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Ben Curtis

Historian, Cardiff University

Historian, Cardiff University Dr Ben Curtis is a social and public historian of modern Wales and Britain, specialising in mining history. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in Social and Labour History at the University of Wolverhampton, and also a History Tutor at the Department of Continuing and Professional Education at Cardiff University. He is the author of The South Wales Miners, 1964–1985 (Cardiff, 2013) and is also widely published in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of the coal industry, industrial disability, and de/industrialisation, c.1780–2000. He has significant media experience as a historical expert on television (BBC, ITV, S4C) and radio, including on the BBC TV programmes Who Do You Think You Are? and Wales: England’s Colony?, and on BBC Radio 4’s Today with John Humphrys.