Gillian Cookson

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: "Gillian Cookson" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Gillian Cookson FRHS is an English historian of the University of Leeds. She was awarded a PhD in 1994 by the University of York for her thesis titled "The West Yorkshire textile engineering industry, 1780-1850".

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. 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)

References

This biographical article about a British art historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e