Dr Bethan Scorey
@bethanscorey.bsky.social
/Architectural Historian interested in the Welsh country house and garden
/PhD on St Fagans Castle from the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates
/Resident Building Historian for Cartrefi Cymru on S4C Clic & BBC iPlayer
/www.bethanscorey.com
/PhD on St Fagans Castle from the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates
/Resident Building Historian for Cartrefi Cymru on S4C Clic & BBC iPlayer
/www.bethanscorey.com
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🎂 Happy birthday to William Burges (1827 – 1881)! A visionary architect of the Victorian Gothic Revival, Burges reshaped Victorian design.
St Mary's church, Studley Royal (James Hughes)
Christ the Consoler, Skelton (James Hughes)
Worcester College chapel Oxford. (Morgan Ellis Leah)
#architect
St Mary's church, Studley Royal (James Hughes)
Christ the Consoler, Skelton (James Hughes)
Worcester College chapel Oxford. (Morgan Ellis Leah)
#architect
December 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🎂 Happy birthday to William Burges (1827 – 1881)! A visionary architect of the Victorian Gothic Revival, Burges reshaped Victorian design.
St Mary's church, Studley Royal (James Hughes)
Christ the Consoler, Skelton (James Hughes)
Worcester College chapel Oxford. (Morgan Ellis Leah)
#architect
St Mary's church, Studley Royal (James Hughes)
Christ the Consoler, Skelton (James Hughes)
Worcester College chapel Oxford. (Morgan Ellis Leah)
#architect
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'Sidney Colwyn Foulkes: The Architecture of a Reluctant Modernist' by Adam Voelcker is out now!
This is the first study of the work of architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884–1971), one of Britain’s most significant regional architects.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/sidney-...
This is the first study of the work of architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884–1971), one of Britain’s most significant regional architects.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/sidney-...
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
'Sidney Colwyn Foulkes: The Architecture of a Reluctant Modernist' by Adam Voelcker is out now!
This is the first study of the work of architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884–1971), one of Britain’s most significant regional architects.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/sidney-...
This is the first study of the work of architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884–1971), one of Britain’s most significant regional architects.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/sidney-...
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Is it too early to mention…our Christmas lecture?🎅
Join us in person or online on Thursday 4 December, 5pm for a whistlestop tour ‘From Air, Land and Sea’ charting the discoveries and survey work undertaken by our investigators in 2025. Book online now:zurl.co/GaqH7
Join us in person or online on Thursday 4 December, 5pm for a whistlestop tour ‘From Air, Land and Sea’ charting the discoveries and survey work undertaken by our investigators in 2025. Book online now:zurl.co/GaqH7
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Is it too early to mention…our Christmas lecture?🎅
Join us in person or online on Thursday 4 December, 5pm for a whistlestop tour ‘From Air, Land and Sea’ charting the discoveries and survey work undertaken by our investigators in 2025. Book online now:zurl.co/GaqH7
Join us in person or online on Thursday 4 December, 5pm for a whistlestop tour ‘From Air, Land and Sea’ charting the discoveries and survey work undertaken by our investigators in 2025. Book online now:zurl.co/GaqH7
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Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
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Join Llafur, in collaboration with the Cyfarthfa Foundation, to explore the rich history of Merthyr and the next steps in the story of its heritage.
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Join Llafur, in collaboration with the Cyfarthfa Foundation, to explore the rich history of Merthyr and the next steps in the story of its heritage.
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
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Finishing touches under way for my talk on Percy Thomas's interwar modern classicism at the Lutyens Trust conference on 1 November. #20s30s www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-it...
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Finishing touches under way for my talk on Percy Thomas's interwar modern classicism at the Lutyens Trust conference on 1 November. #20s30s www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-it...
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Honoured to be invited to share my work as the guest speaker at @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Archives and Special Collections Lecture.
November 12
17:30 -18:30
See you there!
I am thankful for all the support I have received from the BUASC staff and @ystadaucymru.bsky.social.
November 12
17:30 -18:30
See you there!
I am thankful for all the support I have received from the BUASC staff and @ystadaucymru.bsky.social.
Challenging time(s): Exploring how we shape the past and future of Eryri through the exchange of material culture, Alex Ioannou
The first Annual Archives and Special Collections Lecture was delivered by Professor Owen Dudley Edwar
www.bangor.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Honoured to be invited to share my work as the guest speaker at @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Archives and Special Collections Lecture.
November 12
17:30 -18:30
See you there!
I am thankful for all the support I have received from the BUASC staff and @ystadaucymru.bsky.social.
November 12
17:30 -18:30
See you there!
I am thankful for all the support I have received from the BUASC staff and @ystadaucymru.bsky.social.
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Excellent to see this campaign to save Capel Rhondda, #Pontypridd
Campaign to save Cwm Rhondda chapel for community www.bbc.com/news/article...
Campaign to save Cwm Rhondda chapel for community www.bbc.com/news/article...
Campaign to save Cwm Rhondda chapel for community
A campaign to save the chapel has raised almost half the funds needed after just four days.
www.bbc.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Excellent to see this campaign to save Capel Rhondda, #Pontypridd
Campaign to save Cwm Rhondda chapel for community www.bbc.com/news/article...
Campaign to save Cwm Rhondda chapel for community www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Huge congratulations to ISWE’s @bethanscorey.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD thesis earlier today! Bethan’s thesis is a wonderfully expansive architectural history of St Fagans Castle, examined by Dr Ruth Larsen (Derby) & Dr Euryn Roberts (Bangor).
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Dr Scorey!!
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Dr Scorey!!
June 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Huge congratulations to ISWE’s @bethanscorey.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD thesis earlier today! Bethan’s thesis is a wonderfully expansive architectural history of St Fagans Castle, examined by Dr Ruth Larsen (Derby) & Dr Euryn Roberts (Bangor).
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Dr Scorey!!
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Dr Scorey!!
Recently had the pleasure of visiting the ‘No Welsh Art’ exhibition at NLW and the chance to chat with its curator Peter Lord. Read my report for ISWE here…
New blog by @bethanscorey.bsky.social on Peter Lord’s ‘No Welsh Art’ exhibition at @librarywales.bsky.social, focusing especially on the role of the gentry as patrons for Welsh visual culture:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/no...
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/no...
June 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Recently had the pleasure of visiting the ‘No Welsh Art’ exhibition at NLW and the chance to chat with its curator Peter Lord. Read my report for ISWE here…
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Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865
Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL
#Wales
Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865
Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL
#Wales
May 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865
Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL
#Wales
Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865
Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL
#Wales
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Galw am ddiogelu adran archifau Prifysgol Bangor
Mae’r adran yn rhan o ymgynghoriad i dorri 78 o swyddi mewn ymgais i arbed gwerth £5.3m
Mae’r adran yn rhan o ymgynghoriad i dorri 78 o swyddi mewn ymgais i arbed gwerth £5.3m
Galw am ddiogelu adran archifau Prifysgol Bangor
Mae’r adran yn rhan o ymgynghoriad i dorri 78 o swyddi mewn ymgais i arbed gwerth £5.3m
golwg.360.cymru
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Galw am ddiogelu adran archifau Prifysgol Bangor
Mae’r adran yn rhan o ymgynghoriad i dorri 78 o swyddi mewn ymgais i arbed gwerth £5.3m
Mae’r adran yn rhan o ymgynghoriad i dorri 78 o swyddi mewn ymgais i arbed gwerth £5.3m
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Dr Marian Gwyn, promoting the petition to save Bangor University Archives and Special Collections at our National Library of Wales earlier today.
Please support: www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch!
@archpbu.bsky.social
Please support: www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch!
@archpbu.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Dr Marian Gwyn, promoting the petition to save Bangor University Archives and Special Collections at our National Library of Wales earlier today.
Please support: www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch!
@archpbu.bsky.social
Please support: www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch!
@archpbu.bsky.social
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A kind request to sign the petition to show support and solidarity with the Archives Team at the University of Bangor.
The knowledge, skills and amazing resource is under direct threat of being lost due to proposed cuts.
Help save our archives!
The knowledge, skills and amazing resource is under direct threat of being lost due to proposed cuts.
Help save our archives!
SAVE YOUR ARCHIVE / ACHUBWCH EICH ARCHIFDY
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
May 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
A kind request to sign the petition to show support and solidarity with the Archives Team at the University of Bangor.
The knowledge, skills and amazing resource is under direct threat of being lost due to proposed cuts.
Help save our archives!
The knowledge, skills and amazing resource is under direct threat of being lost due to proposed cuts.
Help save our archives!
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Lovely to see so many intelligent references to Sadie’s book in the ‘Wales & Europe in the Renaissance’ essays that I’m in the middle of marking. Doctoral research undertaken at Bangor informing how our undergraduates think about the history of Wales
@bangorhistory.bsky.social
@bangorhistory.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Lovely to see so many intelligent references to Sadie’s book in the ‘Wales & Europe in the Renaissance’ essays that I’m in the middle of marking. Doctoral research undertaken at Bangor informing how our undergraduates think about the history of Wales
@bangorhistory.bsky.social
@bangorhistory.bsky.social
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📢 Announcing #Cambrians Walks and Talks 2025!
We have an amazing lineup of walks (free, led by experts) including Dinefwr (10 May), upland Blaenau Gwent (15 June), Llangollen Denbighshire (29 June), Hillfort at Moel Fenlli (9 Aug), and historic Bangor (16 Aug)! 😀
Info and booking: bit.ly/4ckpOAy
We have an amazing lineup of walks (free, led by experts) including Dinefwr (10 May), upland Blaenau Gwent (15 June), Llangollen Denbighshire (29 June), Hillfort at Moel Fenlli (9 Aug), and historic Bangor (16 Aug)! 😀
Info and booking: bit.ly/4ckpOAy
April 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
📢 Announcing #Cambrians Walks and Talks 2025!
We have an amazing lineup of walks (free, led by experts) including Dinefwr (10 May), upland Blaenau Gwent (15 June), Llangollen Denbighshire (29 June), Hillfort at Moel Fenlli (9 Aug), and historic Bangor (16 Aug)! 😀
Info and booking: bit.ly/4ckpOAy
We have an amazing lineup of walks (free, led by experts) including Dinefwr (10 May), upland Blaenau Gwent (15 June), Llangollen Denbighshire (29 June), Hillfort at Moel Fenlli (9 Aug), and historic Bangor (16 Aug)! 😀
Info and booking: bit.ly/4ckpOAy
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Really looking forward to this tomorrow evening. Hope you’re able to join us! All welcome!
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Really looking forward to this tomorrow evening. Hope you’re able to join us! All welcome!
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
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'This is a book essential for the record of architecture in Wales in the twentieth century.'
An excellent review of 'Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service' by @rproctor.bsky.social in Touchstone.
Discover more about 'Percy Thomas', publishing in May www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...
An excellent review of 'Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service' by @rproctor.bsky.social in Touchstone.
Discover more about 'Percy Thomas', publishing in May www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...
March 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
'This is a book essential for the record of architecture in Wales in the twentieth century.'
An excellent review of 'Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service' by @rproctor.bsky.social in Touchstone.
Discover more about 'Percy Thomas', publishing in May www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...
An excellent review of 'Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service' by @rproctor.bsky.social in Touchstone.
Discover more about 'Percy Thomas', publishing in May www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...
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📢 Join C20 Cymru in Monmouthshire!
Saturday 26 April
We'll visit The Savoy Theatre for a talk on C20 theatres by Rob Firman, then go to High Glanau Manor, built for Henry Avray Tipping, editor of Country Life. We’ll have a tour of the Arts and Crafts gardens, followed by cream tea 🫖
bitly.cx/YmUA4
Saturday 26 April
We'll visit The Savoy Theatre for a talk on C20 theatres by Rob Firman, then go to High Glanau Manor, built for Henry Avray Tipping, editor of Country Life. We’ll have a tour of the Arts and Crafts gardens, followed by cream tea 🫖
bitly.cx/YmUA4
March 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
📢 Join C20 Cymru in Monmouthshire!
Saturday 26 April
We'll visit The Savoy Theatre for a talk on C20 theatres by Rob Firman, then go to High Glanau Manor, built for Henry Avray Tipping, editor of Country Life. We’ll have a tour of the Arts and Crafts gardens, followed by cream tea 🫖
bitly.cx/YmUA4
Saturday 26 April
We'll visit The Savoy Theatre for a talk on C20 theatres by Rob Firman, then go to High Glanau Manor, built for Henry Avray Tipping, editor of Country Life. We’ll have a tour of the Arts and Crafts gardens, followed by cream tea 🫖
bitly.cx/YmUA4
Mae Cartrefi Cymru yn ôl heno! Our tv programme about Welsh houses, Cartrefi Cymru, resumes tonight at 8.25pm on S4C. In episode 6 we’ll be looking at houses from the 1920s and 1930s, so expect garden villages and Art Deco!
February 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Mae Cartrefi Cymru yn ôl heno! Our tv programme about Welsh houses, Cartrefi Cymru, resumes tonight at 8.25pm on S4C. In episode 6 we’ll be looking at houses from the 1920s and 1930s, so expect garden villages and Art Deco!
Great afternoon at Margam Castle for the launch of the wonderful M[AR]GAM app, which allows users to explore the long-lost Library and Dining Room. Congratulations to all involved! @swanseauni.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Great afternoon at Margam Castle for the launch of the wonderful M[AR]GAM app, which allows users to explore the long-lost Library and Dining Room. Congratulations to all involved! @swanseauni.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social