Barking and District Historical Society

LONDON & MIDDLESEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

48th Local History Conference

Saturday 16th November 2013
10.00am – 4.00pm

Weston Theatre, Museum of London

THE RIVER AND PORT OF LONDON

Fee, (including tea and biscuits):
£15; Early Bird £12 (until 1 November)
Tickets available from 1 September
Via Paypal LAMAS website or, c/o Eleanor Stanier, 48 Coval Road, East Sheen, London SW14 7RL

Displays by Local History Societies throughout the day

A changing port in a changing world.  London’s harbours from the 1st to the 18th  century.  Gustav Milne, Director of the Thames Discovery Programme.

Re-invention and Change: the Port of London from 1790-1938.
Chris Ellmers, Founding Director, Museum in Docklands.

Local history and the environmental history of the Thames 1960-2010. Vanessa Taylor, Research Fellow, Greenwich Maritime Institute.

‘Primus Omnium’, the world’s first modern police force. Robert Jeffries, Curator, Thames Police Museum.

The Thames  as a provider of drinking water. Mark Jenner, University of York.

‘The Thames Beautiful’- the artist’s perspective. Mireille Galinou, Arts and Museums Consultant, former Curator of Paintings, Prints and Drawings at the Museum of London.