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…
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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…
Berkshire IAG – Tiles for the Abbey
A Medieval tilery and occupation at 40-68 Silver Street, Reading David Sanchez of TVAS will talk to us about the dig in Silver Street which found the remains of an…
Berkshire IAG – A Hundred Years of Shopping in Reading
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…
EERIAC 2026
East of England Regional Industrial Archaeology Conference Bury St Edmunds Full details to follow
Cambridge IAG – Watermills and Landscapes of the Great Ouse
A talk by local Huntingdonshire historian Bridget Flanagan, and Keith Grimwade. They will describe how the local Geology affected the location and operation of the Watermills. Incidentally one Mill is…
GLIAS – Short-cuts from the Thames to the Channel
Why South London’s canals failed Speaker: Alan Burkitt-Gray