Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting but please forward as wished.
Yesterday Swansea Council and Swansea University signed a significant
agreement to work together to give a future to the endangered
copperworks sites still left in the lower Swansea valley, particularly
those around the Hafod Works. The story is covered here on the BBC
site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-12241228
Prof. Huw Bowen with whom I am working on the ESRC Global and Local
Worlds of Welsh Copper project is leading efforts for a heritage-led
regeneration of these sites of international significance. There is a
long way to go but we hope that the project will raise much needed
awareness amongst people in politics, business, culture, heritage,
education and beyond of the importance of the heritage in copper in
Wales, and more importantly, the connections it has with other
industrial regions in Cornwall/West Devon, Anglesey, Ireland, south
Australia, south Africa, Chile, Cuba and beyond with similarly rich
copper histories.
List members might also be interested in the city-wide festival of
copper we are organising in Swansea, Copper Day, on Saturday 5 March
2011, a day of free events, activities, talks and tours:
http://www.copperday.org.uk/ for more information.
Follow project progress on http://twitter.com/copperhistories
With best wishes,
Tehmina
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Dr Tehmina Goskar, MA AMA
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http://tehmina.goskar.com/
Research Officer: ESRC History, Heritage, and Urban Regeneration: The
Global and Local Worlds of Welsh Copper
History & Classics
Swansea University
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