Suggested Reading

Contemporary Writings

• Tools - a Genuine Expression of Folk Art by Jonathan Green-Plumb

• The Ken Hawley Experience by Derek Bateson

• Tweedale’s Day in Albuquerque… by Wiktor Kuc

• A little Tillotson saw by Matthew Cianci

• The South Yorshire Steel... by David Hey, Univ. of Sheffield

• The Saunders Collection by Trevor Winter

• Iron, Steel and their Variations and Alloys by Brian Read

• Acid Etching on Saws by Simon Barley

• A Further Notes on Etching - TATHS

• Steel and Saws by Simon Barley

• The Apprentice by Peter Hyde

Reports from the Past

• 1961 - Story of the Saw by P. d' A. Jones and E. N. Simons

• 1919 - Sheffield - The Cutlers' Company by J. S. Fletcher

• 1906 - Industrial Efficiency by Arthur Shadwell

• 1884 - Foreign Rivalries - Hardware by H. R. Fox Bourne

• 1884 - Great Industries of Great Britain, part 1

• 1884 - Great Industries of Great Britain, part 3

• 1876 - British Perspective - The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876

• 1865 - An English Operative in an American Factory, Scientific American, 1865

• 1866 - Sheffield Saw Manufacture - The Working Men

• 1875 - Reminiscences of Old Sheffield, Its Streets and Its People by Robert E. Leader

• 1871 - Manufacture of Saws in Sheffield Manufacturer and Builder

• 1867 - Toolmaker's Observation of Paris Universal Exposition

• 1863 - Industrial Biography: Iron workers and Tool makers by Samuel Smiles

• 1844 - A Day in the Birmingham Factories- The Penny Magazine

• 1844 - Day Two at the Birmingham Factories - The Penny Magazine

• 1844 - A Day at the Butterley Iron Works, Derbyshire

• 1844 - A Day at the Sheffield Cutlery Works - Saws - Part 1

• 1844 - A Day at the Sheffield Cutlery Works - Cutlery - Part 2

• 1836 - Saws - History and Making by Luke Hebert

• 1813 - The Circle of the Mechanical Arts by Thomas Martin

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