ICON, the Instute for Conservation, is launching the 4th edition of ‘First Aid for Finds’, the essential guide for the care of freshly excavated archaeological objects, on 15th October. The session will feature an exclusive lecture from the book’s authors, who will discuss the evolution of First Aid for Finds, highlight the key updates in…
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Lecture on the ‘Architecture and the Face of Coal’, the 20th Century Society, July 6th 2023
Professor Gary Boyd, Professor of Architecture at Queen’s University, Belfast, will be speaking to the 20th Century Society on the 6th July about the impact of architecture on the UK’s coal industry during the 20th century. This will include its crucial role as a force for modernisation and the part it played in enhancing worker…
SPAB Mills Section Lunchtime Lecture, 19 April 2023
The SPAB Mills Section’s latest online lunchtime lecture on 19th April 2023 will look back at what became the standard work on windmills: Rex Wailes’s 1957 book ‘The English Windmill’. Its content blended technical, historical, and anecdotal information to create a work that is still highly readable and relevant today. In the 65 years since…
‘A Pretty Engine’: next SPAB Mills Section lunchtime talk
On 1 December 2021 the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Mills Section will be holding their next online lunchtime lecture. ‘A Pretty Engine’ is the title of a talk to be given by Steve Temple about the earliest reference to the use of a plunger pump. John Evelyn was the first of…
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