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2009 CBA Beatrice de Cardi lecture recognises 50 years of industrial archaeology Marilyn Palmer, Emeritus Professor at the University of Leicester, gave the annual Beatrice de Cardi lecture at the CBA Weekend Event in Shrewsbury this weekend. In an address entitled, 'Fifty Years of Industrial Archaeology', Marilyn stated that the importance of the UK's industrial heritage should be better-represented in university teaching. Though the discipline has grown in recognition through the work of volunteers, national agencies and contracting units, resulting in a number of industrial sites being on the UK's World Heritage Site list, there are still very few undergraduate or postgraduate courses which take industrial archaeology into account. The lecture also recognised the pivotal role played by the Council for British Archaeology in establishing the discipline of industrial archaeology in 1959, and the work the organisation carried out throughout the 1960s in establishing a network of volunteers to record many hundreds of buildings under threat. The full text of the lecture and the accompanying powerpoint presentation can be found here: www.britarch.ac.uk/news/091019-decardi ________________ Dr Dan Hull Head of Information & Communications Council for British Archaeology, St Mary's House, 66 Bootham, York YO30 7BZ tel 01904 671417, fax 01904 671384 A Company Limited by Guarantee, registered in England 1760254 & Registered Charity 287815. Have you seen the new CBA website? www.britarch.ac.uk