Weekly meeting report Fellows and guests at this week’s meeting heard Margaret Bennett reconstruct the early modern landscape of north Nottinghamshire through maps, pictorial engravings, foresters’ account books, letters and […]
Apologies As Salon reaches its half century, we start with two apologies: first to Ortrun Peyn for misspelling her name in last week’s edition, and secondly to National Archives, the […]
Weekly meeting report Fellows heard two very practical papers at this week’s meeting, when Dr Julian Richards, FSA, gave a live demonstration (a first for the Society) of the rich […]
Back issues of Salon Server problems have interrupted the distribution of the last two editions of Salon. When this happens there is, unfortunately, no way of knowing who has and […]
Weekly meeting report Museums in Chester, Liverpool, Birkenhead, London and Warrington have rich collections of material from Meols, on the Wirral Peninsula, collected by antiquaries in the nineteenth century as […]
Weekly meeting report Reflecting on some thirty years of work at the leading edge of urban archaeology, Dr Peter Addyman, FSA, founder of the York Archaeological Trust, told Fellows at […]
Weekly meeting report One of the far-reaching consequences of the Reformation was the rejection of liturgical textiles, whose role in the liturgy and in the decoration of English churches was […]
Weekly meeting report One of the challenges facing landscape historians is to explain the divergence in medieval settlement type between the nucleated villages of the so-called ‘central belt’ of England, […]
Weekly meeting report This weeks meeting took the form of a ballot, at which Dr Derek Renn, FSA, outlined the history of the mid-nineteenth-century post box at the entrance to […]
Weekly meeting report Butrint is a microcosm of Mediterranean archaeology, Professor Richard Hodges told Fellows at this weeks Thursday meeting, as he outlined the evidence for urban continuity from the […]
