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Announcing the 18th International ERBE (Heritage) Symposium, June 2027, Slovakia
We’re pleased to share news of the 18th International ERBE (Heritage) Symposium scheduled to take place in Slovakia in June 2027 – see the conference details and sign up for updates below 18th International ERBE Symposium 21st-26th June 2027 Cultural Heritage in Geosciences, Mining, and Metallurgy: Libraries – Archives and Collections 400th anniversary of the first documented blasting test in a mine Conference topics (presentations and posters): Main organizer: Slovak Mining Archives, Banská Štiavnica and the Slovak Mining Museum, Hodruša-Hámre, Slovakia. Conference and Abstracts languages: Slovak, English, German, (conference proceedings English only). Conference venue: Resort Hotel Salamandra, Hodruša-Hámre Estimated conference fee (also online): €140 Lectures are planned for the mornings…
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The Art of Researching Engines…
Three delightful images of a pair of Griff Colliery’s pumping engines near Nuneaton as they appeared in the mid Twentieth Century: pen and ink, some colour, and a photographic source of inspiration. Taken together they provide the historian, industrial archaeologist, early engine enthusiast, or just the artistically inclined alike, some food for thought. Cornish pumps in Bermuda? Bermuda? Yes, not exactly. Not *that* Bermuda. In the 1890s the expansion of the Griff Clara Colliery undertaking led to the establishment of small pit village; what is now Bermuda village, a suburb of Nuneaton and named as a nod to Sir Edward Newdigate Newdegate (1825–1902) of Astley Castle and Harbury Hall who…
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Support new work on Early Engines
A crucial aim of the International Early Engines Conference is to provide a platform for the significant amount of research into the early development of heat engines which powered us into the modern industrial era. Les Turnbull’s new work on William Brown is a perfect example of this rich seam of new material. The World of William Brown: Steam Engines – Coal Mines – Railways The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers intends to publish the results of Les Turnbull’s research into the life, work and impact of William Brown (d.1782) a largely forgotten but eminent mining engineer in the Great Northern Coalfield, and invited subscribers –…
