The Smelting Pot | Learn about Swansea and the Copper Industry
The learning team at National Waterfront Museum are always trying to help assist learners and teaching professionals to learn more about Welsh history and now they are creating audio recordings that go through the story of smelting copper in Swansea. The recordings can be found here or on Spotify. Be sure to look at the Learn pages for the National Waterfront Museum for learning resources.
The Smelting Pot | Episode One | What is Copper and why Swansea became Copperopolis
Join Leisa and Rebecca from the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, to learn about what copper is and why Swansea became known as Copperopolis.
Find out more about daily life in Swansea in 1851 here
The Smelting Pot | Episode Two | The White Rock Copper Works and its Legacy
In this episode Leisa and Rebecca talk about their visit to the remains of one of the earliest Copper Works in Swansea, The White Rock Copper Works. They discuss its founders, how it benefitted from the trade in enslaved people and its environmental legacy.
The Smelting Pot | Episode Three | The Vivians
In this episode Leisa and Rebecca dive into the stories of the copperworks owners, focusing on perhaps the most well known industrial family in Swansea, the Vivians.
Curriculum
HUMANITIES | Enquiry, exploration and investigation inspire curiosity about the world, its past, present and future.
The learners’ journey through this Area will encourage enquiry and discovery, as they are challenged to be curious and to question, to think critically and to reflect upon evidence. An enquiring mind stimulates new and creative thinking, through which learners can gain a deeper understanding of the concepts underpinning humanities, and their application in local, national and global contexts. Such thinking can help learners to understand human experiences and the natural world better.
