Mesters to Masters A History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire

by Binfield, Clyde; Hey, David

• ISBN13: 9780198289975
• ISBN10: 0198289979
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Founded in 1624, the Cutlers' Company of Hallamshire has played a crucial role in the history of Sheffield, as supervisor and regulator of cutlery and steel trades in "the steel capital of the world." This book, written by noted scholars and experts, provides a history of the company and its activities.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	xi	(1)
List of Plates	xii	(3)
List of Figures	xv	(1)
List of Tables	xvi	(1)
Map of Hallamshire	xvii
Introduction: The Cutlers' Company and the Town	1	(11)
Clyde Binfield
David Hey
1. The Establishment of the Cutlers' Company	12	(14)
David Hey
2. The Company, its Freemen, and its Apprentices, 1624-1860	26	(14)
David Hey
Joan Unwin
3. The Marks of the Freemen of the Cutlers' Company, 1624-1791	40	(10)
Joan Unwin
4. Early Economic Ventures of the Company	50	(13)
Sidney Pollard
5. Steelmakers as Masters Cutler: A Look at a Sheffield Industrial Elite	63	(22)
Geoffrey Tweedale
6. `Made in Sheffield': Trade Marks, the Cutlers' Company, and the Defence of `Sheffield'	85	(30)
David M. Higgins
7. An Architectural History of the Cutlers' Hall	115	(47)
Roger Harper
8. Paintings, Sculptures, and Furniture in the Cutlers' Hall	162	(16)
Susan Graves
Julie Goddard
9. The Silver Collection and the Assay Office	178	(17)
Trevor Brighton
Jackie Richardson
10. The Cutlery Collection in the Cutlers' Hall	195	(22)
Simon Moore
Geoffrey Tweedale
11. The Archives of the Cutlers' Company	217	(8)
Julie MacDonald
12. The Cutlers' Feast	225	(16)
Julie MacDonald
13. The Company and the Community: Charity, Education, and Technology, 1624-1914	241	(18)
John Roach
14. The Company and the Community: Charity, Education, and Technology, 1914-1994	259	(25)
John Roach
15. The Cutlers' Company and the Churches	284	(28)
Clyde Binfield
16. Into the Next Century	312	(5)
Raymond A. Douglas
Appendix: Masters Cutler, 1624-1996	317	(6)
Index	323