Find out about PhD studentship opportunities on offer at Anglia Ruskin University as part of the AHRC Collections & Communities in the East of England CDP.

Other lives: Academic expert on downmarket illustrated books, prints and ephemera of Georgian and Victorian eras

University of East Anglia

This article establishes that the British Standard Whitworth thread form, suggested in 1841 and not adopted as a standard until 1905, was being used at the Crystal Palace sites (1851–1854).