Forthcoming events:
On Friday 24th October, 2025 the ALG is holding a one-day meeting at Southend Museum to examine leather finds from the 17th century wreck of the warship the London. A presentation on the finds will also be available to remote participants via Zoom (full details here)
A two-day course: An Introduction to Archaeological Leather and its Conservation with tutors Angela Middleton (Historic England) and Arianne Panton (Leather Conservation Centre) will take place at Fort Cumberland, Portsmouth, in November 2025 (full details here)
Prague, 2026
From Thursday 19th to Friday 20th March, 2026 members of the ALG will be visiting two collections of medieval leather from archaeological excavations in Prague, Czech Republic. A day of visits to museum collections will be followed by a day of talks in the library of the Archaeological Department of the Czech Academy of Science. Registration will be open soon for this event, together with a Call for Papers. The programme for the meeting is outlined here:
27/09/2025
The latest issue of the ALG Newsletter, for September 2025, is now available in the Members’ section of the website and has been circulated to members.
Index to the ALG Newsletters
1/10/2023
Thanks to the work of Jana Obrocníková there is now an index to the collected newsletters, going back to the first issue in 1986. It is in the form of a searchable spreadsheet which ALG members and non-members alike can access here. Just enter the name of an author, place, type of leather find or conservation treatment etc. in the search box and all corresponding entries will be listed by issue and page number.
Only members, however, have access to copies of all previous newsletters (via the Members’ Section of this website). We hope that once non-members realise the wealth of material they contain, it will persuade them of the value of joining!