Cheshire History Association
Cheshire History Day
Saturday 19th October 2024
"The Future of Cheshire's Past"
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Paul Newman - The future of Cheshire Archives: a story shared
Paul leads the major National Lottery Heritage Funded project to relocate the Cheshire Archives service and to engage a more diverse audience with archives. He is the Archives and Heritage Manager, responsible for the leadership of archives,
heritage engagement and museum collections teams.
Mark Leah - Revealing Cheshire’s Past: recent work on Roman sites in and around Chester and discoveries at Middlewich.
Mark Leah is Senior Historic Environment Planning Officer (Archaeology), Cheshire. He has been providing archaeological development management advice in Cheshire for 25 years, originally to Cheshire County Council and its District Councils and, more recently, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington Councils. Prior to this Cheshire, Mark surveyed and excavated sites in the Fenland Project (Norfolk) and in the North West Wetlands Survey, where he concentrated on Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire.
Susie White - Pioneering work: engaging finder groups, local museums and communities in reporting and recording of finds.
Susie White is a Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme covering North East Wales, based at Wrexham Museum. Susie works with finder groups, local museums and communities invested in archaeology and heritage, establishing how and_ where
archaeological material, found outside the research context, can be reported and recorded. Susie has worked as site registrar and senior field officer on excavations in England, the Isle of Man, Egypt and Oman. She specialises in studies of the clay tobacco
pipe and curates the National Pipe Archive.​
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Graeme White and Sharon Varey. Prof. Whiteand Dr Varey are the Editor and Associate Editor of Cheshire History
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For more information please visit: www.cheshirehistory.org.uk