{"id":1005,"date":"2009-02-10T21:53:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2013-05-16T21:52:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:52:40","slug":"news-letter-10th-february-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; February 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman Ray Porter opened the Society\u2019s February meeting by welcoming visitors and new members, detailing the outing to the National Memorial Arboretum and St Giles\u2019 Church, Cheadle on 25<sup>th<\/sup> April, inviting members and friends to the Social on 15<sup>th<\/sup> May, promoting Don Freeth\u2019s War Memorial book and advertising the ramble to Leasowes Park on 15<sup>th<\/sup> February.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting \u2018Industrial Espionage in the Eighteenth Century\u2019, our speaker, Dr Helen Smith began by setting the scene in post-Industrial Revolution Britain and describing how other countries, particularly France, wanted to emulate the success of British manufacturers.\u00a0 Consequently, French manufacturers attempted to make their own \u2018English\u2019 goods \u2013 cloth, lace, glass, buttons and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The real nub of Dr Smith\u2019s talk concerned the illicit recruitment of British workers, including those making Stourbridge glass, to produce these goods in France.\u00a0 The ideal recruit was young, unmarried and Catholic and had to be prepared to bring his skills, knowledge and tools to his new employment.\u00a0 Although the number of workers involved was very small, the impact of their \u2018defection\u2019 was huge.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, this was a fascinating presentation, delivered in an accessible manner by a speaker who had thoroughly researched her topic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman Ray Porter opened the Society\u2019s February meeting by welcoming visitors and new members, detailing the outing to the National Memorial Arboretum and St Giles\u2019 Church, Cheadle on 25th April, inviting members and friends to the Social on 15th May, promoting Don Freeth\u2019s War Memorial book and advertising the ramble to Leasowes Park on 15th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}