Resources

Take your research further

BOOKS

Glory Gone: The Story of Nailing in Bromsgrove

Bill Kings and Margaret Cooper Halfshire Books, 1989

This comprehensive account of nail-making in Bromsgrove is available second-hand.

The White Slaves of England

Robert Harborough Sherard James Bowden, 1897

This book describes the conditions of nail-makers in Worcestershire at the end of the 19th century, and is available for free from the Internet Archive at

bit.ly/arch-white-slaves.

SOCIETY

BELPER HISTORICAL SOCIETY

w belperhistoricalsociety.co.uk The society has information about nail-making in this Derbyshire community, which was renowned for horse nails. MIKE SHARPE

is a genealogist. His books include Tracing Your Potteries Ancestors (Pen & Sword, 2019)