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SUMMARY:'From craftsman’s bench to factory floor: the Birmingham Rule Trade 1750-1920' by David Bryden
DESCRIPTION:Joining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register\nJoining us ONLINE – click on this zoom link before the event to join in. \nDuring the 19th century\, there was a marked change in the structure and form of the rule-making trade in Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Making rules for tradesmen across the UK and abroad to measure\, lay-out and calculate\, effectively vanished from Wolverhampton. Established craft skills\, practiced in small Birmingham workshops by a skilled master\, assisted by trained journeymen using techniques passed onto apprentices\, were swept aside by mechanisation. \nDespite the active opposition of time-served journeymen\, unskilled young operatives of both genders came to dominate a growing workforce\, along with a decline in the number of employers and the emergence of a few large manufacturing units – the rule factory. A leading activist in this change was the entrepreneurial John Rabone II (1820-1892). \nInformal and formal records kept by the Rabone business and preserved in Sheffield and Birmingham\, together with data drawn from Census returns\, the local press\, and publications by or for the rule manufacturers\, have been examined for the first time. \nAbout the Speaker\nDavid J. Bryden BSc MA PhD FSA took a degree in engineering at Leicester in 1964 followed by a year taking a taught course in the history and philosophy of science at Oxford. \nDavid was then employed for nearly four decades in various national and university museums. His PhD (Cambridge 1993) was awarded on the basis of publications on early scientific instruments and the British instrument making trade. \nRetiring to the West Midlands\, David has continued to research and publish.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/from-craftsmans-bench-to-factory-floor-the-birmingham-rule-trade-1750-1920-by-david-bryden/
LOCATION:BIRMINGHAM Think Tank\, Birmingham Science Museum\,\, Curzon Street\, Birmingham\, West Midlands\, B4 7XG
CATEGORIES:Shed Talks (Newcomen Online),UK - Midlands Branch
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SUMMARY:'The Trinity House Story' by David Whitehead & Mike Hawthorne
DESCRIPTION:This event is both an in-person and on-line event. No need to register – just come along or click this zoom link to join on-line. \nHave you ever wondered who looks after the major lighthouses around England\, Wales and the Channel Islands? How did they come to be there in the first place? \nIncorporated by Royal Charter by Henry Vlll in 1514\, Trinity House is today a vital part of Britain’s maritime community. In addition to owning and operating lighthouses\, lightvessels\, beacons and buoys to keep safe all mariners at sea around our shores\, Trinity House is called in to mark – and clear if required – wrecks\, help develop state of the art electronic navigation tools for vessels of all sizes to overcome the vulnerabilities of GPS\, and to act as Nautical Assessors in Admiralty Court cases. \nAdd to that a sizeable maritime fraternity which regularly advises on current maritime issues and future opportunities\, and a charitable side that donates in excess of £5m a year to worthy maritime causes\, and you start to get a picture of Trinity House. Then add cadet schemes to train future Merchant Navy mariners and leisure seafarers\, almshouses for the use of retired mariners\, holidays in converted lighthouses and even public tours and private receptions offered in its stunning historical London HQ on Tower Hill. \nAbout the Speaker\nDavid Whitehead OBE is a former Director of the British Ports Association (1993 to 2016) and Director of Policy\, British Ports Federation (1990 – 1993). David led the ports industry through a period of great change. He was heavily involved in the development of the Port Marine Safety Code and was a member of the Port Marine Safety Code Steering Group\, which led on navigational safety policy for the entire maritime sector\, for many years.  David was also Chairman of the European Seaports Organisation for four years where he was responsible for leading on ports policy\, including marine and navigational issues\, with the EU institutions.  In 2010\, he was awarded the OBE for his services to the UK ports industry. \nCaptain Mike Hawthorne OBE RN has been a Younger Brother of Trinity House since 2021.  His 36 years in the Royal Navy included working with Diesel and Nuclear Submarines\, Naval Intelligence\, Naval Procurement and Crisis Management Fleet Command.  His roles included Navigation Training Officer\, Command of HMS Tireless\, Director Naval Intelligence Collection\, Naval Operations and Command of Joint Forces Cyber Group.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/the-trinity-house-story-by-david-whitehead-mike-hawthorne/
LOCATION:LONDON  Alan Baxter Gallery\, 75 Cowcross St\, Clerkenwell\, London\, EC1M 6EL
CATEGORIES:Shed Talks (Newcomen Online),UK - London Branch
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SUMMARY:'Went the day well? - We plan\, the Gods laugh: Success and Failure on D-Day' by Dr Phil Judkins
DESCRIPTION:Joining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register\nplease email meetings.syorks@newcomen.com for zoom link \nThe Allies’ success at D-Day paved the way for victory in Europe. The fighting in Normandy continued until August 1944\, when Paris was liberated. \nMany of the immediate strategic objectives of the landings were not achieved\, including the failure to capture any of the key towns. But D-Day was still a huge success. More than 160\,000 Allied troops and 6\,000 vehicles had crossed the Channel and established a foothold in France. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Phil Judkins’ love of industrial archaeology stems from his childhood playground being an abandoned Victorian waterworks\, with no Health and Safety to concern him! Cambridge’s Classical Archaeology course led to several years in ‘dirt archaeology’\, followed by a management career which ranged from the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment to the City of London. Phil then gave structure to his abiding interest of historic defence electronics through a Cranfield PhD in the history of radar\, and successive Fellowships at the UK’s Defence Academy and at Buckingham University’s Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies. \nHe currently chairs the Defence Electronics History Society and the Purbeck Radar Museum Trust\, in addition to serving on the Committee of the South Yorkshire Newcomen Society\, and lectures on defence topics throughout the UK\, Phil’s particular perspective is to present the role of electronics in conflict as seen by all the contending parties\, rather than from a single national perspective\, so that he welcomes collaboration with colleagues internationally.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/went-the-day-well-we-plan-the-gods-laugh-success-and-failure-on-d-day-by-dr-phil-judkins/
LOCATION:SHEFFIELD Kelham Island Museum\, Alma Street\, Sheffield\, South Yorkshire\, S3 8RG
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