@bethanscorey
/Architectural Historian interested in the Welsh country house and garden /PhD on St Fagans Castle from the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates /Resident Building Historian for Cartrefi Cymru on S4C Clic & BBC iPlayer /www.bethanscorey.com
‘Historically, architecturally and scenically, Nannau really matters’: Thomas Lloyd
Nannau in The Georgian Group’s top 10 heritage buildings at risk list
Read more here:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/na...
🎙️ “My biggest passion, that started while I was working for the National Trust, is: how do we tell the stories that aren't being told?”
For Radical Museums, Sharon Heal speaks to Marian Gwyn on her work to diversify heritage practices throughout her 30-year career: https://ow.ly/P9cV50XSpOm
Huge congratulations to Dr @bethanscorey.bsky.social on her graduation at Bangor University today!
Bethan produced a wonderful thesis on ‘St Fagans Castle: its Architectural and Landscape History’. She is ISWE’s 6th doctoral graduate.
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Bethan - we’re all really proud of you!
Cae Bricks estate, Beaumaris - terrace running down hill and view of Menai Straits and north Wales mountains
Elwy Road Estate, Rhos on Sea; red brick offset corner house and white-rendered terrace
🚨 New post. You may not have heard of Sidney Colwyn Foulkes but he was one of Britain’s most significant regional architects and the designer of some of its finest council housing. Adam Voelcker recounts his life and work.
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🎂 Happy birthday to William Burges (1827 – 1881)! A visionary architect of the Victorian Gothic Revival, Burges reshaped Victorian design.
St Mary's church, Studley Royal (James Hughes)
Christ the Consoler, Skelton (James Hughes)
Worcester College chapel Oxford. (Morgan Ellis Leah)
#architect
'Sidney Colwyn Foulkes: The Architecture of a Reluctant Modernist' by Adam Voelcker is out now!
This is the first study of the work of architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884–1971), one of Britain’s most significant regional architects.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/sidney-...
Is it too early to mention…our Christmas lecture?🎅
Join us in person or online on Thursday 4 December, 5pm for a whistlestop tour ‘From Air, Land and Sea’ charting the discoveries and survey work undertaken by our investigators in 2025. Book online now:zurl.co/GaqH7
Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
Join Llafur, in collaboration with the Cyfarthfa Foundation, to explore the rich history of Merthyr and the next steps in the story of its heritage.
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
Two soaring fluted piers of black marble looking vertically up to a coffered ceiling with decoration picked out in gold and green and a round spiky light shade.
Finishing touches under way for my talk on Percy Thomas's interwar modern classicism at the Lutyens Trust conference on 1 November. #20s30s www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-it...
Honoured to be invited to share my work as the guest speaker at @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Archives and Special Collections Lecture.
November 12
17:30 -18:30
See you there!
I am thankful for all the support I have received from the BUASC staff and @ystadaucymru.bsky.social.
Excellent to see this campaign to save Capel Rhondda, #Pontypridd
Campaign to save Cwm Rhondda chapel for community www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huge congratulations to ISWE’s @bethanscorey.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD thesis earlier today! Bethan’s thesis is a wonderfully expansive architectural history of St Fagans Castle, examined by Dr Ruth Larsen (Derby) & Dr Euryn Roberts (Bangor).
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Dr Scorey!!
Recently had the pleasure of visiting the ‘No Welsh Art’ exhibition at NLW and the chance to chat with its curator Peter Lord. Read my report for ISWE here…
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865
Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL
#Wales
Galw am ddiogelu adran archifau Prifysgol Bangor
Mae’r adran yn rhan o ymgynghoriad i dorri 78 o swyddi mewn ymgais i arbed gwerth £5.3m
Dr Marian Gwyn, promoting the petition to save Bangor University Archives and Special Collections at our National Library of Wales earlier today.
Please support: www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch!
@archpbu.bsky.social
A kind request to sign the petition to show support and solidarity with the Archives Team at the University of Bangor.
The knowledge, skills and amazing resource is under direct threat of being lost due to proposed cuts.
Help save our archives!
Lovely to see so many intelligent references to Sadie’s book in the ‘Wales & Europe in the Renaissance’ essays that I’m in the middle of marking. Doctoral research undertaken at Bangor informing how our undergraduates think about the history of Wales
@bangorhistory.bsky.social
📢 Announcing #Cambrians Walks and Talks 2025!
We have an amazing lineup of walks (free, led by experts) including Dinefwr (10 May), upland Blaenau Gwent (15 June), Llangollen Denbighshire (29 June), Hillfort at Moel Fenlli (9 Aug), and historic Bangor (16 Aug)! 😀
Info and booking: bit.ly/4ckpOAy
Really looking forward to this tomorrow evening. Hope you’re able to join us! All welcome!
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
Percy Thomas book cover featuring a photo of the Temple of Peace in Cardiff.
'This is a book essential for the record of architecture in Wales in the twentieth century.'
An excellent review of 'Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service' by @rproctor.bsky.social in Touchstone.
Discover more about 'Percy Thomas', publishing in May www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...
📢 Join C20 Cymru in Monmouthshire!
Saturday 26 April
We'll visit The Savoy Theatre for a talk on C20 theatres by Rob Firman, then go to High Glanau Manor, built for Henry Avray Tipping, editor of Country Life. We’ll have a tour of the Arts and Crafts gardens, followed by cream tea 🫖
bitly.cx/YmUA4
Mae Cartrefi Cymru yn ôl heno! Our tv programme about Welsh houses, Cartrefi Cymru, resumes tonight at 8.25pm on S4C. In episode 6 we’ll be looking at houses from the 1920s and 1930s, so expect garden villages and Art Deco!
Great afternoon at Margam Castle for the launch of the wonderful M[AR]GAM app, which allows users to explore the long-lost Library and Dining Room. Congratulations to all involved! @swanseauni.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social
