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.