'Steelmakers as master cutlers. A look at a Sheffield industrial elite' in C Binfield & D Hey (eds), Mesters to Masters. A history of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire

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Analyses the careers of Sheffield steelmasters who served as Master Cutlers, 1863-1990s, in a period when steelmakers overtook cutlers as the elite in both the Company and in Sheffield. Analyses their backgrounds in terms of politics, religion, education, the businesses with which they were connected, the nature of the output of these businesses, etc