New PhD. Networks, innovation and knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851 (2017), now online and public. It…

“reconstructs the district at the firm level, showing that the region’s growth was incredibly dynamic. The spatial concentration of producers and the importance of social and business networks are also explored through a new map of the region in 1802 and social network analysis. … a study of a craft-based, highly skilled industry without a legacy of formal institutions such as guilds to govern and protect access to knowledge”

The 1802 map.