AHRC-funded research project based at Swansea University investigating the impact of the steel industry on people and communities in twentieth-century Wales.
Jul 1, 2020 • 16 tweets • 8 min read
Hello. This thread investigates the impact of industrial closure on the meaning of place through the case study of the Bilston Steel Works, a small town in the Black Country conurbation of the West Midlands, during the 1970s to its eventual closure in May 1980. #SWOS20 1/15
Moving beyond retrospective remembering of deindustrialisation, the thread captures the immediate lived experience of industrial decline. The focus is on the changing meanings of place and the relative speed at which a politics of nostalgia entrenched itself. #SWOS20 2/15
