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Peter Stead
Speaker's BiographyProfessor Peter Stead was born in Barry and educated at Barry and Gowerton Grammar Schools. He graduated in Swansea University with a First in History in 1964 and became a lecturer in the Department in 1966. He spent two years on Fulbrights in the USA, at Wellesley College, Mass 1973/74 and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, 1988/89. After retiring from Swansea in 1997 he became a Visiting Professor at the then University of Glamorgan. He was a frequent broadcaster for the BBC and the author of books on the history of Coleg Harlech, on Film and the Working Class and on Welsh Actors as well as studies of Dennis Potter and Richard Burton. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, a Hon. Fellow both of Swansea University and the University of Wales, Trinity, St David's, He founded the International Dylan Thomas Prize of which he is now President.
From: 1 Dec 2020, 2:30 p.m.To: 1 Dec 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Location: Orangery, Margam Park, SA13 2TJ, Port Talbot
Having lived all his life beside the Bristol Channel, Professor Stead was always fascinated by the industrial hinterland of which his parents were natives. When he joined the History Department at Swansea University he came under the influence of two professors who made it clear that an essential part of his career should be devoted to communicating with the adult education classes and culture of the wider community in Wales. At the same time he was being taught by lecturers who were fascinated by the political programmes and values that had been generated by that society. An academic career then was to be forged both in the classroom and on the road. Such was the very nature of Swansea University in those years.
Contact: South Wales Miners' Library (Email: miners@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792 518603
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