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Conference 2026
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Usually in Spring, is the AIA Practical Day Known under different names over the years: ‘Affiliated Societies Day’, ‘Ironbridge Weekend’, ‘Practical Day’ and ‘CPD Day’ the event is open to everyone. The day is usually devoted to a particular topic or theme and engenders much useful discussion and debate. In the past it was an informal and sociable event and included related study visits but is now more likely to be a Zoom event.
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In late summer each year the Annual Conference takes place in a different venue somewhere in the UK. We look at local industrial archaeology and history through lectures and visits. Whilst the main conference is over a weekend, there are also continuing events into the following week for those wishing to spend longer in the area.
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Often in May we have organised many, week-long overseas Field Visits
Normally during the Conference weekend the Association’s AGM takes place and the Annual Rolt Memorial Lecture is delivered.
The Conference is often preceded by a one day seminar and the theme is usually one of a national nature.
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Speaker Colin White has identified the locations and condition of around twenty-five World War II covert listening stations (known as "Y-Stations") in the West Country, many along the strategically important coastlines of… Speaker: Ian Mitchell (speaker at St. Mary’s Church Hall, Darley Lane, Derby, DE1 3AX) It used to be a tradition of the IA Section to finish the programme with a… The Worcestershire Industrial Archaeology & Local History Society is hosting the South Wales & West England Regional Industrial Archaeology Conference (SWWERIAC) on Saturday 18th April 2026 at Avoncroft Museum of… Talk by Ann Smith who will take us through many of our long forgotten shops. Non-members are welcome for a small fee of £3 to cover hot drink and…
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Events
Somerset IAS – The World War II Listening Stations of the South-West
Silver Street Baptist Church Hall
Silver Street, Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom
Derbyshire AS – Coal Mining in the Faroe Islands and other international IA adventures
SWWERIAC 2026
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, United Kingdom
Berkshire IAG – A Hundred Years of Shopping in Reading
St Mary's Church Hall
14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, Reading
AIA Conference 2026 – East Anglia
Image: Woodbridge Tidemill, Suffolk, one of the visits included in the Conference Prograamme This year’s Conference is to be held at the Mercure Hotel, Norwich. Conference follows its traditional format
10th East-West Workshop on Industrial Archaeology (cheers!)
The East-West Workshops on Industrial Archaeology were not created to endure; at least, not in a purely virtual format. When we held our first workshop in May 2021, it was
Derbyshire AS – Coal Mining in the Faroe Islands and other international IA adventures
Speaker: Ian Mitchell (speaker at St. Mary’s Church Hall, Darley Lane, Derby, DE1 3AX) It used to be a tradition of the IA Section to finish the programme with a
Berkshire IAG – The Windsor Conduit
Dr David Lewis will tell us about this 16th century engineering project designed to supply fresh water to the castle Non-members are welcome for a small fee of £3
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