Congratulations Chester on 2017 European Access City award - ARCHWAY bears fruit

Derry meeting Chester

great report BBC about on Chester http://bbc.in/2iXOxj6
The walls feature prominently and Chester's investment in accessibility since 2009 - the follow up to the successful WTFC ARCHWAY project which Chester led. Other partners included Lucca, den Bosch, Valletta, Vittoria (ARABARRI) and University of West of England, Bristol.
Full reports are available here.

European Walled Towns Berwick-upon-Tweed 16th October 2013

Berwick-upon-Tweed, bridgehead town - outpost

Meg's Mount

Berwick-Upon-Tweed  History Society and Civic Society held a joint meeting  in the Parish Church Centre, on 'European Walled Towns', at which I presented a paper based on the presentation linked here and the abstract below:

ARABARRI

ARABARRI,  now rebranded as ARABAKO LANAK, S.A.U is the management company for historic towns of Alava [L-nk currently unavailable] in Spain. 
All  are EWT member Towns in the Basque County, Northern Spain

Bernedo ARABARRI Draft Town Text (dmb)

Bernedo, chartered as a town by King Sancho VI, lies to the South East of Vitoria-Gasteiz

Lucca Draft Town Text dmb

An independent city state for centuries, Lucca is

ARCHWAY DOCUMENTS

Interreg IIIc ARCHWAY project documents are no longer available through Chester City Council. http://www.archway-interreg.com has been deleted
The final documents are now available here as ARCHWAY final documents and other documents are available.

Ghent EAUH "Town Walls do not a Prison Make..."

"Town Walls do not a prison Make..." is a title of a paper given at the 10th European Association of Urban History Conference in Ghent on 1st-5th September. Arabarri has kindlky made link available on TEKNET. It puts the ARCHWAY results into an Urban History context of the Braun and Hogenberg Urban Atlas of 1572-1617.Walled towns featured extensively not just in the session in 'Walls' to which I contributed. Many of the several hundred presentations and papers would be of interest to members of the Circle.The EAUH website is www.eauh2010.ugent.be