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  • Trouble in Store: facing up to the archaeological archives crisis

    Trouble in Store: facing up to the archaeological archives crisis

    This year’s FAME Forum will consider the growing crisis facing our archaeological archives. Such has been the growth in fieldwork since 1990 that overstretched museums in many parts of the country are refusing to accept any more archaeological archives. As a result, FAME members are storing a growing volume of excavated material which is undeposited and inaccessible.

    • What is the extent of the problem?
    • What are the hidden costs to FAME members?
    • What is the research value and usage of archaeological archives?
    • What are their public benefits, and how can they be increased?
    • Whose responsibility is it to ensure they are properly stored and cared for?
    • Should we make greater use of digital technology?
    • Should we be more selective in what we retain from excavations?

    Held in association with the Society of Museum Archaeologists, the Forum will bring together speakers from both organisations to discuss how we can plan a more sustainable future for our archaeological archives. Speakers will include Roland Smith, Catherine Hardman, Stuart Campbell, David Allen, Quinton Carroll and Duncan Brown.

    The meeting will take place on Friday 1 July, at Merchant Taylors Hall, York. Admission is free to FAME and SMA members, and £50 to non-members, including lunch, morning coffee and afternoon tea. Advance booking is essential – for a booking form contact Hilda Young, 01722 343444, h.young@wessexarch.co.uk or click FAME Forum 2011.

  • FAME sponsors IfA Conference session

    For the first time, FAME is sponsoring a session at the annual IfA Conference. With the theme Understanding Significance, the conference and training event will take place at the University of Reading, from 13-15 April 2011.

    FAME is sponsoring the opening session on the Southport Group: towards a revitalisation of professional practice, chaired by MOLA Managing Director and FAME committee member Taryn Nixon, Chair of the Southport Group. (more…)

  • Making PPS5 work: realising the benefits of planning-led investigation of the historic environment

    Announcement of open workshops on improving practice

    24/25 January 2011

    Historic environment practitioners are invited to participate in a series of free open workshops. These will explore ways in which the historic environment sector across England can increase the benefits of planning-led work for the public, for the development sector and for the historic environment sector itself.

    Each workshop will focus on a different aspect of understanding and sharing the significance of the historic environment and will cover the diverse needs of the built, buried and underwater resource.

    Workshop discussions will lead to a report, to be published in April 2011, setting out a road map for change.

    Further details of the agenda for each workshop are available at www.archaeologists.net/Southport. Please let us know if you have any comments on these agendas by writing to the email address below.

    To book your place, please email southport@archaeologists.net, by 10 January 2011 indicating which of the four workshops you wish to attend. Workshops are free to attend but spaces will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. You are welcome to attend one workshop or several.

    The venue for all the workshops will be the Museum of London Docklands

    There will be four workshops, as follows:

    24 January

    10.00-1.30       Workshop 1:  How to achieve better quality in delivery (Chairs Peter Hinton, Stewart Bryant)

    2.30-6.00         Workshop 2:  How to achieve better opportunities for public participation and involvement in decision making, and improved quality of publication and dissemination (Chairs Mike Heyworth and Matthew Slocombe)

    25 January

    10.00-1.30       Workshop 3:  How to achieve proper compilation and transfer of archive material and improved access to archives (Chairs Duncan Brown and Hedley Swain, to confirm)

    2.30-6.00         Workshop 4:  How to achieve a better research focus in delivery, and how to address fragmentation in the sector (Chairs Chris Gosden, Adrian Tindall and Frank Kelsall)

    At a later date, a fifth workshop of invited delegates from the property sector will ask how we are to achieve clearer focus on the needs of the client (funding) body in terms of product and proportionality.

    These seminars are an initiative of the Southport Group see www.archaeologists.net/Southport for more details.

     

  • Presentations from “2020 Vision: a new era in British archaeology”

    The FAME Open Meeting in York 2020 Vision: a new era in British archaeology proved an important landmark, not just for FAME but perhaps the future of development-led archaeology in this country. It was attended by over seventy delegates, of whom two-thirds were FAME members, with the remainder from ALGAO, English Heritage and other organisations. The speakers offered a wide variety of perspectives on how development-led archaeology might need to change over the next decade in response to the publication of PPS5 and likely local government cuts. (more…)

  • 2020 Vision: a new era in British Archaeology

    FAME in association with ALGAO is pleased to announce a joint meeting in York on Friday 2nd July 2010 to discuss the potential impacts of the publication of PPS5: Planning for the Historic Environment. For further details, please download the leaflet.