Gillian Cookson

Gillian Cookson FRHS is an English historian of the University of Leeds. She was awarded a PhD in 1994 by the University of York for her thesis titled "The West Yorkshire textile engineering industry, 1780-1850".¹

Cookson researches in economic history, the 18th and 19th-century industrial history of Northern England, the history of mechanical engineering and textiles, industrial communities and business networks and landscape history.² She is president of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society.

• 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)