Past Conferences

This is a list of past annual conferences of the AIA. The table shows the Date and the Location and the Gazetteer when one was published. Many Gazetteers and Conference Tour Notes have now been scanned and loaded onto the website. The Tour Notes and Gazetteers are searchable, as is the whole site, by using the ‘magnifying glass’ in the top right of the screen. ( There are guidelines for those preparing Gazetteers: Download here ) Some Gazetteers are still available on paper; see our Sales page for further details. There was no 2022 Conference but a long weekend of tours, led by the Merseyside Industrial Heritage Society, which were to have been included in the 2020 Conference took place over a long weekend in June 2022. The 2021 Annual Conference was a virtual event held over a number of weekends in August and September in place of the physical conference which was originally scheduled to have been on Merseyside in 2020. The sessions on the 7th August, 4th, 18th and 25th September were recorded and are now available via our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILr2TkRAOIfk_NKchshwZQ If you subscribe to the channel then you will be notified when new recordings are added. The session on 11th September was not recorded at the speakers’ request but Anthony Clarke has supplied this summary of his presentation about the Archaeology of Albert Dock The Albert Dock AIA MIHS A Clarke AIA Members should click here to read pdfs of:
  • The Tour Notes for many of the Conferences
  • Many of the Gazetteers for the areas visited
  • Thanks to Dr Peter Stanier and Twelveheads Press there is also the Gazetteer Dorset’s Industrial Heritage
Earlier conferences are listed below
Year Location & Tour Notes Gazetteer
2023 50th Anniversary Bath
2022 Merseyside weekend
2021 Zoom Recordings available on Youtube
2019 Somerset *
2018 Nottingham *
2017 South-East Midlands *
2016 Telford *
2015 Brighton * Sussex *
2014 Chester * Cheshire *
2013 Dundee * Tayside *
2012 Chelmsford * Essex *
2011 Cork * Ireland
2010 Penryn * Cornwall
2009 Lincoln *
2008 Chippenham * Wiltshire *
2007 Preston * Lancashire *
2006 Isle of Man
2005 Nottingham * Derbyshire *
2004 Hatfield * Hertfordshire and The Lee Valley *
2003 Cardiff * South East Wales *
2002 Edinburgh Central Scotland Forth and Clyde *
2001 Cambridge Cambridgeshire and Peterborough *
2000 Manchester * Greater Manchester *
1999 Chatham Kent *
1998 Newton Abbot Devon *
1997 Newcastle-upon-Tyne * Tyne & Wear *
1996 Bangor * North West Wales *
1995 Sheffield * South Yorkshire *
1994 Winchester Hampshire *
1993 Ambleside Cumbria *
1992 Cirencester * Gloucestershire *
1991 Dudley * West Midlands Iron District *
1990 Guildford Surrey *
1989 Huddersfield West Yorkshire *
1988 Swansea Swansea Region *
1987 Bath Avon *
1986 Loughborough East Midlands *
1985 Glasgow Scotland 60 sites *
1984 Aberystwyth Mid-Wales *
1983 Lincoln Lincolnshire *
1982 London
1981 Norwich In and Around Norfolk *
1980 Liverpool
1979 Ironbridge
1978 Penzance Industries of Penzance
1977 Manchester
1976 Southampton
1975 Durham
1974 Keele
1973 Isle of Man
Conference map
** Pictures of the Dundee Conference can be found on  Flickr and a report on the St Monans salt pans is at http://www.tafac.org.uk/category/monographs/