The Day the BAAS Came to Swansea: 1848 and All That

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In August 1848 the British Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting in Swansea – the first time the association had met in Wales. Professor Iwan Morus, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, will be giving a public lecture about this important event on Thursday 2 July at Swansea University.

The two decades before 1848 had been ones of enormous political and economic turmoil in Wales as towns like Swansea expanded and industrialized, and new elites came to dominate the local and national stage.  When the BAAS came to Swansea, they came to a town in transition.

In this lecture Professor Morus looks at that meeting from a number of perspectives, exploring what it meant to different people. 1848, of course, was a year of revolutions and almost revolutions across Europe. Did the BAAS’s visit to a provincial Welsh town mark some sort of revolution too?

The lecture is part of the British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference 2015.

  • The Day the BAAS Came to Swansea: 1848 and All That
  • Faraday Lecture Theatre, Swansea University SA2 8PP
  • Thursday 2 July, 5.00-6.30 pm
  • All welcome