Juliane Czierpka is Research Assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social History, Georg-August-University, Göttingen. She recently finished a project on the Black Country and the Borinage as economic regions during European industrialization.Kathrin Oerters is Cultural Manager for the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Goethe-Institute Moscow in Astrakhan, Russia. She is researching the Industrial Heritage of the Ruhr region and South Wales in comparison at the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-University Bochum.Nora Thorade is Research Assistant in the Department of History at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Her research looks at the industrial development of small mining districts in Germany during the 19th century.