Category: Council for British Archaeology

Marsh Awards for 2025 Now Open

Marsh Awards for 2025 Now Open

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The Council for British Archaeology is partnering with the Marsh Charitable Trust in delivering this year’s Marsh Community Archaeology Awards. The deadline for the Awards is noon on Monday 26 May 2025. The Trust supports organisations and people who make a difference within the charity sector. The Marsh Community Archaeology Awards celebrate the outstanding contributions of these people who are committed to social, cultural, and environmental causes. The Awards have two categories.

• Community Archaeologist of the Year – This award recognises an individual volunteer or professional who is going above and beyond their role to contribute to community archaeology.

• Community Archaeology Project of the Year – This award recognises and promotes the results of research and/or fieldwork led by community groups which have made a substantial contribution to knowledge and wellbeing.

Museum professionals and projects that work with communities are eligible, which of course includes industrial heritage sites. You can find out more about the upcoming awards here:

https://www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/archaeology-awards/the-marsh-community-archaeology-awards.html

The Marsh Charitable Trust was founded in 1981 with the sum of £75,000 by its current Chairman, Mr Brian Marsh OBE. His aim was to create a sustainable way to give something back to society, by supporting the organisations and people who are making a difference, as best he could. From the outset the Trust has aimed to create long-standing relationships with the organisations it supports and partners through both its principal areas of work; the Grants Programme and the Awards Scheme. The Trust supports around 350 charities every year through the Grants Programme and gives around 80 different Awards to individuals and groups from across the charity sector, who make a difference to a cause that they believe in.

Festival of Archaeology 2024: Free Entry to the Museum of Iron, Coalbrookdale, 27 July

Festival of Archaeology 2024: Free Entry to the Museum of Iron, Coalbrookdale, 27 July

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As part of the national Festival of Archaeology 2024, organised by the Council for British Archaoelopgy, the 27th July will see free entry to Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, as the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (IGMT) hosts a special day-long event.

A series of talks, walks, and tours will take place throughout the day, and local historical and archaeological societies and groups will be on-site talking to visitors about their work.

Find out more on the IGMT website: https://bit.ly/3L6QHes

This event is sponsored by the Association for Industrial Archaeology.

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Heritage Wellbeing and Heritage Conference 2024

Heritage Wellbeing and Heritage Conference 2024

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The Wellbeing & Heritage Working Group is calling for papers, contributions, and activities from heritage practitioners, researchers, and participants in heritage health and wellbeing projects for a conference to be held on 20 – 21 March 2024 at Delapre Abbey, Northampton. Participation in the conference is free. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Participants will need to cover their own travel and overnight accommodation. However, there is a small fund available to help participants whose expenses cannot be covered elsewhere. The deadline for submission of proposals is 15 January 2024.

The Wellbeing & Heritage Working Group is coordinated by the Council for British Archaeology and Historic England, and was set up to create an opportunity to share knowledge and experience from across the heritage and archaeology sector and other related sectors. It is part of the Council for British Archaeology’s collaborative work with a range of groups and organisations across the archaeology and heritage sector. 

The event is organised and supported by Historic England, The Council for British Archaeology, Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities (SIAH) and Delapre Abbey, with the participation and help of the sector-wide Wellbeing and Heritage Working Group. Further details on the conference can be found here: https://www.archaeologyuk.org/what-we-do/collaborative-projects/wellbeing-and-heritage-conference-2024.html

Council for British Archaeology Survey: ‘Taking the Temperature’ of Archaeological Groups and Societies Today

Council for British Archaeology Survey: ‘Taking the Temperature’ of Archaeological Groups and Societies Today

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2024 marks the 80th anniversary of the Council for British Archaeology (CBA), the UK’s leading archaeology charity. In the run up to the anniversary they are conducting a survey of the current state of grass roots archaeology in Britain.

The CBA were instrumental in promoting and developing industrial archaeology in Britain, staging the first regional and national conferences on the subject in 1959 and campaigning for the saving of important national industrial sites in the 1960s and 1970s. Its support for industrial archaeology and heritage continues into the 21st century, through its listed building case work, publications, and wider advocacy. With its 80th anniversary imminent, the CBA is thinking about the communities that make up the archaeology and heritage sector today.

They have put together a survey for archaeological/historical groups, so that they can build a picture of community and grassroots archaeology in the Britain. This includes, of course industrial archaeology and heritage societies and groups, and volunteers running industrial heritage sites. If you belong to such a group or help run an industrial site, then please fill in the survey and send it on to anyone else you think might be interested. You’ll play a huge part in helping the CBA better understand grassroots archaeology – and you’ll be in with a chance to win £100 for your society!

Please follow this link to the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XDGZ3XS

The closing date for responses is 12 pm on Monday 11th December.