Gillian Cookson

Gillian Cookson FRHS is a historian of the University of Leeds.

Cookson is a specialist in the industrial history of Northern England in the 18th and 19th centuries.[1] She is president of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society.

Selected publications
  • The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution (Boydell, 2018)
  • Victoria County History of County Durham, V, Sunderland (Boydell and Brewer, 2015)
  • Victoria County History of County Durham, IV, Darlington (Boydell and Brewer, 2005)
  • The Townscape of Darlington (VCH Studies series: Boydell Press, 2003)
  • The Cable: the Wire that Changed the World (Tempus Publishing, 2003; new edition by The History Press, 2012)
  • A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering (with C.A. Hempstead: Ashgate, 2000)
  • Sunderland: Building a City (VCH Studies series: Phillimore, 2010)
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References
  1. Honorary Research Fellow Gillian Cookson. University of Leeds. Retrieved 17 December 2017.


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