Professor Angus Buchanan and the early days of Industrial Archaeology
Foundation of the Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA)
From teaching, regional preservation projects and annual gatherings of pioneering industrial archaeologists at the University of Bath and then across the UK, the movement crystallised into a more formal national organisation with the foundation of the Association for Industrial Archaeology in 1973.
By 1970 … we decided that the Bath conference had to become peripatetic. It was at the Glasgow conference that Sir Arthur Elton brought an intense discussion to a close by moving a formal motion that at our next conference we should form ourselves into a national association. The resolution was carried …at the Isle of Man in 1973 … the annual conference transformed itself into the Association for Industrial Archaeology.
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