Zadar Draft Town Text (dmb)

Zadar,

Lucca Draft Town Text dmb

An independent city state for centuries, Lucca is

here in Dubrovnik

great walled city

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.

Fredericia and Narva battle re-enactment videos

This video is of  a re-enaction of a Danish gun defending Fredericia against  Schleswig-Holsteiner attack in 1849. Now only firing blanks towards cars.

Russians vainly attack Narva Castle during a re-enaction of the winter Charles XII's Swedish victory 310 years after the event in 1700. Five years later in 1705 Peter the Great's Russian victory in the summer (which is also re-enacted), saw Narva  made part of the Russian Empire for nearly all of 300 years. Narva is now an Estonian and European Union border town with 80% of its population Russian speaking.

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

Bristol in the Braun and Hogenberg City Atlas 1572-1618

Paper presented at UWE, Bristol Regional History Centre 'Second City Remembered' 23rd July 2010

WTFC TEKNET publishes first News Letter - TEKgate1

Arabarri has published the first TEKgate 1 the Walled Towns News Letter. Follow link to see articles.

"Optimising tourism in beautiful historic heritage towns" presentation for Youghal, Ireland May 13th 2010

Historic Towns Forum have published an introduction to my contribution to their conference in Ireland this week, which sadly has been cancelled. It is in their May newsletter - comments are welcome.
Optimising tourism in ...

Update on DMB research activity

1) I am working on an 'international good practice' paper about optimising not just maximising tourism in historic towns for a HistoricTowns Forum conference in Youghal, Ireland in mid May 2010. Draft paper will be made available for comments.
2) I have had an abstract accepted for a UWE Regional History Centre conference on 'Bristol Second City' for July 2010. Topic is 'How Braun and Hogenberg’s (1572-1617) view of Bristol among 400 other cities of the world may have affected Bristol’s history to date and into the future". Similarly a draft will be avialble here
3) I am presenting a paper at the European Association of Urban History Conference in Ghent at end of August 2010 "Town walls do not a prison make: uses to be made of surviving or traceable historic Town Walls in 21st Century towns and cities." A proposal and later a  draft will be avialable here.