971), 296.
3. D. Defoe, A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (Everyman edition, 1962), II, 183.
4. Mesters to Masters: A History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, ed. C. Binfield and D. Hey (Oxford, 1997), pp. 1-39.
5. K. C. Barraclough, Steelmaking before Bessemer: 1. Blister Steel, the birth of an industry; 2. Crucible Steel, the growth of technology (The Metals Society, 2 vols, 1984).
6. D. Hey, The Fiery Blades of Hallamshire: Sheffield and its Neighbourhood, 1660-1740 (Leicester, 1991), pp. 179-95.
7. N. Flavell, 'The Economic Development of Sheffield, c. 1740-c.1820' (unpub. Ph.D. thesis. Sheffield Univ. 1996).
8. Chesterfield Wills and Inventories, 1521-1603, ed. J. M. Bestall and D. V. Fowkes, Derbyshire Record Society, I (1977), 17 and 95.
9. Sheffield Archives, MD 192.
10. Barraclough, Steelmaking, I, 48-50.
11. Hey, Fiery Blades, p. 184.
12. West Yorkshire Archives Service, Leeds, MX/R IF. I owe this reference to Dr Edgar Illingworth. Tooker was making steel at Thrybergh in 1664; see Rotherham Archives, Tooker deeds, 2/1.
13. The National Archives: Public Record Office, E179/262/15.
14. This paragraph is based on Barraclough, Steelmaking, and Flavell, thesis.
15. This furnace is photographed and described in D. Hey, A History of Sheffield (Lancaster, 1998), pp. 68-69.
16. K. C. Barraclough, Benjamin Huntsman, 1704-6 (Sheffield, 1976).
17. Sheffield Archives, Fairbank, SheS 1494S; ACM lease book, S379, fol. 232
18. V. A. Beauchamp. 'The Workshops of the Cutlery Industry of Hallamshire, 1750-1900' (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, Sheffield Univ. 1996).'
19. G. Tweedale, Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Technology in Sheffield, 1743-1993 (Oxford, 1995).
20. This and the next two paragraphs are based on D. Hey. M. Olive, and M. Liddament, Forging the Valley (Sheffield, 1997).