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Gordon Elliott MA PhD has been involved with ceramic history for his entire working life, initially as assistant to the late Arnold Mountford at Stoke-on-Trent's City Museum and Art Gallery [Potteries Museum], subsequently becoming the Museum's Keeper of Ceramics.

In 1978 his career took a change of direction upon joining the Department of History of Art and Design at what is now Staffordshire University, as a Senior Lecturer. Before taking early retirement in 1995 he was Principal Lecturer and Course Leader of the University's MA in Ceramic History.

Recent publications by Gordon Elliott include John and David Elers and their Contemporaries [Jonathan Horne Publications], The Design Process in British Ceramic Manufacture 1750-1850 [Staffordshire University Press], and more recently Potters : Oral History in the Staffordshire Ceramic Industry [Churnet Valley Books].

'In recording the following papers on compact disk I am making available subjects that were originally part of my teaching programme for the Masters Degree in Ceramic History at Staffordshire University.

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