POTS, PEOPLE, PROCESSES
 
A Joint Conference of
THE SOCIETY FOR POST-MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
and THE NORTHERN CERAMIC SOCIETY
 
To be held in Stoke-on-Trent, U. K.
 
Friday 24th April - Sunday 26th April 1998
 
The theme of this conference is recent work on British ceramics from both
historical and archaeological perspectives. Over thirty speakers, pre-eminent in
 
their field, will deal with pottery manufacturing and firing technology, pottery
 
types, factory excavations and waste assemblages, distribution and
consumption,all of which represent some four centuries of British ceramic
developments. This promises to be one of the most important ceramic conferences
of recent years, which will lay the foundations for ceramic research into the
next millennium.
 
Subjects include:
 
The excavation of an 18th-century potworks at Shelton Farm, Stoke-on-Trent
 
Delftware production at Wapping, London
 
The technology of Nottingham Brown Salt-glazed stoneware
 
Pots and Potters of Ticknall, Derbyshire
 
The Development of the Coalport China Works
 
Excavations at, and finds from J. & P. Bell's Pottery, Glasgow
 
The Archaeology of the Forth Potteries
 
Pottery and Porcelain finds from a 'new' factory site at Isleworth, Middlesex
 
19th-century Staffordshire Ceramics for the American Market
 
Pottery from a 19th-century China Dealer's shop in Exeter
 
Excavations at Dudson's Factory, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
 
Ceramics from 19th-century Chester Households
 
Ceramics from an early 19th-century inn at Uxbridge
 
Excavation and renovation of a Pottery Kiln at Nantgarw, S. Wales
 
300 years of Buckley Pottery
 
Recent work into the study of redwares (including Metropolitan slipwares) from
Harlow, Essex
 
The conference will include the opportunity, on Saturday night, to view the
exhibiition 'Digging for Early Porcelain', to be held at the City Museum & Art
Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, which examines the contribution of archaeology to the
study of early porcelain production in England and Scotland. A series of short
papers is devoted to this theme.
 
The conference is 55GBP for members/65GBP for non-members,and includes lunches
on all three days. The conference is non-residential.
 
For further information, please contact:
 
DAVID BARKER, Keeper of Archaeology, City Museum & Art Gallery, Hanley,
Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 3DE, U. K. Tel +44 (0)1782 232323, Fax +44 (0)1782 232500 or
 
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