Home is where the legends are’ is a Centre for Arthurian Studies project funded by the Bangor University Fund, the Vice-chancellor’s initiative, which supports areas of strategic priority for the university in the 140th anniversary year of Bangor University (1884). The aims of the project are to highlight the central role played by Arthurian and Celtic Studies in the local area around Bangor University, in the foundation of the university library at the inception of the university, and in shaping scholarship, teaching and further research in these fields. The project is grounded in Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections, including a celebration of the Flintshire Harries Arthurian collection.
This online exhibit is complemented by the Centre’s 2024 Arthurian Lecture series, organised under the aegis of the 140th anniversary of Bangor University, and an educational programme for primary schools in the local area for the New Creative Curriculum in Wales, conducted by Prof. Radulescu with Gillian Brownson, local storyteller and performance artist, and Maria Hayes, fine artist.
An international dimension of this project is the collaborative ‘virtual set of exhibition cases’ in the year-long Visualising Camelot exhibition at the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Rochester, USA, from the private collections of Alan Lupack (external board member of the Centre for Arthurian Studies, formerly Director of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library) and his wife Barbara Tepa Lupack.
The project presents the outcomes of research and supervision from Centre staff (Co-directors Prof. Raluca Radulescu and Dr Aled Llion Jones; and Special Collections Manager Shan Robinson), PhD students Claire Lober and Aude Martin, and MA student Joel Romero-Meredith. Contributions from alumni Dr Ashley Walchester-Bailes, Dr Anastasija Ropa, MA alumna Merlynn Spenser, Jessika Brandon and Maurita van Drogenbroek, also feature in this exhibition, which also celebrates 10 years since the arrival of the Flintshire Harries Arthurian collection, donated by the Flintshire County Council in 2014.
