Making Connections

Links to related sites, societies and institutions

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Useful Sites

• James Watt 2019 website www.jameswatt2019.org
  • Excellent site covering the bicentenary of the death of James Watt. Providing rich content on events and collections available on Watt’s life and work.
• Engineering and Technology History Wiki (US/International)

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Societies – Engines, Engineering and the History of technology

• International/UK
  • International Stationary Steam Engine Society
  • Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering
  • Trevithick Society
  • Arkwright Society

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Industrial Archaeology

• Association for Industrial Archaeology (UK)
  • Regional Industrial archeology and history groups
    • Berkshire Industrial Archaeology Group
    • Bristol Industrial Archaeology Society – BRIAS
    • Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology
    • Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society
    • Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society
    • Manchester Region Industrial Archaeology Society (MRIAS)
    • Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society
    • Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group
    • North East Derbyshire Industrial Archaeology Society
    • Somerset Industrial Archaeology Society
    • South Yorkshire Industrial History Society
    • Staffordshire Industrial Archaeology Society
    • Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society
    • Worcestershire Industrial Archaeology & Local History Society

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Related history and research groups (UK)

• Mining
  • Northern Mine Research Society (NMRS)
  • Peak District Mines Historical Society (PDMHS)
  • South Gloucestershire Mines Research Society (SGMRG)
• Metallurgy
  • Historical Metallurgy Society

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National and International bodies

• ICOMOS -International Council on Monuments and Sites
• Europe
  • ERIH – European Route of Industrial Heritage
  • UK
    • England
      • Historic England
    • Scotland
      • Historic Scotland/Alba Aosmhor
    • Wales
      • Cadw

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Museums

• Germany
  • Deutsches Museum, Munich
• USA
  • Henry Ford museum, Dearborn, MI
  • Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
• UK
  • Science Museum, UK
• England
  • Beamish, County Durham
  • Black Country Living Museum, West Midlands
  • Elsecar Heritage Centre, South Yorkshire
  • Ironbridge Gorge Museums, Shropshire
• Scotland
  • National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
  • Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum, East Lothian
  • Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, North Lanarkshire

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Professsional Institutions

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USA
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK
• Institution of Civil Engineers, UK

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Archives and relevant resources

• The National Archives (TNA), Kew, UK
  • Find an archives in the UK and beyond
• National Records of Scotland, Scotland
• Archives Wales, Wales
• Birmingham Archives (Archives of Soho), Birmingham, UK
• Ironbridge Gorge Museums, Shropshire, UK
• Royal Society, London, UK
• Science Museum – National Collections Centre, UK

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