'Meeting standards. Bristol powdermakers in the eighteenth century' in B J Buchanan (ed), Gunpowder. The history of an international technology
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- Author(s) Buchanan, Brenda J
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1996
- Pages pp237-52
- Publisher Bath University Press
- Place Published Bath
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- Name Government procurement
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Deals with the gunpowder industry in the Bristol area, focusing especially on the so-called Woolley partners, operators of a large works built in the 1720s at Woolley, neat Bath, and, at length, the unsuccessful attempts of the makers to obtain sales to the Board of Ordnance