We are pleased to share that Catherine Mills and the University of Stirling have been awarded £63,784.00 by The National Heritage Lottery Fund https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/ to create the eco-museum and a big thank you goes to the National Lottery Players for making it happen. An Eco-museum has no walls or shelving but is based on a
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Landscape Legacies of Coal began back in 2018 as a small self-contained project commissioned by the Macrobert Art Centre https://macrobertartscentre.org/ at the University of Stirling to support a community heritage initiative based around the theme of coal. The project explored the landscape history of two former colliery sites, the Devon at Fishcross, Clackmannanshire and Polmaise 3 &
I am a PhD student exploring how miners, and their families, represented their landscape (predominantly) through poetry. I will investigate depictions of the place of mining, the site itself, its situation within the local landscape and how it has changed in response to progression and decline of the industry. I intend to invite former miners
We launched the Coal App in April 2019 and looking back over the past 18 months of operation, the extent to which it has evolved and developed has been remarkable. It began as a self-contained project commissioned by the Macrobert Art Centre at the University of Stirling to support their community heritage initiative based around the theme of
