CIfA Archives Group

To promote best practice in the creation, compilation, transfer and curation of archaeological archives.

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🌟CALL FOR PAPERS🌟
We are looking for speakers for our next conference 'From Past to Future: Archiving 2000–2025' which will take place on 25 September 2025

Full details are available here: https://t.co/j9EQPmKBxJ…

To submit a paper, please fill in: https://t.co/Gasc5Upzmd

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Check out two archive roles at Headland Archaeology - Archives Officer and Senior Archivist - at:
https://t.co/qGFApfOweX

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Don't forget to sign up for the SMA's upcoming conference!!

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Join @SocMusArch's annual conference in Cardiff, Nov 7-8, in-person or online!

This year's theme, "Archaeology Lifelines," explores archaeology's impact on communities and what lifelines archaeology needs.

Join for engaging talks and networking👉 https://t.co/DfG8DMhPST

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Thank you to our speakers and everyone that came along to today's conference at @ChesterHouse_UK It was such a wonderful day full of insightful talks and conversation. See you all next year!!🎊

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It's the CIfA @ifa_archives Archives Annual Conference & AGM at the Northamptonshire Archaeological Resource Centre. We're getting back to basics and reminding ourselves why we get together in the first place - to share good practice & celebrate #archaeological #archives.

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An amazing final talk from Katie Miller at Shropshire Museums about their volunteering program 'Archaeology Lab'👏

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Some great community engagement case studies provided by Nina O'Hare and Kerry Whitehouse at Worcestershire Archives👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

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A fascinating talk by Beth Hodgett at the Pitt Rivers Museum about the project she is working on to illuminate their collections 👀

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A great kick off to the conference afternoon sessions by Steven Allen from York Archaeology, with a talk about their use of a fascinating timber collection🌲 @ChesterHouse_UK

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For our fourth talk, Claire Tsang from Historic England gave us a sum up of the Future for Archives Programme - lots of interesting projects going on!

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A fascinating third talk from Lucy Lawrence at Bucks County Council and Brett Thorn at Discover Bucks Museum about how they have utilised temporary displays to show 'just out of the ground' finds!!⚱️

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Second speaker Joseph Perry from The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery explained an ongoing project to review their archive boxes. A very useful data set that will likely have many important applications going forward 👏

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A fantastic talk to kick us off by Curator at the ARC, Ben Donnelly-Symes, about what the point of archiving is!! Thank you Ben🙂

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And we are off!! Today is our annual conference at @ChesterHouse_UK, and we are ready for a number of exciting archiving talks 🎊

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A German gun, dog tags, beer bottles, a toy camel & a makeup tin…evocative artefacts reveal more about life in a POW camp in Shropshire. @wessexarch @ADS_Update @ADS_Chatter @explorearchives #EYAJourneys @wsp @InstituteArch @shrewsmuseum

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Archaeologists reveal life at a WWII British POW camp | Wessex Archaeology

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Collection Highlight – Investigation at Oswestry Bypass, Shropshire 2020-2021 at the WWII Mile End POW camp – Archaeology Data Service

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Digital Archive from a Strip, Map and Sample Excavation and Metal Detecting Survey at Oswestry Bypass, Shropshire 2020-2021: Introduction (https://t.co/4q03ED05h6)