GLIAS – Short-cuts from the Thames to the Channel
Why South London's canals failed Speaker: Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Alan Baxter Gallery 77 Cowcross Street, London, United Kingdom
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Berkshire IAG – Celebrating 75 years of AWE
St Mary's Church Hall 14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, ReadingFor 75 years, AWE has proudly played a role of critical national importance: helping deliver the UK’s nuclear deterrent. In 1950, Aldermaston became the site of the UK Government’s Atomic…
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Somerset IAS – Coal Bunkering and Coal Lumpers of Dartmouth (Online)
OnlineDartmouth, 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,…
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Suffolk IAS – More Items from the Collection
Ipswich Transport Mueum Cobham Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, United KingdomTalk by Keith Hillman. Keith has an extensive collection of tools and artefacts, and will display and describe some of these for us. All welcome.
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Somerset IAS – The World War II Listening Stations of the South-West
Silver Street Baptist Church Hall Silver Street, Taunton, Somerset, United KingdomSpeaker 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…
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Derbyshire AS – Coal Mining in the Faroe Islands and other international IA adventures
Speaker: Ian Mitchell (speaker at St. Mary’s Church Hall, Darley Lane, Derby, DE1 3AX) It used to be a tradition of the IA Section to finish the programme with a…
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SWWERIAC 2026
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, United KingdomThe 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…
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Berkshire IAG – A Hundred Years of Shopping in Reading
St Mary's Church Hall 14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, ReadingTalk 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…
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SERIAC 2026
Stanley Arts South Norwood, London, United KingdomSouth 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…
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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…
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Cambridge IAG – Industrial Architecture as Cinematic Stage: The Sequel !
Pye Building Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cheddars Lane, Cambridge, United Kingdom(Re)discover how some of cinema’s most influential filmmakers adapted industrial architecture as cinematic stage! This year, a dam and hydro-power theme as we revisit filming locations of two of cinema's…
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Berkshire IAG – Tiles for the Abbey
St Mary's Church Hall 14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, ReadingA 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…