The Historical Metallurgy Society, in association with Brunel University London, presents an online half-day conference, A Metallurgical Miscellany, to precede its AGM on Saturday 5th June 2021.
The morning will be devoted to short metallurgical papers ranging in date from antiquity to the present and including both ferrous and non-ferrous topics.
A full programme and conference abstracts will be available here: https://historicalmetallurgy.org/current-events/agm-2021/
This event is free to all, but advance booking is required. Details about how to join the online conference will be circulated, in advance of the event, to those who have registered to attend.
LiME Hub Member Dr. Chamini Mendis will be giving a talk titled “Bright sparks to engine blocks: The history of magnesium, the lightest of the structural metals”.
Programme
All Times below are British Summer Time (GMT + 1 hour)
The morning session will have a brief break midway through.
10.00 – 10.10 Welcome (Lorna Anguilano)
10.10 -10.35 The bad side of recycling: The use of ancient coins as a source of material for counterfeits (Laura Perucchetti and A Dowler)
10.35 -11.00 Roman mould technology for small castings (Justine Bayley)
11.15 -11.40 A very compleat paper trail (Peter Northover)
11.40 -12.05 The context of the British Iron Act of 1750 (Peter King)
12.05 -12.30 Bright sparks to engine blocks: The history of magnesium, the lightest of the structural metals (Chamini Mendis)
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break
During this time we will screen two films submitted for the 2020 online Woodford Furnace Festival, which aims at reviving the production of iron in Ireland using only local materials:
Smelting Irish bog iron ore in Master Kihara's tatara furnace, Japan
Current bloomery iron production in Yakutia, Russia
The afternoon session will start with a keynote lecture from the HMS Chairman that will be followed by an Extraordinary General Meeting and then the HMS Annual General Meeting.
13.30-14.00 The rising of the smith (Paul Rondelez)
14.00-15.00 HMS EGM followed by HMS AGM
Conference abstracts and papers for EGM/AGM are available here.