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Gillian Cookson
FRHS is an English historian of the
University of Leeds.
Life
Cookson researches in economic history, the 18th and 19th-century industrial history of
Northern England, the history of mechanical engineering and textiles, industrial communities and business networks and landscape history.
[1] She is president of the
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society.[
citation needed]
Selected publications
- The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution (Boydell, 2018)
- Victoria County History of County Durham, V, Sunderland (Boydell and Brewer, 2015)
- Victoria County History of County Durham, IV, Darlington (Boydell and Brewer, 2005)
- The Townscape of Darlington (VCH Studies series: Boydell Press, 2003)
- The Cable: the Wire that Changed the World (Tempus Publishing, 2003; new edition by The History Press, 2012)
- A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering (with C.A. Hempstead: Ashgate, 2000)
- Sunderland: Building a City (VCH Studies series: Phillimore, 2010)
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