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 last week's announcement, here is another reminder about the 'Footprints of Industry' conference on 3rd-7th June 2009. The programme has been tweaked slightly, and is presented for your delectation below. This conference provides an exciting opportunity for debate, discussion and analysis about the archaeology of industrialisation.
Please find the draft programme below, and visit
http://tinyurl.com/c8jstb
To download a booking form. The official deadline has now been extended to 15th May but we really must have your bookings by then in order to ensure your place. I very much look forward to welcoming you to Coalbrookdale in June
All the best
Paul
3RD JUNE 2009
OPENING ADDRESS
18.00 Coalbrookdale: from ironworks to museum, 1709-1959
Michael Darby (Vice President of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, and a descendant of Abraham Darby)
WINE RECEPTION
FROM 19.00 IN THE 'COVERED BAYS'
4TH JUNE 2009
ORIGINS AND INHERITANCE
SESSION ONE
EUROPEAN ORIGINS OF INDUSTRIALISATION
09.30 Farms to Forges: early medieval industrialisation in Europe
Ronald A. Ross (Wilfred Laurier University, Ontario)
09.55 Iron, Glass, and Castles: the medieval industrial landscape in Spessart
Gerhard Ermischer (Archaeologisches Spessart-Project, Germany)
10.20 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)
10.45 Discussion
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Before the Lunar Society: the evidence for early post-medieval industrialisation in Birmingham
Chris Hewitson (University of Birmingham)
11.55 Monastic Scotland not Quaker Coalbrookdale?: Salt and the 'long Industrial Revolution'
David Cranstone (Cranstone Consultants)
12.20 Industrialisation: Some thoughts on Archaeological Evidence from the Manchester Region
Mike Nevell (University of Manchester)
12.45 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
SESSION TWO
THE METALLURGICAL INHERITANCE OF ABRAHAM DARBY
13.50 The early iron industry in the English west midlands
Peter King (Independent Researcher)
14.15 Some Brayon and Walloon interventions at Coalbrookdale
Brian G. Awty (Independent Researcher)
14.40 New men on the block - Sheffield steelmen in the Cutlers' Company
Joan Unwin (Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire)
15.05 Discussion
15.20 Tea
15.45 C'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron: cognitive archaeology and metalworking
David Dungworth (English Heritage)
16.10 Puddling: A Metallurgical Perspective
Merton C. Flemings (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
16.35 Discussion
16.45 Break
KEYNOTE LECTURE
17.00 Fuel and power - change in British industry 1600-1800
David Crossley (University of Sheffield)
5TH JUNE 2009
TOWARDS BRAVE NEW WORLDS
SESSION THREE
TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
09.30 Religion, science and technology in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Paul Belford (Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust)
09.55 The Industrial and Social Impact of John Wilkinson
Vin Callcut (Independent Researcher)
10.20 Advancing the work of Prometheus - the impact of artificial light in the workplace and beyond
Ian West (University of Leicester)
10.45 Discussion
11.00 Coffee
11.30 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)
11.55 The Shock of the New: technology and change in London's East End
Emma Dwyer (Museum of London Archaeology)
12.20 The impact of science and technology on Scotland's 19th century sailing fishing fleets
Robert Prescott (University of St. Andrews)
12.45 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
SESSION FOUR
LIFE AND DEATH
13.50 Bound to the Margins of Society: West Yorkshire Workhouses of the Industrial Age
Charlotte Newman (University of York)
14.15 Living through the industrial revolution: disease and death in 18th and 19th century Birmingham
Megan Brickley (University of Birmingham)
14.40 Dealing with the personal in a time of mass production: the evidence from the funerary industry
Harold Mytum (University of Liverpool)
15.05 Discussion
15.20 Tea
SESSION FIVE
IMPERIAL TENSIONS
15.45 Steel Away - the Trenton Steel Works and the Struggle for American Manufacturing Independence
Richard W. Hunter and Ian C. Burrow (Hunter Research Inc.)
16.10 Training for the Trenches: the archaeology of the Great War camps on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire
Ian Wykes (Staffordshire County Council)
16.35 Discussion
16.45 Break
KEYNOTE LECTURE
17.00 New light on familiar objects: archaeology and industrialisation in the 21st century
Marilyn Palmer(University of Leicester)
IRONBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGY ANNIVERSARY PARTY
FROM 20.00 IN 'THE ENGINE SHOP'
CELIDH BAND, BAR, FOOD AND DANCING
6TH JUNE 2009
THE LEGACY OF INDUSTRIALISATION
SESSION SIX
UNDERSTANDING THE RESOURCE
09.55 Smelting works, chapels, churches, institutes and houses
Stephen Hughes (Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales)
10.20 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)
10.45 Discussion
11.00 Tea
11.30 Shipbuilding and shipping technology 1860-1950
John Gribble (Wessex Archaeology)
11.55 So much archaeology, so little time: archaeological technique and Industrial remains
Helen Gomersall (West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service)
12.20 Detritus or Waste?: Approaches to preservation and presentation of 19th & 20th century industrial workshops
William Mitchell (University of Birmingham)
12.45 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
SESSION SEVEN
MANAGING AND INTERPRETING INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
14.00 The Clee Hills: concrete heritage, missed opportunities and an extraordinary landscape.
Roger White (University of Birmingham)
14.25 Industrial Heritage in the Greater Region
Norbert Mendgen (HTW des Saarlandes)
14.50 Industrial heritage in Spain: national plan and concrete examples
Pablo Sánchez (University of Valladolid / Llámpara Association)
15.15 Apocalypse Soon: a seedbank of technologies as part of the human survival package?
David Cranstone (Cranstone Consultants)
15.30 Tea
16.00 Discussion
CONCLUDING LECTURE
17.00 Bringing Back The People
Sir Neil Cossons
CONFERENCE DINNER
FROM 20.00 IN 'ENGINUITY'
BAR, THREE COURSE MEAL AND WINE
PRESENTATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR POST-MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY DISSERTATION PRIZE
CLOSING REMARKS BY MR STEVE MILLER, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM TRUST
Paul Belford BSc MA FSA MIfA
Head of Archaeology and Monuments
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
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