Ceramics in a Changing World
18th to 20th Century Revolutions

NCS Summer Seminar 2025

 

Programme

 

Presentations

Gaye Blake Roberts
Wedgwood and three faces of revolution
&
Coalport; Changes in taste and industry in the first half of the 19th century

Robin Emmerson
Country Pottery and the
Craft Revolution 1870-1930
&
The State Porcelain Factory and the
Russian Revolution 1917-1932

Miranda Goodby
Porcelain comes to Staffordshire
&
“Yours in the Bonds of Union”
The Rise of the Unions in the Staffordshire Potteries

George Haggarty
Evidence for the development of a Scottish refined ceramic industry, Alva cobalt, XRF analysis and West Pans Porcelain

Pat Halfpenny
Towards an understanding of bone china

Deborah Skinner
Stone China and Ironstone China: A Marketing Masterstroke from the Potteries

 

And
closing with an auction of pieces
brought by members of the seminar

Venue

Residential  details

The seminar will be held at
The Hilton Garden Inn, Stoke-on-Trent

Accommodation, dining room and conference facilities
are all under one roof.