The Railway & Canal Historical Society are running its 9th Waterways History Conference in Birmingham, to which anyone interested is invited. The cost is £22, including coffee and lunch.There is a booking form at http://www.rchs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/9WHC-booking-form.pdf.
Waterways History Conference – Birmingham University, 24th June 2017
The programme for the Conference, which runs from 10.00 to 16.30 and will be chaired by Tony Hirst OBE, is:
‘Developing a Research Agenda for Inland Waterways History’ – Dr Paul Sillitoe
‘Why Canal History Matters’ - Dr Jodie Matthews
‘Discovering waterway history through records, photographs and publications’ – Ray Shill
‘George Jebb, railway and canal engineer’- Prof Timothy Peters.
‘Waterways Family Research’ – Lorna York
‘Understanding early English canal technology - an Austrian view’ – Mike Clarke
‘Artefacts in Research’ – Zofia Kufeldt, NWM
‘The Cong Canal’ – Brian Goggin
… as well as a set of summaries of on-going research. There will also be a plenary discussion of the possible ways ahead for waterways history research, to which everyone will have the opportunity to contribute.