Gillian Cookson

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.

Selected publications

The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution Victoria County History of County Durham, V, Sunderland Victoria County History of County Durham, IV, Darlington The Townscape of Darlington The Cable: the Wire that Changed the World A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering

''Sunderland: Building a City''