Posts From Bill Barksfield
2nd East-West Workshop on Industrial Archaeology – The New Generation
After the motivating results achieved by the “1st East-West Workshop on Industrial Archaeology: introducing the archaeology of the industrial society” in 2021, we are now launching a second edition focused
AIA Merseyside Weekend now open for booking
17th – 19th June 2022 Following the cancellation of the traditional conference, which was to have been held at Hope University the Association was very grateful to the Merseyside Industrial
Latest Planning Update now available
Amber Patrick, the Planning Casework Officer, constantly monitors planning applications across the UK which seek to alter or demolish industrial sites and buildings and makes comments to feed into the
January e-News bulletin now published
News stories include: Proposed cuts at Stoke’s industrial museums Historic England Heritage At Risk Victorian Society’s top ten endangered sites Novel reuse of Catesby tunnel Campaign to stop controversial bridge
Series of Hybrid IA talks announced by Yorkshire IHS
The Yorkshire Archaeological & Historical Society, Industrial History Section has published its programme of talks for October 2021 to April 2022 and is intending to make them all hybrid talks:
Scottish Salt Symposium, Brora, East Sutherland October 16th – 17th 2021
October 16th – 17th 2021 Brora was the most northerly centre of coal-fired sea salt manufacture by the direct boiling method in the 16th – 19th centuries. The Symposium brings
AIA Conference 2021 – First session recording available
The very successful first session of the Conference took place on Saturday 8th August with presentations on Merseyside and Wirral IA from Maurice Handley and Rob Jones, chaired by Anna
AIA Annual Conference 2021 – Registration now open
Our Annual Conference is to be a virtual event accessible via Zoom to run over a number of weekends in August and September in place of the usual physical conference.
EERIAC 2021 – First post-lockdown physical IA Conference announced
Saturday 3rd of July 2021 The Pye Building, Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cheddars Lane, Cambridge CB5 8LD Programme: 9.00 a.m Registration, Tea & Coffee, Set up Displays, (request space on
