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Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
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Goods for the world. European Theme Route Manufacturing
Domestic handmade textile production was typical for the pre-industrial age. The father sat at the loom and the women of the family were responsible for spinning the yarn. An entrepreneur (in Germany he was called a "Verleger") delivered the raw material and organised sales, often over considerable distances. Textile manufacture was the leading industry in Europe: from the 16th century onwards it was basically organised on such a system. The first types of factories grew up in the 17th century, when larger groups of workers were concentrated in so-called "manufactories".
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Geeste | Emsland Moormuseum |
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Geestmoor 6 | 49744 Geeste | Germany |
| Geest is the name given to a particular type of landscape, a slightly elevated area of sandy and gravelly soils, most commonly heathland, bordering marshlands. It is also the name of a village in Lowe... more >> |
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Genk | Bokrijk Open Air Museum |
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Domein Bokrijk | 3600 Genk | Belgium |
| Bokrijk is an open air museum in the tradition of Skansen, which reflects the social history and material culture of the Flemish provinces of Belgium. It was largely the creation of Dr J Weyns, its fi... more >> |
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Gjirokaster | Museum of Ethnography |
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Rr Hysen Hoxha 3 | Gjirokaster | Albania |
| Gjirokastra on the Drinos river in southern Albania was classified a ‘museum city’ by the former Communist regime, and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. It is a city of fortress... more >> |
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Gnosjö | Gnosjö Industrial Museum |
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33580 Gnosjö | Sweden |
| Gnosjö Industrimuseum (Gnosjö Industrial Museum) is the collective name given to the museums and conserved monuments relating to metal-working around the small town of Gnosjö, 65 km south-west of J... more >> |
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Göppingen | Märklin Museum World of Adventure |
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Reutlinger Strasse 2 | 73037 Göppingen | Germany |
| The Märklin company, perhaps Europe’s best-known manufacturer of model trains, originated in 1859 in Goppingen, 40 km east of Stuttgart, when a tinsmith, Theodore Märklin, began to make dolls’ h... more >> |
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Great Dunmow | Great Dunmow Maltings |
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Mill Lane | CM6 1BG Great Dunmow | Great Britain |
| Great Dunmow Maltings is a rare example of a small 16th century two-storey, timber-framed malthouse in a market town. Operational until 1948 and rescued from dereliction in the 1990s it is authentical... more >> |
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk | Time and Tide Museum |
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Blackfriars Road | NR30 3BX Great Yarmouth, Norfolk | Great Britain |
| Time and Tide, the Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, occupies the premises of the former Tower Fish Curing Works. The works closed in 1988 and in the following year it was first suggested that the buildi... more >> |
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Grimsby | Fishing Heritage Centre |
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Alexandra Dock | DN31 1UZ Grimsby | Great Britain |
| In the second half of the 19th century ‘industrial’ fishing ports developed in many European countries, with docks for handling steam trawlers, systems for supplying them with coal, rail connectio... more >> |
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Guise | La Familistère Godin à Guise |
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265 Familistère aile droit | 02120 Guise | France |
| The iron founder Jean-Baptiste Godin (1817-88) was inspired by the writings of the utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1771-1837) and in 1859 established a foundry in a meander of the River Oise, and a... more >> |
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Gustavsberg | Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum & Ceramics Centre |
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OdelsbergVäg 5B | 13 423 Gustavsberg | Sweden |
| The porcelain factory known as Gustavsberg on Varmdo island in the Stockholm archipelago, 21 km east of the city centre, was established in 1825 by Johan Herman Ohman on the site of a 17th century bri... more >> |
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Hagen | LWL Open-Air Museum |
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Mäckingerbach | 58091 Hagen | Germany |
| The piercing pounding of the mighty scythe rings through the green valley of the Mäckinger stream – no wonder that the old blacksmiths suffered from deafness. Other locations are also full of activ... more >> |
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Hagen | LWL Open Air Museum of Handicrafts and Science |
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Mäckingerbach | 58091 Hagen | Germany |
| The piercing pounding of the mighty scythe rings through the green valley of the Mäckinger stream – no wonder that the old blacksmiths suffered from deafness. Other locations are also full of activ... more >> |
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Halfweg | Sugar City |
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Haarlemmerstraatweg 22 | 1165 MJ Halfweg | Netherlands |
| The first sugarfactory at this location was started at 1863. It was closed after few years. Then the N.V. Suikerfabriek Holland opened. It became part of the Centrale Suiker Maatschappij, the Central ... more >> |
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Hamburg | Museum of Work |
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Wiesendamm 3 | 22305 Hamburg | Germany |
| The telephone, the light bulb, the camera – what we now take for granted was revolutionary around 1900. But technical progress had its price, as can be seen by the spittoon for tuberculosis sufferer... more >> |
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Harlingen | Hannemahuis Museum |
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Voorstraat 56 | 8861 BM Harlingen | Netherlands |
| Harlingen, on the eastern side of the IJsselmeer (Zuyder Zee), enjoys direct access to the North Sea. Its harbour basins, canals, arched bridges and merchants’ dwellings provide vivid evidence of th... more >> |
