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IA on the Web - Links to other web sites
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Societies & Organizations |
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The Association for Industrial Archaeology organization is for people who share an interest in Britian's industrial past. This site provides information on the benefits of membership, details on joining, schedule of events, abstracts of a recent IA Review and a subject index to IA Review as well as links to other IA related sites. |
| HAER- Historic American Engineering Record of the National Park Service |
| Institute for the History of Technology & Industrial Archaeology http://www.as.wvu.edu/ihtia/ IHTIA carries out historical IA site documentation, studies in the history of technology, consultations and sponsored research on America's industrial heritage for federal, state, and local agencies, aid in the preservation of engineering works and development of techniques for structural analysis of historic and obsolete structural materials, sponsorship and participation in seminars and conferences in the history of technology, industrial archaeology, and the history and preservation of engineering works. |
| The Newcomen Society (UK) for the study of the history of engineering and technology is a membership organization, located in London, England. Members are interested in all phases of engineering; civil, mechanical, electrical, structural, aeronautical, marine, chemical and manufacturing. The Society has regular evening meetings where original research papers are presented, summer meetings in the UK and other countries, local visits of interest as well publishing two publications, Links: the bulletin of the Newcomen Society (newsletter) and the Transactions of the Newcomen Society (Past issues are also online). |
| TICCIH - The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage |
| Public Works Historical Society promotes the study and preservation of public works. |
| The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) was formed in 1958 and is dedicated to the historical study of technology and its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and the arts. SHOT includes almost 1500 individual members and 1000 institutional subscribers. An international society, SHOT meets annually in North America or Europe and also jointly sponsors smaller conferences focused on more specialized topics of common interest with other scholarly societies and organizations. Technology and Culture, a quarterly journal, is published by The Johns Hopkins University Press for the Society for the History of Technology. SHOT's Current Bibliography in the History of Technology is also published as part of Technology and Culture. In addition, SHOT publishes a quarterly newsletter, available on this Website, and, jointly with the American Historical Association, a booklet series, Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society, and Culture. |
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The Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) The SHA was formed in 1967 and is the largest scholarly group concerned with the archaeology of the modern world (A.D. 1400 to the present). The main focus of the SHA is the period since the beginning of European exploration. This site provides information about Historical Archaeology, membership, on-line services, publications, annual meetings, research tools and careers in historical archaeology. |
| Somerset (UK) Industrial Archaeology Society (http://mysite.freeserve.com/sias). Activities of IA group in England analogous to SIA local chapters. An impressive sales list of pocket-size booklets on Somerset County industrial sites. |