The story of an enterprise started by the Quakers in Brynmawr in south Wales in the 1920s. This former coal-mining town was amongst the worst hit by the Depression. In 1928 the Quakers started a settlement there, and decided that what the town needed most Y more than education Y was work. They took over disused factories and started a boot-mending business, and a furniture workshop.
Mary Wiliam Boeken


The first study of the pioneer of open-air museums in Britain, putting his work as scholar and curator into the international context of the twentieth century. Extensive synopsis and translations from Welsh makes Peate's work accessible to an entirely new audience.