Gillian Cookson
Biographic Data
| ID | 776620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Cookson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Cookson |
| SIGNATURE | COOKSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wortley Forge: The Evolution of an Eighteenth-Century Ironworks
The experiences of Wortley Forge reflect the British iron trade’s transformation during the eighteenth century, and iron’s pivotal role in industrialization. Its management – first under regional syndicates, afterwards, from 1739, by the Cockshutt family – shows the advantages and pitfalls of family businesses. There is new insight into the Cockshutts and their relationship to leading engineers and scientists, and into the personal interactions a…
Hunslet Foundry and the Making of Industrial Leeds
Hunslet Foundry was a pioneering venture just as Leeds began its transition into a centre of engineering and textile manufacture. The foundry was built at Hunslet Carr in 1770 to serve the Middleton colliery and railway, and other south Leeds collieries. The story of its early progress reflects more than innovation in iron-making, also illuminating the growing human connections between south Yorkshire’s metalworking districts and new industrial v…
Professor Malcolm Sherwin Chase (1957–2020)
Malcolm Chase was a brilliant and inspirational historian, a specialist in nineteenth-century radical politics and popular protest. The tributes paid after he died in February are testament to the
ObituaryProfessor Katrina Honeyman
Making scientific instruments in the industrial revolution - By Alison D. Morrison-Low
Submarine Cables: Novelty and Innovation, 1850–1870
(2006). Submarine Cables: Novelty and Innovation, 1850–1870. Transactions of the Newcomen Society: Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 207-219
Watt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention (review)
Reviewed by: Watt’s Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention Gillian Cookson (bio) Watt’s Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention. By Ben Marsden. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. ix+213. $19.50. To start at the end—which is generally the direction from which James Watt is approached—Ben Marsden's defining final chapter, marked by a skillful turn of phrase, considers the inventor's reinvention as a genius and eponymous …
Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (review)
Writing the biography of a national icon is never going to be without problems. Angus Buchanan is clear about the constraints within which he works; what else besides Robert Howlett's "Brunel in Chains" could have adorned the dust jacket? There is not much new in the way of source material, so the novelty this volume offers—besides a conscientious citation of references—is a thematic arrangement, focusing especially on the more neglected parts of…
Ruinous competition »: The French Atlantic telegraph of 1869
Family Firms and Business Networks: Textile Engineering in Yorkshire, 1780–1830
Recent accounts of nineteenth-century industrial organisation have presented the family firm as a secure environment in an essentially low-trust business environment. This article considers the transition of the textile engineering industry from an artisan trade of the late eighteenth century to one centred upon factories from the 1820s. Business networks were much more than casual links outside individual firms, but made up a central part of the…
Innovation, Diffusion, and Mechanical Engineers in Britain, 1780-1850
In a wide-ranging examination of the role of capital goods' suppliers in stimulating and spreading technical innovation during the nineteenth century, MacLeod focuses attention upon the much neglected mechanical engineering industry.2 Her assessment of that industry's achievements is based on a comparison with innovation and diffusion within user industries, considering mainly textiles and textile machine making. Using evidence extracted from pat…
Family Firms and Business Networks: Textile Engineering in Yorkshire, 1780–1830
Recent accounts of nineteenth-century industrial organisation have presented the family firm as a secure environment in an essentially low-trust business environment. This article considers the transition of the textile engineering industry from an artisan trade of the late eighteenth century to one centred upon factories from the 1820s. Business networks were much more than casual links outside individual firms, but made up a central part of the…
Innovation, Diffusion, and Mechanical Engineers in Britain, 1780-1850
In a wide-ranging examination of the role of capital goods' suppliers in stimulating and spreading technical innovation during the nineteenth century, MacLeod focuses attention upon the much neglected mechanical engineering industry.2 Her assessment of that industry's achievements is based on a comparison with innovation and diffusion within user industries, considering mainly textiles and textile machine making. Using evidence extracted from pat…
Family Firms and Business Networks: Textile Engineering in Yorkshire, 1780–1830
Recent accounts of nineteenth-century industrial organisation have presented the family firm as a secure environment in an essentially low-trust business environment. This article considers the transition of the textile engineering industry from an artisan trade of the late eighteenth century to one centred upon factories from the 1820s. Business networks were much more than casual links outside individual firms, but made up a central part of the…
Ruinous competition »: The French Atlantic telegraph of 1869
Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (review)
Writing the biography of a national icon is never going to be without problems. Angus Buchanan is clear about the constraints within which he works; what else besides Robert Howlett's "Brunel in Chains" could have adorned the dust jacket? There is not much new in the way of source material, so the novelty this volume offers—besides a conscientious citation of references—is a thematic arrangement, focusing especially on the more neglected parts of…
Watt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention (review)
Reviewed by: Watt’s Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention Gillian Cookson (bio) Watt’s Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention. By Ben Marsden. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. ix+213. $19.50. To start at the end—which is generally the direction from which James Watt is approached—Ben Marsden's defining final chapter, marked by a skillful turn of phrase, considers the inventor's reinvention as a genius and eponymous …
Submarine Cables: Novelty and Innovation, 1850–1870
(2006). Submarine Cables: Novelty and Innovation, 1850–1870. Transactions of the Newcomen Society: Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 207-219
Making scientific instruments in the industrial revolution - By Alison D. Morrison-Low
ObituaryProfessor Katrina Honeyman
Professor Malcolm Sherwin Chase (1957–2020)
Malcolm Chase was a brilliant and inspirational historian, a specialist in nineteenth-century radical politics and popular protest. The tributes paid after he died in February are testament to the
Hunslet Foundry and the Making of Industrial Leeds
Hunslet Foundry was a pioneering venture just as Leeds began its transition into a centre of engineering and textile manufacture. The foundry was built at Hunslet Carr in 1770 to serve the Middleton colliery and railway, and other south Leeds collieries. The story of its early progress reflects more than innovation in iron-making, also illuminating the growing human connections between south Yorkshire’s metalworking districts and new industrial v…
Wortley Forge: The Evolution of an Eighteenth-Century Ironworks
The experiences of Wortley Forge reflect the British iron trade’s transformation during the eighteenth century, and iron’s pivotal role in industrialization. Its management – first under regional syndicates, afterwards, from 1739, by the Cockshutt family – shows the advantages and pitfalls of family businesses. There is new insight into the Cockshutts and their relationship to leading engineers and scientists, and into the personal interactions a…
Engineering (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Management (3 works)