#SWOS20

SteelworksHistory

ConsettWorks

1/15 At over 900ft above sea level, perched on a fellside in a landlocked corner of north west Co. Durham, the town of Consett is not the most likely of

Dafydd Wiliam

SF_adeiladau

1/14 In 2012 Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales was offered and accepted The Vulcan Hotel public house for re-erection @StFagans_Museum #SWOS20 2/14 The Vulcan Inn was first licenced as

Louise Miskell

louisemiskell

1/14 Hello, I’m Louise Miskell, historian and PI on the Social Worlds of Steel project @SwanseaUni. I’ve been researching the social world of the workplace and asking: How did workers

Dr Ashley Morgan

DrAshleyMorgan1

This paper is dedicated to Donna Campbell who was a Healthcare Support worker in Cardiff. Donna died of Covid-19 on 10th of April. She was two years above me in

Erik Eklund

ErikEklund10

1/15 Thanks @louisemiskell ! I will be looking at Port Kembla; an industrial town in New South Wales, Australia. I am returning to research I did 20 years ago preparing

Lachlan MacKinnon

LachlanMacKinn

1/16 Cape Breton Island, on Canada's east coast, has a history of coal extraction dating back to the French presence at Louisbourg. Its collieries became some of the largest producers

OldRailwayAccidents

RWLDproject

Sneaking in a little #SWOS2020 project thread - on UK railways, accidents & steel!Hopefully you won't mind being Twitterbombed?As several papers so far have shown, transport was crucial to the

Dr Hilary Orange

HilaryOrange

Hello. In the Ruhr region, once the heartland of Germany’s coal & steel industries, light art is installed at many former industrial sites, including at ironworks & steelworks. In this

Christopher Lawson

ChristopherL_TO

1/15 Hello! I’m a PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley, finishing up my thesis on deindustrialisation & its impact on communities across the UK. Motherwell had been at the centre of

Fjordr

FjordrInfo

1/20 Good afternoon. I’m Antony Firth and I’m going to tweet about ‘Steel on the Seabed’. I’ll be referencing work with @HistoricEngland @HE_Maritime @Honor_Frost @SouterNT @HeritageFundNE @CITiZAN @IoSIFCA @TynetoTees @ukchp.

Gethin Matthews - tweets on WW1 memorials in Wales

WelshMemorials

‘Commemorations in Steel’ #SWOS20 Hi – I am Dr Gethin Matthews, a senior lecturer @SwanseaHistory, and I am particularly interested in war memorials in Wales – I ran a project

Matthew Bristow

eric_180uk

1/19 Thanks @louisemiskell and @steelworlds for having me. I'm Matt Bristow and I'm a landscape archaeologist and local historian. I split my time between the @VCH_London at the @ihr_history and

Sarah May

Sarah_May1

1/15 Hi! I’ve really enjoyed all the papers this morning, and feel a bit nervous because I’m just beginning my work on this, so I’ve more questions than answers. I’m

Katy Whitaker

artefactual_KW

Prompted by @Steelworlds #SWOS20 twitter conference and an expression of interest from @Rebecca52731232 here is a short thread illustrating some of the steely #Aerofilms Collection images from @HE_Archive. (I'll

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