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24-26 September 2008 - The Hague, Netherlands

Proposed Programme

We are holding the conference in The Hague in the Netherlands from Wednesday 24 through to Friday 26 September 2008, we have secured accommodation at the Ibis Central in The Hague. We are fortunate to have been invited to visit the Royal Library and hold our lectures in the Auditorium there.

We are planning to arrive by early Wednesday Afternoon: (Luggage can be stored at the Ibis from 1pm). We then visit the Royal Library and see their Paper Collection and Conservation Studios, followed by the Welcome to the conference and lectures. That evening, we plan a Drinks Reception and Dinner at a local restaurant.

Thursday:
After breakfast we travel by coach to Arnhem Museum including the Martin Orgis Paper mill, lunch is available at the open air museum. Then on to the Middelste Paper Mill Loenen, which is water and steam powered. We return to the Hague for the Annual Dinner in the evening.

Friday:
Breakfast and then we spend the day at the Royal Library with a series of lectures, lunch and aim to finish the conference at 4pm.

Lectures to include:

Alan Crocker: Bryan Donkin Junior in St Petersburg in 1859.

Tatyana Petukova: Romeyn de Hooghe Prints/ Paper Analysis and Conservation Treatment.

If you would like to contribute a paper to the conference reflecting on any subject relating to paper and papermaking we would be delighted to hear from you at: barbara@bivelham.freeserve.co.uk or phil.crockett@btinternet.com

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Previous Conferences

22-24 June 2007: Chester Race Course, Chester
Visits to Chester County Archives, SCA Hygiene Products Oakenholt Mill and Grosvenor Museum, Chester

27-29 September 2006, Saint Omer, France
Visits to 'Maison a Papier' Museum and Cascades Blendeques Mill

24-26 June 2005, Royal Agricultural College, Chichester
Visits to Postlip Paper Mills, Winchcombe and Whittington Press, Lower Marston

2-4 July 2004, York

11-13 July 2003, University of Wales, Swansea
Visits to Georgia Pacific Bridgend Paper Mill and Thomas Jones Exhibition, Cardiff

5-7 July 2002, Ittre, Belgium
Visits to National Bank of Belgium in Brussels, Herisem Paper Mill at Alsemberg and Virginal Paper Mill

21-23 September 2001, Imperial College, Withersdane Hall, Wye, Kent
Visits to Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Maidstone Museum, Snodland Paper Mill, Mould-Makers Workshop

1-3 September 2000 : Collingwood College, University of Durham
Visits to Durham University Library, Vindolanda Trust (Hadrians Wall), Fourstones Paper Mill

10-12 September 1999 : Bath University, Bath
Visits to Industrial Heritage Centre, Bath, Wells Cathedral Archives, Wookey Hole Paper Mill, St Cuthberts Paper Mill

3-5 July 1998 : Weston Building, Manchester Conference Centre
Visits to Robert Fletchers Greenfield Mill, National Paper Museum and Whitworth Art Gallery Conservation Department

4-6 July 1997 : Christs College, Cambridge
Visits to Fitzwilliam Museum Conservation Department and Pepys Library, Magdalene College

5-7 July 1996: Pollock Halls, University of Edinburgh
Visits to Dalmore Paper Mill, Pencuik and Smith Anderson Mill, Leslie

15-16 Sep 1995 : Imperial College, London
Visit to Victoria & Albert Musem Conservation Department

23-25 Sep 1994: Hope Hall, Exeter University
Visits to Stowford Mill, Ivybridge and Exeter Cathedral Archives

17-19 September 1993 : St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
Visits to Wolvercote Paper Mill, Bodleian Library Conservation Department and Oxford University Press

17-19 July 1992 : University of Kent, Canterbury
Visits to Chartham Paper Mill and Canterbury Cathedral Archives

27-29 September 1991 : Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside, Cumbria
Visits to James Cropper’s Burnside Mill, The Armitt Collection and Heron Mill, Milnthorpe

28-30 September 1990 : Wookey Hole, Somerset
Visits to Wookey Hole Mill and St. Cuthberts Mill, Wookey

7 October 1989 : Museum of Science & Technology, Manchester.
Visit to the National Paper Museum

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