Book Launch- Keeping up appearances in Victorian Moseley
Saturday 16th September 2023. 10.00 am – 4.30 pm
at The Moseley Hive, 93 Alcester Rd, Birmingham B13 8DD
This is a special event with a dual purpose – as a book launch for Janet Berry’s new book “Moseley 1850 – 1900: Space, place and people in a middle-classBirmingham suburb” and as an opportunity to celebrate the enormous contribution Janet Berry has made over more than fifty years by researching, recording and publicising the history and heritage of Moseley. Janet has lived in Moseley since 1968 and throughout that time has been an active member of the Moseley Society and of its History Group in particular. In 2012, she took the lead in bidding for funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and successfully won a grant of £25,000 to help develop the Society’s Local History Archives and Resource base (known as ‘The Collection’). She enthusiastically led the subsequent project which produced a large archive of documents, artefacts, displays and booklets backed up by a substantial website, supporting educational sessions for local schools together with local talks, walks and workshops. She was a well-known figure at local history fairs in Moseley and beyond and was regarded as the ultimate authority on any questions relating to Moseley’s history. She will be greatly missed when she leaves Moseley this summer to live closer to her family.
Janet Berry has a doctorate from the University ofBirmingham for which her thesis was a study of Moseley’s development as a suburb and she has published a number of scholarly journal articles. This led her to produce this book embodying much of her earlier research, which is the subject of the book launch on Saturday 16th September.
Copies of the book will be available to buy on the day at the special discounted price of £12.50 (compared with a normal retail price of £16.99)
There will be a talk by Janet Berry with refreshments in the afternoon.
Tamworth Talk
To coincide with the Festival of British Archaeology from 15th-30th July 2023, Will Mitchell, the lead archaeologist on both community digs on the Castle Mill site in Tamworth Castle Grounds, will be delivering his talk on his findings at The Tap on Tuesday 18th July at 7pm. This promises to be a very interesting and insightful event.
The talk is taking place in the Top Tap on the second floor. No booking is necessary, but arrive early to secure your seat. Please remember it’s an over 18 only venue.
Please note that this talk is not in the Castle, it’s at the Tamworth Tap (an award-winning microbrewery which backs directly onto our herringbone wall) 29 Market Street, Tamworth. B79 7LR https://www.facebook.com/tamworthbrewingco
Castle Studies Trust Symposium
To mark its 10th anniversary, the Castle Studies Trust is organising a conference on the present state of castle studies and its future at the University of Winchester.
Book tickets here
Derbyshire Archaeological Society Winter Programme
BWAS members are invited to join the Derbyshire Archaeological Society for their winter lectures.
Find out more below.
https://www.derbyshireas.org.uk/diary/winter-programme/
Industrial Heritage Day (East Midlands Industrial Archaeology Conference)
Sudbury Gasworks rescued and restored
Saturday 17 June 2023
The Old Gasworks, in the Derbyshire village of Sudbury, opened in 1875 and was designed by George Devey, a noted architect of the time. Gas was produced from coal and piped to provide lighting for Sudbury Hall and houses in the village. The gasholder was dismantled in the 1930s and the building stood empty and deteriorated for many years.
With grants from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and other sources, the original retort house has now been restored, and a new circular meeting room constructed on the footprint of the former gasholder.
This Heritage Day is one of the first chances to see the gasworks in its new guise, learn about the development of artificial lighting and its use on country house estates, and the extensive improvements made to Sudbury Hall and the village in the 19th Century.
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/
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.
HS2 & LM: Coleshill Park Archaeology Open Day
Dates: 2nd & 3rd July 2022
Times: Multiple time slots available
Location: B46 1DP
We are excited to offer you the opportunity to visit a live archaeology site and speak to archaeologists who have been working on the site for years! You will be guided around the remains of a Medieval gatehouse while hearing the latest instalment of the Coleshill Park archaeology story. The tours also offer the chance to see what a live archaeological site looks like – maybe a future career in archaeology awaits you!
The excavations started in 2018 when Wessex Archaeology began investigating the fields around Coleshill Hall in preparation for the route of HS2. By 2021 archaeologists had uncovered Bronze Age burnt mounds, Iron Age and Romano-British settlements, medieval moats, a manor house and even the remains of a formal garden from the Elizabethan period. Wessex Archaeology has returned to the site this year to investigate the remains of a medieval gatehouse next to Coleshill Hall.
Archaeologists will be on hand to showcase their latest findings and chat through their work.
Find out more and book tickets