It’s not just about box sizes: Alternative archives in archaeological practice

Event hosted by CIfA Archaeological Archives Group and including the AAG AGM

Place: John Peek room, BMI, Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BS

Date: 25 March 2015

Start time: 10:00

Finish time: 16:30

Cost: £10 CIfA members

£20 non-members, including one year group membership (excludes lunch)

Tour of the new Staffordshire Hoard gallery at 15.30

Summary: This AGM event will involve cross-discipline discussion to find common ground and to consider specific archive issues arising from the differing ways of collecting archaeological data, and even provide mutual support.

For more details please visit the event web page at www.archaeologists.net/groups/archives, or book directly at the Eventbrite page www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alternative-archives-in-archaeological-practice-t...

Programme

10.00 Registration and tea

10.25-10.35 Introduction from AAG committee’s Chair, Duncan Brown

10.35-11.00 Speaker TBC: Geophysics Archives

11.00-11.25 Lynn Smith, Senior Keeper at Norton Priory: Archives held on site at a historic monument

11.25-11.50 Sarah Hayes, The Coffin Works

11.50-12.15 Hester Cooper-Reade, Albion Archaeology: Buildings archives

12.15-12.30 Discussion

12.30-13.00 AGM

13.00-14.00 Lunch (not provided)

14.00-14.25 Peter Allen, Bingham Heritage Trails: Community project archives

14.25-14.50 Nancy Grace, Collections and Engagement, National Trust: Archives at a national organisation

14.50-15.20 Discussion and tea

15.20 Close

15.30-16.30 Tour of the new Staffordshire Hoard Gallery at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

If you are interested in attending the tour of the new Staffordshire Hoard gallery, once you have booked and paid for the AGM event, please email Lianne Birney (lianne.birney [at] archaeologists.net) to book the tour.