Getting Involved: Community Archaeology at National Museums Liverpool
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2017-01-16

The first community archaeology project run by National Museums Liverpool (NML) was trial trenching on the site of 19th century housing at Stanley Bank, St. Helens. This developed into a successful HLF funded project investigating the industrial archaeology of the upper reaches of the Sankey Canal and generated links between NML, St. Helens Council and a diverse range of local groups. Since then NML archaeologists have collaborated on several community led projects and this talk will present a personal overview attempting to examine
what worked well, what sometimes didn’t work quite so well, and will look at some future possibilities.