GLIAS – AGM + Broadcast Britain
Speaker: Dr Mark Pegg. NOTE: This, unusually, is on a Thursday, starting at 6.15pm for AGM, 6.30pm lecture
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Somerset IAS – Shrewsbury Flaxmill/Maltings – the first iron framed building in the world (Online)
Dr Barrie Trinder explains why the main mill at Shrewsbury Flaxmill/Maltings is a landmark in the history of construction. It is the first building in the world to have a…
Somerset IAS – Coal Bunkering and Coal Lumpers of Dartmouth (Online)
Dartmouth, Devon, was a significant coal bunkering port for steamships from the late 19th century, employing large numbers of tough, competitive workers called coal lumpers who manually loaded coal from barges/hulks into ships’ bunkers,…
Somerset IAS – The Future History of Coal Mining – How will England choose to remember? (Online)
Dr John Tanner asks how England will choose to remember its coal mining heritage. Once the demand for domestic coal started to fall in the 1950s the number of pits…
Somerset IAS – The World War II Listening Stations of the South-West
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…
Somerset IAS – AGM and Quiz
The SIAS Annual General Meeting, which is usually very brief, followed by a light-hearted test of your knowledge of industrial archaeology. There is no charge to SIAS members, guests…
Somerset IAS – John Smeaton 1724-1792; the Making of an Engineering Genius
Our speaker Dr Julia Elton, an engineering historian and honorary member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers. John Smeaton is widely regarded as the founder of the British civil…
Somerset IAS – The Victorian Way of Death
Dr Charlotte Coles describes Victorian funeral practices, the planning of cemeteries, early crematoria, and London’s Necropolis Railway. Although Victorian culture embodied many traditions and practices that may now seem unusual,…