Lisa Peters is a

Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...

curler who represented Wales in the

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, the 2009 European Curling Championships, and the 2010 European Curling Championships. She is one of Wales's two representatives to the

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. She was born in

Wrexham Wrexham ( ; cy, Wrecsam; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It is located between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley, near the border with Cheshire in England. Historically in the count ...

in north Wales. Peters started curling in 2001 and plays for the Alyn Valley club at the

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in north Wales. She and her teammate, Phil Jones, were the first winners of the Hobart trophy (Welsh pairs championships) in 2007. Outside of curling, Peters is a historian of newspapers in Victorian Wales. After completing a PhD at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth o
Wrexham newspapers, 1848-1914
she turned it into a book called
Politics, Publishing and Personalities: Wrexham Newspapers, 1848-1914
' in 2011.

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