We are pleased to announce that Joerg Arnold has obtained £4500 in funding for an international symposium on the end of coal. This international symposium will bring together historians, sociologists and museum curators from across Europe working on coal mining past and present in the UK, Germany, Poland and China, to examine the end of coal in Western Europe and to consider the future of coal both as ‘heritage’ and as a fossil fuel that still provides much of the world’s energy needs today.
The symposium will take place in June 2016 at Highfiled House.The symposium will conclude with an (optional) visit to the National Coal Mining Museum for England in Wakefield, organised in collaboration with Dr David Amos. The project will establish a cross-disciplinary collaborative partnership of scholars with related research interests to form an international network, able to respond to UK and European research opportunities.
Joerg has also had an article published in Managed Decline"? Zur Diskussion um die Zukunft Liverpoosl im ersten Kabinett Thatcher (1979-1981), in: Informationen zur modernen Stadtgeschichte 1/2015, S. 139-154.
Posted on Saturday 24th February 2018