Merseyside Archaeological Society
Membership
The Society currently has around 100 members. If you would like to join, download and fill in the form below, and send it to the Membership Secretary at Eveline.Van-Der-Steen@liverpool.ac.uk.
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Current Activities
The MAS currently organises a number of activities:
- Monthly lectures from Autumn to Spring on a range of local, national and international topics of archaeological interest (also open to the general public)
- Day excursions on one Saturday a month in the summer months
- Weekend excursions from time to time
- Fieldwork projects in collaboration with local professionals
- Publication of a peer-reviewed archaeological journal
- Publication of a newsletter for members
Interactive Mapping Project at the new Museum of Liverpool
As part of the History Detectives resource in the new Museum of Liverpool it is planned to install a huge interactive map of Merseyside which will enable visitors to explore the history of the place in which they live. The intention is to allow the visitor to click onto a location on the map and view historical photographs, read a brief history of the place and hear local recollections. Although the project will primarily be a visual aid more detailed information will be available for those who require it and it will be possible to link together places, buildings and people where appropriate.
Merseyside Archaeological Society has been asked to contribute material for this exhibition. The starting point is to be information already available in the Society’s ‘Changing Face of Liverpool’ which was published in 2007. The gazetteer entries will require editing to ensure the right level of detail is incorporated and some additional work will be needed to track down photographs and other archive material. Other entries from the wider Merseyside region will be included where they are available. It is hoped that there will be at least 6 entries per township when phase 1 of the project goes live later this year.
This is a very exciting and ambitious project which is on a very tight timescale. Volunteers are required to help edit the material in the ‘Changing Face of Liverpool’, a task which should be complete by the end of September 2010. In addition anyone who has conducted, say a buildings survey or a local history project, within a Merseyside township and is willing to contribute material for this project, should get in touch with me urgently. Dave Roberts, Tel: 0151 427 2980 e-mail: drandpr@blueyonder.co.uk.
