Events

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, they also introduced innovations that are widely accepted today.   There is no charge to SIAS members, guests are welcome at £3. At Silver Street…

Speaker: Dr Richard Marks

Bracknell is well known for being one of the ‘new towns’ built after the Second World War to relieve the pressure of housing and industry in London – but the history of Bracknell goes back much further than that. Early hunter gatherers, Iron Age people and Romans have all called Bracknell their home. Hidden in…

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 structural frame of iron, and is the ancestor of all iron and steel buildings. Completed by 1800, to spin fibre from flax plants into thread…