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William Smith Travel Grants

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Travel grants of up to £350 are available for two undergraduate students to present at the 2nd William Smith Meeting of 2015 on 5 November.

Apply by 28 August

William Smith Fact Sheet

William Smith Factsheet

Find out more about William Smith and his 1815 map in our Fact Sheet

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William Smith Folded Maps

The Library is now selling folded copies of William Smith's 1815 map of England and Wales

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William Smith's County Maps

William Smith Online

William Smith Cross-Section

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History's collection of William Smith's maps, papers & diaries, digitised & available online.

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Joint Photo Competition 2015

photo competition

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William Smith Bicentenary

William Smith (23 March 1769 - 28 August 1839)

In 1815 William Smith published the first edition of his Geological Map of England and Wales.

Smith’s map made a seminal contribution to the understanding of the ground beneath our feet and by showing the location of coal, iron ore, clays and other raw materials quite literally fuelled the industrial revolution. By using fossils Smith was able to establish a relative chronology which allowed him to identify strata of the same age and to show where they occur at the surface.

In his centenary history of the Geological Society, Horace B Woodward, (1908) describes the map as “a work of genius planned and executed single handed” and it would be remiss if the bicentenary of its publication passed unnoticed.

A number of organisations are joining together to plan a year-long programme of events celebrating this milestone.

Events

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Sedgwick Museum: William Smith Exhibition and Family Trail

03 August - 17 September 2015

Venue: Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge

  • Social Event
  • Workshop

Yorkshire Fossil Festival

18 - 20 September 2015

Venue: Rotunda Museum, Scarborough

  • Workshop
  • Social Event

Rotunda Museum: Rock, Rascals and Resolution

26 - 27 September 2015

Venue: Rotunda Museum, Scarborough

  • Social Event

Yorkshire Philosophical Society: Public Presentation of Walk-on Geological Map

29 September 2015

Venue: Museum Gardens and Yorkshire Museum, York, YO1 7DR

  • Evening Meeting

Yorkshire Philosophical Society: Back to the Future of William Smith's Map - Meeting Modern Needs for Geological Knowledge

29 September 2015

Venue: Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum

  • Evening Meeting
  • Lecture

The Geologists' Association Dorset Group & Wessex Cephalopod Group: William Smith Meeting

30 September - 03 October 2015

Venue: Sherborne Castle

  • Field Trip
  • Lecture
  • Evening Meeting

William Smith Bicentenary 2015: Visualising Landscapes & Geology, Past, Present & Future

07 - 28 October 2015

Venue: Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol

  • Lecture
  • Social Event

Late Night Poetry at the Museum

08 October 2015

Venue: National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff

  • Evening Meeting
  • Social Event

William Smith goes to school!

12 - 16 October 2015

Venue: 10 schools across the North East of England - More information available soon

  • Workshop

Superposition and Correlation: William Smith's principles applied to 21st century Yorkshire

31 October - 01 November 2015

Venue: University Campus, Scarborough

  • Evening Meeting
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Organisations

The following organisations have come together to celebrate the life and work of William Smith.

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The Geological Society
Geologists' AssociationSomersetshire Coal Canal
National Museum WalesOxford Museum of Natural History
Natural History Museum
University of Bristol
British Geological Survey
Yorkshire Museums Trust
Bath Geological SocietyYorkshire Philosophical Society
Lyme Regis Fossil Festival

'Strata' Edited Collection

The editors of the Strata Conference 2015 invite proposals for essays on the theme of 'strata' across English literature in the period 1860-1930.

Essays which marry the two threads of physical (geological / archaeological) and psychological strata are of particular interest.

Deadline: 30 September

Further details

Strata-Smith.com

Portrait of William Smith

A bicentennial celebration of the first geological map of England and Wales in 1815, Strata-smith.com is the largest online collection of Smith maps.

A free education resource, it allows users to view the maps in 3D, compare editions and overlay with modern geological maps.

Interactive Maps
William Smith Map Project

A joint project between the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and Yorkshire Museum Trust to design and install a walk-on representation of the Yorkshire part of William Smith’s 1815 Geological Map.

See the Plans
Visit the William Smith Map

William Smith's 1815 map is on display at Burlington House

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