News From The Past 2023
A day of talks on the latest archaeological discoveries in the West Midlands.
More info here: https://cbawestmidlands.org.uk/2023-news-from-the-past/
Are You A Retired Industrial Worker?
An update from our friends, Birmingham People’s History Archive:
BPHA has a Historic England grant for an exciting project about local industries. Birmingham’s changed so much in recent times, but we must remember, and keep for future generations, the memories of people and places who have contributed so much to our great city.
We want to interview retired industrial workers. University of Birmingham students will be trained to carry out interviews by the Oral History Society. These will take place in community settings during December 2022 – early 2023. Information from the interviews will be used for school artwork, teaching resources, and community activities, exhibitions and other events led by BPHA.
We’d love to hear your stories! If you’d like to be interviewed, please email gill@bpha.online We can also arrange a phone call with anyone who’d like to talk about the project or ask more questions first.
Thank you,
Birmingham People’s History Archive
Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, B3 3BS
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Birmingham Heritage Week
We invite you to explore and (re)discover Birmingham’s rich history and heritage during this 10-day city-wide heritage festival. This year, 100 Birmingham based organisations and societies, involving thousands of staff and volunteer hours, will open their doors and offer events to show off what Birmingham has to offer. With over 150 events to choose from – ranging from talks, walks, workshops, outdoor performances, building tours and open days to heritage themed cycling and running tours – there is something for everyone. Discover what’s on your doorstep.
Find out more here
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Building Recording Through Time
Date: 16 September 2022
Times: 10 - 4.30pm
Location: The Undercroft, Worcester Cathedral, 8 College Yar, Worcester, WR1 2LA
Join WMHBT for their conference entitled ‘Building Recording Through Time’.
They will be welcoming speakers from Historic England, Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, and Birmingham Museums Trust as well as the trusts staff.
Talks will take you through a journey of building recording from the 19th century all the way up to the modern day and digital recording methods.
The day will include a catered lunch along with refreshments being provided throughout.
Lecture Speaker: Stuart Pierson
Stuart is a Senior Project Officer at Wessex Archaeology, where he directs fieldwork projects. From 2018 to 2022, Stuart was responsible for directing Wessex Archaeology’s major infrastructure project at Coleshill Hall, Warwickshire, where he managed the onsite works of evaluation and mitigation in advance of High Speed 2.
Stuart studied archaeology at University Centre Peterborough and The University of Sheffield, with a focus on landscape and experimental archaeology. He took part in several research excavations including Flag Fen, the Lost City of Trellech Project, and the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project.
Lecture Speaker: Chris Patrick
Chris Patrick is Birmingham City Council’s Principal Conservation Officer and has worked as a conservation officer and archaeologist in the West Midlands for 25 years.
Lecture Speaker: Professor Henry Chapman
Henry Chapman is a professor of archaeology at the University of Birmingham. He specialises in the archaeology of wetlands and the relationships between human activity and environmental change, using a range of digital modelling methods. In addition to his research on later prehistoric bog bodies, he studies a range of different archaeological landscapes, from Iron Age marsh forts to the multi-period landscape of Stonehenge.
Lecture Speaker: Matthew Jones
Matt Jones has been doing archaeology for nearly 20 years starting paid archaeological work in the school holidays between terms. He studied at Cardiff University doing student excavations at Durrington Walls as well as the ‘Islands in a common sea’ project on the Isles of Scilly. He has worked all over the country: starting in Canterbury before stints in Gloucestershire, Chester, Worcester, and back to Canterbury, before settling in Cambridgeshire for over 10 years before starting with Archaeology Warwickshire in 2020. His main interests are prehistoric and Roman archaeology, with a focus on transitions, such as Bronze Age to Iron Age/ Iron Age to Roman as well as the beginning of monumentality in the UK.
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Lecture Speaker: Andy Foster
Andy Foster was born in Birmingham and brought up in Sutton Coldfield, but when he was young often stayed with an aunt in the Halesowen part of Blackheath. He read History of Art at Cambridge and was a Birmingham city councillor between 1980 and 1992. He is a member of the Lichfield Diocesan Advisory Commitee and the Birmingham Archdiocesan Historic Churches Commission. As well as the recently published Pevsner volume on Birmingham and the Black Country, he wrote a city guide to Birmingham (2005).
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Lecture Speaker: Dr John Hunt
John Hunt is a medievalist whose approach is interdisciplinary, and whose interests include lordship and community, landscape, and cultural history, particularly in the English western midlands and southwestern France. Working primarily on regional history and archaeology between the tenth and fourteenth centuries, his currentresearch is focussed particularly on religious landscapes, parish churches and their communities, on which he has recently had several articles published.
John Hunt, BA, PhD, FSA, FRHistS, PGCE, is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Birmingham, where he is also a member of the Centre for West Midlands History. Among his associations with national and local societies, he is the current President of the Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, and a past Chair (and current Vice-Chair) of the Council for British Archaeology, West Midlands.
