Professor Angus Buchanan and the early days of Industrial Archaeology
Broadening appeal
Even as industrial archaeology was finding its feet as an academic discipline its champions were seeking ways to capture wider popular interest and further the cause beyond universities and colleges. In Bristol Professor Buchanan and his colleagues offered courses to the local community from the New Folk House Adult Education Centre which eventually led to the establishment of the Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society.
He wrote:
Encouraged by the local interest in the burgeoning subject of industrial archaeology, we established an extramural class in the subject which ran for three years, and such was its popularity that we converted it into a society - the Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society (BIAS), founded in 1967.
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