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Chris Aspin

32 pp, 42 ills.

Most places in Britain have had some connection with the woollen industry. For several hundred years it was Britain's principal source of wealth and provided more jobs than all the other industries put together. The country's fortunes were largely dependent on the wool trade, in which almost every family had a stake, from the spinster at her hand wheel to the merchant seeking foreign markets. The author traces the story of wool in Britain from prehistoric times to the present day and uses many previously unpublished illustrations to illuminate his story.

Chris Aspin is an historian with a particular interest in textiles. Other titles for Shire by this author are:

The Cotton Industry.