Winning the clay. The importance of ball clay to the communities of Devon and Stoke-on-Trent

"Reclaiming cultural memory provides strength, sustenance and vision" (Bissell, E. 2019)
In Devon, around 45 million years ago, a sequence of geological conditions led to the formation of 'ball clay'; a rare clay with unique qualities that would come to play a major role in the explosion of the ceramics manufacturing industries in the…