New on this site
- The text of the President's 2008 address to the Society on the News & Events page
- Details of the 'Women in Heritage' day on 4 April 2008, plus the Women in Heritage page
- News of the 'Antiquaries in Europe' colloquium on 16 May and the 'Westminster Abbey Chapter House' research symposium on 4 and 5 July
- Tickets for our Tercentenary Festival lectures
- Details of our Tercentenary monograph, Visions of Antiquity (£45 with Fellow's discount)
- Pictures of rooms for hire in our splendidly refurbished Burlington House apartments
Tercentenary Festival
Public Lectures in the UK & Ireland
Book here for the last public meeting in our Tercentenary Festival series. The final debate - on 'The Future of the Past' - will take place in the BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London on 26 June 2008 starting at 6.30 pm, with Robert Key, FSA, MP for Salisbury, in the chair and Professor Richard Bradley, Professor David Cannadine and Carenza Lewis on the panel.
Archbishop Ussher
and the age of the earth
Archbishop Ussher's calculation that the Earth was created on Sunday 23 October 4004 BC began a tradition of inquiry into geochronology at Trinity College Dublin that led to the radiometric dating techniques that have now established the Earth's age at 4567 million years. At this public lecture, at the Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, on 15 June from 5.30pm, Graham Parry, FSA (University of York) and Patrick Wyse Jackson (Trinity College, Dublin) will examine the man and the great work he left behind. Free tickets from <admin @ sal.org.uk>.
SALON
News from the Heritage World
Read Salon (the Society of Antiquaries of London's Online Newsletter) for
the latest heritage news, including the draft Heritage Bill, policy on historic battlefields in Scotland, the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database, the Black Cultural Archives, the Purton Hulks, skills training and education for the historic environment, crystal skulls, prehistoric whaling and why giving money to cultural causes is good for your health and happiness.