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The Historical Metallurgy Society provides a forum for exchange of information and research in historical metallurgy. It aims to gain recognition for the subject from the community at large and to be consulted when issues of preservation and recording arise. A two day residential conference is held in the UK each Autumn with a programme of papers from invited speakers and reports of work by Society members built round visits to sites. The sites are as varied as the enigmatic wastes of Bronze Age Flag Fen or a small lonely group of granite boulders marking an ancient tin smelting site on the top of Dartmoor. Sometimes members may be fortunate enough to see a working edge-tool mill or a demonstration of crucible steel making.