Swansea’s Royal Institution and Wales’s First Museum

Helen Hallesy is a science graduate and independent researcher on the history of the south Wales ceramic industries, focusing primarily on Swansea. She is the author of several books and articles on the subject, including, most recently, Swansea Commemorative Pottery. She is a long-standing Council member and Honorary Vice President of RISW. Gerald Gabb taught history before becoming an education officer for the Swansea Museums Service. He is a RISW Council member and editor of the Swansea History Journal Minerva since 2009. He has written extensively on the locality, most recently publishing Swansea and its History, II, The Riverside Town in 2019.