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Free Online Talks and Training Videos for Industrial Heritage Sites in Early 2025

January 16, 2025mikenevell

The early new year is often a time for charities and musuems to undertake staff training and maintenance in the ‘off season’. Online, several organisation offer free training and briefing videos relevant for industrial heritage sites. Some of the recent offerings listed below provide an opportunity for armchair training.

The East-West Workshops on Industrial Archaeology aim to exchange ideas and knowledge among Western and Eastern colleagues to build a more international and diverse industrial archaeology. The workshops are organised jointly by the Institute for Cultural Heritage and History of Science and Technology (USTB, China), and the Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA) together with its Young Members Board. Videos of all the workshops are available on the AIA’s YouTube Channel, including the latest event from November 2024 on ‘Weaving the Industrial Period’. Follow this link to view the workshops: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILr2TkRAOIfk_NKchshwZQ

On Thursday 21st November 2024 the ‘Craft of the Miller’ network held an online conference on ‘Managing Health & Safety Risks in Your Mill’. Jon Cook gave an introduction to highlight a number of key risks in a working mill, including hygiene, flour dust, vacuum equipment, and fire risks. Jippe Kreuning explored how to work with a stone crane and how to operate it safely to lift a set of millstones. You can catchup with the recordings from the conference here: https://network.molens.nl/

Finally, Historic England have a range of heritage webinars to watch with topics from flooding, embodied carbon, and renewabler energy, to heritage building skills, roofs, and windows. The Historic Environment Webinars strand includes a session on the role and work of the Canal & River Trust form November 2024. Follow this link to view the webinars: https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/training-skills/training/webinars/recordings/#technicaltuesdays

Museum Development Midlands ‘Recruiting Volunteers’ Training, January 2025

December 29, 2024mikenevell

Museum Development Midlands (MDM) is running an evening online training session in January 2025 around how Museum Trustees can recruit volunteers.

Many of the Midland region’s museums rely on volunteers and since the Covid-19 pandemic it’s been increasingly tough for industrial museums across England to recruit and retain the volunteer capacity they need to operate. This reflects a wider picture across the voluntary sector with surveys suggesting that the majority of organisations are finding volunteer recruitment difficult. In this tough climate, what can museums do to attract and retain the committed, skilled, volunteers that they need?

This practical session of ideas and approaches to volunteer recruitment will be held on 20 January 2025, online, 6pm to 8.30pm. More details here.

SPAB Mills November Day Event: Mills at Risk

November 20, 2024mikenevell

Join SPAB on Saturday 30 November, 10am – 4.45pm , for a day of online talks about windmills and watermills that are currently or have been in the past listed on the Heritage at Risk Register.

What happens when a mill is added to the Heritage at Risk Register? What steps can you take to protect a mill from different risks? And why do some restored mills remain at risk? This is a unique opportunity to hear from a range of mill professionals – including volunteers and millwrights. You’ll have a chance to have your questions answered and will receive a recording of the talks after the event.

Follow this link to book a place: https://www.spab.org.uk/whats-on/lectures/spab-mills-day-event-mills-risk

*Sibsey Trader Mill cap undergoing restoration. Image courtesy of SPAB mills section.*

Mills Archive Trust’s ‘Living Heritage Appeal’

November 11, 2024mikenevell

Milsl Archive Trust volunteers learning new archibing skills. Image couresy fo the Mills Archive Trust.

The Mills Archive Trust’s ‘Living Heritage’ appeal is designed to keep alive the legacy of millers and millwrights found within the Trust’s archives, sharing this knoweldge with the public and providing life-changing experiences for their volunteers.

The Mills Archive Trust is a permanent repository for the documentary and photographic records of traditional and contemporary mills and milling, as well as similar structures dependent on traditional power sources, in the UK and beyond. It makes that material freely available for public inspection and use in research and learning.

Their latest appeal is designed to help volunteers acquire the skills needed to catalogue archives relating to specific millers and wind and watermill restorers and experts, such as David Nicholls (1938-2020), and Alan Stoyel. Not only does that help to save these archives and improve public access to them, but the skills acquired help many volunteers to find work within the hertiage sector.

The Mills Archive is one of the world’s great mill collections. It has rescued over three million documents and images that might otherwise have ended up in a landfill site. It is an Aladdin’s cave filled with memories and is free to use. The collections show the rich and diverse crafts, buildings, machinery, equipment, and people involved with mills in the UK and around the world. There is an urgent need to record and make public the technical details of these crafts and the potential impact of the loss of this aspect of our shared cultural heritage.

To donate to the Trust follow this link: https://new.millsarchive.org/donate/

Emergency and Risk Management Network: Extreme Environments Training for Museums, 5 November 2024

October 28, 2024mikenevell

Join Museum Development Midlands (MDM) and Anita Hollinshead for this session exploring extreme environments and their impact on conditions in museums, collections, visitors, and staff on 5th November. The free workshop will include a number of case studies and measures that can be put in place to minimise risks.

Delegates will be encouraged to share their own experiences of extreme weather conditions, including high temperatures, flooding, and storms and the impact of climate change on collections management, all issues familiar on for industrial heritage sites. This workshop is part of MDM’s Emergency and Risk Management Network, helping museums prepare for emergency situations and develop skills in risk management and mitigation.

Places are limited to a maximum two delegates per organisation. Priority will be given to delegates from non-NPO and non-National museums in the Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation. You’re welcome to book a place if you are not from a priority museum, including non-Accredited museums, on the understanding we may ask you to release your place if the event becomes oversubscribed. Fololow this linbk to book the free trainbign session: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-and-risk-management-network-extreme-environments-tickets-1028753909637?aff=oddtdtcreator

Caring for Your Collection Webinars From the Mills Archive Trust

October 21, 2024mikenevell

The Mills Archive Trust are hosting a two-part webinar on fundamental archiving skills on Saturday 23 and 30 November, between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm GMT. Whether you are an individual collector or part of an organisation, caring for old documents or digital files, their professional archivist will guide you through protecting and sharing your records.

The Mills Archive Trust is an accredited Archive and award-winning educational charity dedicated to caring for the history of mills and milling. They care for records ranging from centuries-old manuscripts to digital files. Their professional archivist, along with their archival volunteers, will help your industrial heritage site do the same in these two webinars.

To learn more about the Caring for Your Collection webinars and to join, visit https://new.millsarchive.org/caring-for-your-collection/ or email The mills Arcvhive Trust at friends@millsarchive.org.

Icon Industrial Heritage Conservation Accreditation Workshop

October 14, 2024mikenevell

Icon is hosting an industrial heritage conservation accreditation workshop at Imperial War Museum Duxford on 28 October. If you work in industrial conservation and are interested in finding out more about Icon accreditation, then this is the workshop for you.

This free workshop event will cover:

Learn about the basics of Icon accreditation, what it involves and how it can benefit your you and your organisation.
Listen to real examples of Industrial conservation projects and understand how these meet the Icon assessment criteria.
Discuss the unique challenges of industrial conservation and explore how these can be presented in an Icon assessment.
Lots of opportunity for Q&A!

To find out more and to book follow this link

Industrial Heritage Network Meetings in Person – Autumn 2024

September 30, 2024October 7, 2024mikenevell

The next round of in-person Industrial Heritage Network (IHN) regional meetings will be taking place this autumn. These regional network meetings take place twice a year in the spring (online) and in the autumn (in-person). They are a chance to bring together volunteers and professionals from industrial heritage sites around England to exchange experiences, catch up with the latest news and practices, and make or renew contacts. There are ten regional networks in England run by the IHSO project at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, and funded by Historic England, with the support of the Association for Industrial Archaeology.

The first four in-person IHN meetings will be held this autumn for the following regions:

North West England, Catalyst Museum, 25th October 2024.
Cornwall & Devon, East Pool Mine, Redruth, 7th November 2024.
South West, Westonzoyland, 8th November 2024.
West Midlands, Claymills, 22nd November, 2024

Further dates for other regions will be published in October. Regional network members will be emailed details of the venues and how to attend. For further details contact the Industrial Heritage Support Officer for England: mike.nevell@ironbridge.org.uk

Free Online Course on How to Create Effective Video Content for Your Charity Using Your Phone

September 3, 2024September 2, 2024mikenevell

The Saltways are offering charities the opportunity to learn to create video content. Film and video have been used for many years to illustrate the processes and lives of industrial heritage sites and workers. Now smart phones have brought the use of video to a mass audience.

The Saltways team are offering a free 60 minute practical workshop for charities on the 10th or 31st October on how to create a video for your site using a smart phone. The training session will cover: learning how to plan your films to get the best results possible; learning technical tips on how to improve your footage and sound; and an introduction into editing and how to build a campaign around your film. There will also be a chance to ask questions and get feedback on your footage.

To book your free place follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-create-effective-video-content-using-your-phone-tickets-927311663147?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Saltways are specialists in charity films. They aim to help the charity sector produce more authentic, inspiring, compelling films ethically, openly, and collaboratively. For more details about The Saltways follow this link: https://thesaltways.com/ethical-storytelling/

ERIH 2024 Summer School “Shaping Sustainability in Industrial Heritage” Now Booking

April 11, 2024April 11, 2024mikenevell

For the second time, ERIH, the Berlin Centre for Industrial Heritage and the Department of Culture and Design at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin) are hosting the European Industrial Heritage Summer School from 10 to 25 August 2024 in Berlin. The intense 14-day programme, which was recognised with the “Best Practice Award” of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe in 2023, is a unique combination of academic discussions, site visits and workshops and offers a holistic learning experience.

This year, the focus is on the question of how industrial heritage sites can become places of sustainable development. The programme is aimed at 18- to 30-year-old international students from various disciplines, including museum studies, cultural studies, history, industrial archaeology, cultural and tourism management, sociology, architecture and urban planning as well as conservation, sustainability and communication studies. Students from other disciplines are also welcome. Eligible are all bachelor, master or doctoral/PhD students who have completed at least their 2nd semester and who are enrolled at a university.

Applications are now open. From 5 April, admissions will be granted on a weekly basis until all 22 places have been filled. Follow this link for booking details:

European Industrial Heritage Summer School

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