The impact of glass on everyday lives by 'The Decanter Man'

The European Union has recently declared glass uniquely ‘carbon negative’ in that its applications reduce CO2 emissions in greater measure than those released during its manufacture. Glass is the first man-made material to have been awarded this premier status, and is unique in many other ways.

This lecture examines the astonishing impact of glass on both the lives of our ancestors and, more especially, our own. Indeed, Andy shares the contention that glass is the greatest substance ever created.

About the speaker

Andy McConnell has dealt in antiques since adolescence, but served an apprenticeship in journalism. After working in music, film and television, he returned to writing in 2004 as the author of the acclaimed tome The Decanter, An Illustrated History of Glass From 1650. He followed this in 2006 with Miller's' 20th Century Glass. He writes regularly for journals as diverse as The Times and Glass Circle News and runs Britain's largest antique and vintage glass gallery in Rye, Sussex. He is best known as the distinctly humorous glass specialist on BBC's evergreen Antiques Roadshow.

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