Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War:
A workshop for museum interpreters, archivists and historians
Supported by the AHRC-funded project: Innovating in Combat: telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War
Centre for History & Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, in partnership with the Museum of History of Science, University of Oxford
Friday 28 June 2013 9am – 4.30pm
Online registration now available at http://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/innovatingincombat/events/workshop-28-june-registration/
Please note: advance registration is essential for this event.
Programme
9.00-9.15: Arrivals, Coffee and Tea.
9.15-9.30: WELCOME
Elizabeth Bruton and Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds
Project overview including development of educational resources; introduction to project partners
9.30-11.00: RESEARCH
Charlotte Connelly, Science Museum
Recent research on the effects of wartime radio training on the later amateur radio movement
Phil Judkins, University of Buckingham Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies
Before Dawn: Air Defence and Telecommunications during World War One
John Moyle and Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds
Major Fuller and the Fortunes of War: The development of the Fullerphone during World War One
Followed by 15 minutes discussion
10.30-11.00: Tea and coffee
11.00-1.00: EXHIBITIONS AND PLANNING
Anne Locker, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) archives
General update on the IET archive's plans for the First World War centenary and some preliminary findings
Charlotte Dando, Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Cornwall
Plans to rebuild a World War One memorial to those of the telegraph companies that gave their lives during the Great War
Stephen Johnson, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Plans for an exhibition about Henry Moseley and soldier-scientists in the First World War
Kate Vigurs, Legacies of War, University of Leeds
Overview of the Legacies of War project at the University of Leeds
Adam Walsh, Royal Engineers Museum and Archives
Royal Engineers Museum and Archives' plan for the World War One centenary
David Hay, British Telecom (BT) archives
BT archival sources have that are being digitised under BT archive's Coventry/TNA project launched and available online this summer.
Claire Jones, University of Leeds HSTM Museum
Public engagement experiences and how this might translate to WWI
Followed by 15 minutes discussion
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.30: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION, chaired by Richard Noakes, University of Exeter
3.30-4.00: Tea and coffee
4.00-4.30: Closing remarks
Please send all enquiries to Elizabeth Bruton [log in to unmask]
Graeme Gooday,
Professor of the History of Science and Technology
Deputy Head of School
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
Woodhouse Lane
University of Leeds
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United Kingdom
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Phone: 0113 343 3274
FAX: 0113 343 3265
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Elizabeth Bruton
Postdoctoral Researcher, "Innovating in Combat: telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War",
University of Leeds and the Museum of History of Science, Oxford
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