Apologies for cross-posting; please pass this on to colleagues who may be interested in industrial, historical and post-medieval archaeology, heritage management and interpretation.

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Dear Colleagues

Following an earlier call for papers, here is a reminder that the 'Footprints of Industry' conference is taking place from 3rd to 7th June 2009 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the first successful commercial use of coke to smelt iron.

This is an appropriate moment to consider the impact of the industrial revolution on the modern world.  The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion of research into the processes of industrialisation, coupled with overwhelming public support for the conservation of its material remains. The wide range of disciplines involved: archaeology, history, metallurgy and conservation, have themselves developed in response to the challenges of understanding this often fragile heritage. Big themes and issues arise which have tremendous relevance to the world today: environmental change, social transformation, technological progress, leisure as industry and industry as leisure.

This conference provides an exciting opportunity for inter-disciplinary debate, discussion and analysis.

Please find the draft programme below, and visit

http://tinyurl.com/c8jstb

To download a booking form. Please book now to ensure your place! If you have any questions or queries please reply to this email!

I look forward to welcoming you to Coalbrookdale in June

All the best


Paul


Paul Belford BSc MA FSA MIfA
Head of Archaeology and Monuments
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
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DRAFT PROGRAMME

DAY ONE
THURSDAY 4TH JUNE 2009
THE ORIGINS OF INDUSTRIALISATION AND THE INHERITANCE OF ABRAHAM DARBY

Farms to Forges: early medieval industrialisation in Europe
Ronald A. Ross (Wilfred Laurier University, Ontario)

Iron, glass, and castles: the medieval industrial landscape in southern Germany
Gerhard Ermischer (Archaeologisches Spessart-Project, Germany)

Ancient copper and lead pollution records from peat bogs in Central Wales and Scotland
Tim Mighall et al. (Universities of Aberdeen, Cambridge, Westminster, Leeds and Edinburgh)

Monastic Scotland not Quaker Coalbrookdale?: Salt and the 'long Industrial Revolution'
David Cranstone  (Cranstone Consultants)

The early iron industry in the English west midlands
Peter King (Independent Researcher)

Before the Lunar Society: the evidence for early post-medieval industrialisation in Birmingham
Chris Hewitson (University of Birmingham)

Some Brayon and Walloon interventions at Coalbrookdale
Brian G. Awty (Independent Researcher)

The Industrial and Social Impact of John Wilkinson
Vin Callcut (Independent Researcher)

Industrialisation: Some thoughts on Archaeological Evidence from the Manchester Region
Mike Nevell (University of Manchester)

Keynote lecture
David Crossley
 

DAY 2
FRIDAY 5TH JUNE 2009
TOWARDS BRAVE NEW WORLDS: TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND GLOBALISATION

C'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron: cognitive archaeology and metalworking
David Dungworth (English Heritage)

Religion, science and technology in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Paul Belford (Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust)

Puddling: A Metallurgical Perspective
Merton C. Flemings (Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advancing the work of Prometheus - the impact of artificial light in the workplace and beyond
Ian West (University of Leicester)

New men on the block - Sheffield steelmen in the Cutlers' Company
Joan Unwin (Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire)

Living through the industrial revolution: disease and death in 18th and 19th century Birmingham
Megan Brickley (University of Birmingham)

Smelting works, chapels, churches, institutes and houses
Stephen Hughes (Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales)

Bound to the Margins of Society: West Yorkshire Workhouses of the Industrial Age 
Charlotte Newman (University of York)

The Shock of the New: technology and change in London's East End
Emma Dwyer (Museum of London Archaeology)

Bath in the Industrial Revolution: the Harmony of Tourism, Trade, and Innovation
C. J. Axon (University of Oxford) and Stuart Burroughs (Museum of Bath at Work),

Steel Away - the Trenton Steel Works and the Struggle for American Manufacturing Independence
Richard W. Hunter and Ian C. Burrow (Hunter Research Inc.)

Keynote lecture
Marilyn Palmer

 

DAY 3
SATURDAY 6TH JUNE 2009
UNDERSTANDING, MANAGING AND INTERPRETING THE HERITAGE OF INDUSTRIALISATION

Detritus or Waste? Approaches to preservation and presentation of 19th and 20th century industrial workshops
William Mitchell (University of Birmingham)

It's not just the Buildings: Approaches to improving appreciation of Ironworks in their landscapes in South Wales
Andrew G Marvell (Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust)

The Clee Hills: concrete heritage, missed opportunities and an extraordinary landscape.
Roger White (University of Birmingham)

Industrial Heritage in the Greater Region
Norbert Mendgen (HTW des Saarlandes)

Industrial heritage in Spain: national plan and concrete examples
Pablo Sánchez (University of Valladolid / Llámpara Association)

Apocalypse Soon: a seedbank of of technologies as part of the human survival package?
David Cranstone  (Cranstone Consultants)

So much archaeology, so little time: archaeological technique and Industrial remains
Helen Gomersall (West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service)

Concluding lecture
Bringing Back The People
Sir Neil Cossons