Printed
Primary
For a view of industry in the county at the end of the eighteenth century see
- Robert Lowe, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Nottingham (1798)
Important nineteenth century sources include:
Trade directories. Published every few years in the nineteenth century and containing lists of firms etc. Many copies in Nottinghamshire Archives and Nottinghamshire Local Studies Library. Two important contemporary texts available in print are:
- William Felkin, A History of the Machine-Wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures (1867, reprinted 1967). The classic contemporary description of the trade.
- Gravenor Henson, The Civil, Political, and Mechanical History of the Framework-Knitters, in Europe and America (1831, reprinted 1970).
19th century Parliamentary Papers carried extensive evidence about the industrial work. Many of these, in hard copy, are in Nottingham University Library, which has a list of relevant documents for Nottinghamshire.
Newspapers. Nottinghamshire Local Studies Library keep collections of newspaper cuttings. For the location of newspapers in the county see M. Brook, Bibliography of British Newspapers: Nottinghamshire (1987)
Secondary
There is a vast literature on the industrial history of the county, and only a relatively small selection is given here. For more detail see M. Brook, A Nottinghamshire Bibliography (Thoroton Society Record Series, 42, 2002), especially pp. 31-43, 161-8. Industrial structures are discussed in the regularly published newsletter of the Nottinghamshire Industrial Archaeology Society.
For a dated, but still useful introduction to the subject see
- A.B.W. Chapman, `Social and Economic History', in Victoria County History, Nottinghamshire, 2 (1910), 265-307.
For general overviews of Nottingham's industry see John Beckett, ed., A Centenary History of Nottingham (Manchester, 1997), especially chapters 5, 8, 14, 20.
- S. Brazier, ed., A New Geography of Nottingham (2nd edn., Nottingham, 1988)
For a general interpretation of Nottinghamshire’s place in the industrial revolution:
- Beckett, J.V. and Heath, J.E. `When was the Industrial Revolution in the East Midlands?', Midland History, 13 (1988), 77-94
Coal
- George, P.K. 'The Continuing Decline of Coal Mining in Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands', Trent Geographer, no. 14 (1993), 31-46.
- A.R. Griffin, Mining in the East Midlands, 1550-1947 (1971).
- A.R. Griffin, The Nottinghamshire Coalfield, 1881-1981: A Century of Progress. A Pictorial History of the Nottinghamshire Coalfield to Commemorate the Centenary of the Nottinghamshire Miners' Association, 1881-1981 (Ashbourne, 1981).
- Griffin, C.P. "Three Days Down the Pit and Three Days Play": Unemployment in the East Midland Coalfields Between the Wars', International R. of Social History, 38 (1993), 321-43.
- R.J. Waller, The Dukeries Transformed. The Social and Political Development of a Twentieth Century Coalfield (Oxford, 1983).
- On industrial relations in the coal industry:
- A.R. Griffin, The Miners of Nottinghamshire (2 vols, Nottingham, 1955, 1962)
- W.J. Morgan and K. Coates, The Nottinghamshire Coalfield and the British Miners' Strike, 1984-85 (University of Nottingham, 1990).
Textiles
- S. Robinson and M. Brook, An Introductory Bibliography of the Hosiery and Lace Industries in Nottingham and District to 1920, with Nottingham Locations (University of Nottingham, 1982)
- S.D. Chapman, Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-Scale Industry in Britain, c.1589-2000 (Oxford, 2002). Brings together and updates much of Chapman's earlier work, and has extensive reference to the Nottingham area.
- S.D. Chapman, The Early Factory Masters: The Transition to the Factory System in the Midlands Textile Industry (Newton Abbot, 1967).
- P. Earnshaw, Lace Machines and Machine Lace (1986)
- K. Honeyman, Origins of Enterprise: Business Leadership in the Industrial Revolution (Manchester, 1982)
- D.E. Lowe and J. Richards, William Lee and Lace (1989)
- Rogers, A. 'Rural Industries and Social Structure: The Framework Knitting Industry of South Nottinghamshire, 1670-1840', Textile History, 12 (1981), 7-36.
- S.A. Mason, Nottingham Lace, 1760s-1950s: The Machine-Made Lace Industry in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire (Ilkeston, 1994)
- Oldfield, G. 'The Nottingham Lace Market', Textile History, 15 (1984), 191-208.
- M. Palmer, Framework Knitting (Shire Album 119, 1984)
- D.E. Varley, A History of the Midland Counties Lace Manufacturers' Association, 1915-1958 (Long Eaton, 1959).
- Wallwork, S.C. 'A Review of the Statistics of the Growth of the British Hosiery Industry, 1844-1984', Textile History, 22 (1991), 83-104.
Industrial relations
- R.I. Gurnham, A History of the Trade Union Movement in the Hosiery and Knitwear Industry, 1776-1976: the History of the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers, its Evolution and its Predecessors (Leicester, 1976). Note that the publisher's spine title is 200 Years. The Hosiery Unions, 1776-1976.
Tobacco
- John Player & Sons, John Player & Sons: Centenary 1877-1977 (Nottingham, 1977).
- M. Corina, Trust in Tobacco: The Anglo-American Struggle for Power (1975).
Pharmaceuticals
- S.D. Chapman, Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemists: A Study in Business History (1974).
- R. Iliffe and W. Baguley, Victorian Nottingham, 18 (1977), 'Boots the Chemists', 53-87.
- C. Weir, Jesse Boot of Nottingham, Founder of The Boots Company. Nottingham (The Company, 1994).
Bicycles
- G.H. Bowden, The Story of the Raleigh Cycle (1975)
- R. Lloyd Jones and M.J. Lewis, Raleigh and the British Bicycle Industry: an economic and business history (2000)
- D. Noble, Thus We Served (Nottingham, 1946), for Raleigh Industries during World War II.
- Zaleski, S. `The Raleigh Story', Lenton Listener, no. 10 (1981), 4-6; no. 11 (1982), 1, 4-6.
Industrial Archaeology
- D.M. Smith, The Industrial Archaeology of the East Midlands (Dawlish, 1965)
- Marilyn Palmer & Peter Neaverson, Industrial Landscapes of the East Midlands (Phillimore, 1992).
- Ian Brown, Nottinghamshire's Industrial Heritage (Nottinghamshire County Council, 1989)
- Numerous relevant articles in Nottinghamshire Industrial Archaeology Society Journal and Newsletter, 1977-
Luddism
- Foster, P. `The Spread of Luddism in Nottingham and its Surrounding Villages', Nottinghamshire Historian, 42 (1989), 18-22
- Russell, J. `The Luddites', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 10 (1906), 53-62.
- A. Randall and A. Charlesworth, `Luddism in the Midlands', in A. Charlesworth et.al., eds., An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain, 1750-1990 (Basingstoke, 1996), 34-8.
- Thomis, M.I. `Gravener Henson: the Man and the Myth', in Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 75 (1971), 91-7.
- M.I. Thomis, ed., Luddism in Nottinghamshire (Thoroton Record Series, 26, 1972)
- M.I. Thomis, The Luddites: Machine-breaking in Regency England (Newton Abbot, 1970)
Trade Unions
- Stevens, R. `Trades Councils and the Organisation of the Unemployed: the East Midlands in the 1930s', Journal of Regional and Local Studies, 14 (1994), 39-53
- Stevens, R. "Disruptive Elements?" the influence of the Communist Party in Nottingham and District Trades Council, 1929-1951', Labour History Review, 58 (1993), 22-37
- P. Wyncoll, `The East Midlands', in J. Skelley, ed., The General Strike, 1926 (1976)
- P. Wyncoll, The Nottingham Labour Movement 1880-1939 (1985)