History & Heritage
Friday 7th September
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9:00
Brian McMillan
Society of Glass Technology
Presidential Address
Session 1: Heritage Glassmaking
9:40
Reiner Meindl
Glashutte Lamberts Waldsassen GmbH
Manufacturing of mouth blown glass
10:20
Marie-Helene Chopinet
Saint-Gobain
Lucien Delloye or how a mechanical engineer of the 19th Century "reigned" over the whole Continental Glass Industry during 34 years
11:00
COFFEE
Session 2: Heritage artifacts
11:20
John Smith
Glass Circle
Tiffany Glass at the turn of the 20th Century
12:00
Richard Giles
Fantasy in Glass- The Paperweight Story
12:40
Ian Hankey
Plymouth College of Art Looking to the past for a sustainable future
13:00
LUNCH
Session 3: Architectural Stained Glass
14:00
Martin Crampin
University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
Stained glass in Wales
14:40
Fernando Quintas
Lisbon
Stained Glass in Portugal: memory, tradition and new challenges for the future
15:20
Jon and Ruth Cooke
Jonathan & Ruth Cooke Ltd, Stained Glass Conservation & Restoration
Revelations: Re-creation of the Heavenly City
16:00
COFFEE
Session 4: Glass - A Living Heritage
16:20
Russell Hand
Immobilisation Science Laboratory, University of Sheffield Glass durability in water: A challenge for archaeology, museum conservation and nuclear waste immobilisation
17:00
John Parker
University of Sheffield
Why you should visit the Turner Museum!
17:40
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