The registration for the ERIH Annual Conference 2017, Topic “Industrial Tourism: Linking the past with the present and the future” is now open. The conference takes place from 20 to…

German Mining Museum Mining History Section Mining History Document Center Research project: From boom to crisis. German coal mining after 1945 Call for papers During the Industrial Revolution coal was…

Helen Featherstone has been appointed as the new Director of Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust. Sheffield Industrial Museums are the showcase of Sheffield’s industrial story from early industrialisation to modern times.…

The AIA was very saddened to hear the announcement last week that the AGA foundry in Coalbrookdale, near the place where Abraham Darby first smelted iron in a furnace fuelled…

Most Gazetteers and all available Tour Notes for past Conferences have now been scanned into pdfs and added to the website. Go to Past Conferences to see and download any…

Following on from the news in 2016 that Lancashire County Council had taken the decision to close several of its museums, including Queen Street Mill and Helmshore Mills Textile Museum,…

Communicating World Heritage: Research and Global Policy Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham in association with World Heritage UK Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of…

29th – 30th March 2017 Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow 2017 is the Year of History Heritage and Archaeology – a celebration of what gives Scotland its unique character and draws…

8th April 2017 The focus of this Association for Industrial Archaeology Practical Day will be the iron industry. This one-day workshop will look to provide introductory practical training and a…

Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark 20th to 22nd September 2017 “Industrial Tourism: Linking the past with the present and future” Industrial tourism is generally regarded as falling into two areas, the…