Welsh Journals

CONTRIBUTORS TO MINERVA XIV Bernice Cardy took a degree in Classical Art & Archaeology as a mature student and has since excavated sites from the Neolithic to 19th century industrial, in Cyprus, Canada as well as Wales. She joined Swansea Museum staff in 1996 after four years as Archaeologist for the former Lliw Valley Borough Council. Andrew Dulley is the Assistant County Archivist at the West Glamorgan Archive Service, where he has worked since 1995. He was the project manager for the RISW archives cataloguing project. He was also involved with a similar project to list the Neath Antiquar- ian Society archive collections. Janet M. Neilson was born and brought up in Swansea. She taught in Parkland Primary School, Swansea, for 25 years, where she had special responsibility for co-ordinating music and Religious Education and her interest in Judaism was sparked by teaching several Jewish children. This interest, which began over thirty years ago, led her to study for a degree in theology after taking early retirement and she graduated in 2005. Her article in this issue of Minerva is the result of research undertaken as part of her degree. Bryan Taylor is a native of Swansea. He served in the RAF. Since retiring from his career in primary education he has researched local history, particularly water mills and the application of water power. He is currently chair of the Oystermouth Historical Association and his other interests include painting, walking, skiing, natural science, roaming around Europe and reading. Tadashi Uchida was born in central Japan in 1932. On graduating from Nagoya Univer- sity with MSc in 1956, he joined Sumitomo Metal Mining, the oldest metal mining and smelting company in Japan. During 36 years of employment there, he was involved in the î development of new smelting methods of non-ferrous metals and of semiconductor and LCD circuiting materials. Upon retirement from the company in 1992, he became an inspector for ISO 9000, while pursuing his interest in the industrial development of Japan in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and the European engineers and scientists who helped it. This piece, Swansea's Copper Connection with Japan, was the first research thesis he has attempted since leaving university. He lives in Tokyo with his wife, Tsuneko. He has two grown up daughters and two grand-daughters.