Other events

In addition to the regular evening meetings, the Society runs a number of conferences, visits and social events:

• the annual Summer Meeting
• (additional Spring or Autumn Meeting - some years only)
• occasional conferences
• visits to places of interest in the UK
• an annual Social Evening

The full programme of visits planned for this session will be announced in due course. See also Visits for more details.

Annual Summer (and Spring) Meetings

Every year we run a summer meeting - sometimes overseas - with visits, talks and social gatherings. Find out more about the programme for this year's Meetings. Past Meetings have been in such places as:

• Australia
• Bohemia
• Brabant
• Budapest
• Germany
• New England
  
• Northern Ireland
• Spain
• Sweden
  - plus many places in Great Britain

Get the flavour of these events from the account of a Summer Meeting in Brabant, published in Links: the bulletin of the Newcomen Society.

Members at a famous oil mill near Eindhoven.

Visits

One-day visits are organised from London and by the branches. Find out more about our programme of forthcoming visits for this year.

In the past few years we have arranged visits to such places as:

• The Falkirk Wheel
• Morwhellam Quay in Devon
• the Steam Museum at Kew
• disused underground stations
• Astrium Space Company
• a P&O container ship in Southampton
• the Walsall Leather Museum
• Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter

Ship and railway at Morwellham Quay

Conferences

The Society runs conferences, sometimes in conjunction with other national and international bodies. Find out more about forthcoming conferences.

Previous conferences have been on such subjects as:

• Thomas Newcomen
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• Thomas Tredgold
• Aspects of Technological Change 1900-1939
• Scottish engineers and engineering
• George Stephenson
• Babbage and Faraday
• André Chapelon
• Sir Charles Parsons

Social evening

In recent years we have organised a social evening in February, at the Artworkers Guild in London. Find out more.

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