EERIAC 2025
Outline Programme: Free Tea, Coffee and Biscuits on arrival 09:30 Morning lectures Buffet Lunch Afternoon visit to the Stretham Old Pumping Engine, Green End, Stretham, Ely CB6 3LE Costs: £10…
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Cambridge IAG – Industrial Architecture as Cinematic Stage
Presenter: Dr Gordon Davies (volunteer, Cambridge Museum of Technology) Dams, mines, power stations, railways (and more industrial architecture!) have featured in 130 years of cinematic history, ever since Louis Lumière first…
Cambridge IAG – Centenary of Elstree and Borehamwood’s Film Studios
Presenter: Howard Berry, Principal Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire A ‘behind-the-scenes’ presentation celebrating the centenary of Elstree & Borehamwood’s film studios with: oral histories of production staff who ‘made’…
Somerset IAS – Arsenic Production in South-West England
Mining Historian Rick Stewart examines the region’s production of the notoriously toxic heavy metal When alternative and cheaper sources of copper were found in Chile, South Africa and Australia in…
Somerset IAS – The Kennal Vale Paper mill, Cornwall
Historian and author Lynne Mayers describes the Kennal Vale Paper Mill, and poses the question whether it was the most successful mill in Cornwall The picturesque and deeply wooded Kennal…
Somerset IAS – Tin in Antiquity
Ben Sumpter searches for the sources of tin in antiquity The earliest travellers to the British Isles whose texts have survived frequently mention tin working in what is now Devon…
Somerset IAS – Iron, Stone and Steam; Brunel’s Railway Empire
Author Tim Bryan tells the story of Brunel’s achievements and innovations Tim spent 21 years as curator of the GWR and ‘Steam’ Museums in Swindon, and is Director of the…
Somerset IAS – Black Country Transport in the early 1960s
Keith Hodgkins recalls Black Country Transport in the 1960s, and illustrates a world of trams, canals, road transport and railways during a time of rapid change Keith illustrates fascinating scenes…
SWWERIAC 2025
South Wales and West of England Regional Industrial Archæological Conference SWWERIAC took place annually until the Covid Epidemic struck. Oxford House Industrial History Society’s initiative revived the event in 2024.…
Cambridge IAG – Film Studios: Infrastructure, Architecture, Afterlife
Film studios are architectural spaces designed to support every stage in a film’s production, yet they’ve rarely featured as the subject of extensive analysis compared with film movements, directors and…