European Travellers to Wales

Contributor(s) Organisations

Rita Singer(Speaker)
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

Date	10 Mar 2022
Type(s)	Invited talk

Links	Links Llafur begins its online Spring Series of 2022 with an exploration of how Welsh communities have been visited by people from across the country, and further afield, since the eighteenth century. Through this lens of travel, we can further uncover the ways the Welsh landscape has been transformed as a result of industrialisation, and how a continuing curiosity has translated into current heritage projects that shine an important light on hidden Welsh histories. To discuss this subject, join us and our guest speakers, Rita Singer, Nathan Abrams and Catrin Stevens, as we begin our journey through the subject of heritage, landscape and tourism. A recording of the three contributions to the event.

Links

Llafur begins its online Spring Series of 2022 with an exploration of how Welsh communities have been visited by people from across the country, and further afield, since the eighteenth century. Through this lens of travel, we can further uncover the ways the Welsh landscape has been transformed as a result of industrialisation, and how a continuing curiosity has translated into current heritage projects that shine an important light on hidden Welsh histories. To discuss this subject, join us and our guest speakers, Rita Singer, Nathan Abrams and Catrin Stevens, as we begin our journey through the subject of heritage, landscape and tourism.
A recording of the three contributions to the event.

Description

This talk recounts visits by European travellers to Welsh estates and the surrounding areas, focusing on the emergence of these locations as tourism spots as early as two hundred years ago. In addition, historic travel accounts by European trallers also contain descriptions of visits to sites of industrial production as locations that provided an onslaught on all senses, much like modern adventure tourism in Wales.