Swansea University historian interested in towns and industries from eighteenth to twentieth centuries, especially communities built around copper and steel.
Jul 1, 2020 • 15 tweets • 8 min read
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 cope with the hot, noisy and sometimes dangerous environment of a steelworks? #SWOS20
2/14 Their physical experiences of work often went unrecorded in official records but oral testimony, memoir and visual material is full of sensory detail of the heat, scale, noise and danger they encountered. I’ll be using some of these sources in my talk today. #SWOS20