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  • Suffolk IAS – More Items from the Collection

    Ipswich Transport Mueum Cobham Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

    Talk by Keith Hillman. Keith has an extensive collection of tools and artefacts, and will display and describe some of these for us. All welcome.

  • Somerset IAS – The World War II Listening Stations of the South-West

    Silver Street Baptist Church Hall Silver Street, Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom

    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 the English and Bristol Channels. They collected vast quantities of encrypted enemy radio messages, which were the raw material for the codebreakers at Bletchley Park…

  • SWWERIAC 2026

    Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, United Kingdom

    The Worcestershire Industrial Archaeology & Local History Society is hosting the South Wales & West England Regional Industrial Archaeology Conference (SWWERIAC) on Saturday 18th April 2026 at Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove B60 4JR. Get set for a day of engaging talks from leading speakers and a chance to explore Avoncroft’s remarkable…

  • Berkshire IAG – A Hundred Years of Shopping in Reading

    St Mary's Church Hall 14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, 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 biscuits.

  • SERIAC 2026

    Stanley Arts South Norwood, London, United Kingdom

    South Eastern Regional Industrial Archaeology ConferenceProgrammeMore than Biscuits, Beer and Bulbs – Reading’s Other IndustriesSpeaker: Jo Jones (BIAS)Brunel’s Timber Viaducts: Masterpieces or Aberrations?Speaker: Roger Davies (Hants IA)The Working CoastSpeaker: Geoff Mead (SIAS)West Ham Sewage Pumping Station ProjectSpeaker: David Perrett (GLIAS & HELT)Stanley Arts – How Did We Get Here?Speaker: Andrew Millar (Stanley Arts)Our Industrial Heritage…

  • 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 mainly a way to prevent the COVID pandemic from disrupting our academic activities and international exchanges. However, the experience exceeded our expectations. Five years on,…

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  • Berkshire IAG – Tiles for the Abbey

    St Mary's Church Hall 14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, Reading

    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 old tile-making site   Non-members are welcome for a small fee of £3 to cover hot drink and biscuits.

  • GLIAS – AGM + Broadcast Britain

    Alan Baxter Gallery 77 Cowcross Street, London, United Kingdom

    Speaker: Dr Mark Pegg. NOTE: This, unusually, is on a Thursday, starting at 6.15pm for AGM, 6.30pm lecture

  • EERIAC 2026

    East of England Regional Industrial Archaeology Conference Bury St Edmunds Full details to follow

  • Berkshire IAG – The Windsor Conduit

    St Mary's Church Hall 14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, Reading

    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 to cover hot drink and biscuits.