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This display celebrates the lives and legacies of four remarkable female scholars: Gertrude Bell, Beatrice de Cardi, Joan Evans, and Margaret Stokes.
Join us for the President’s Annual Address.
A look at rare survivals of Catholic printed books c.1570-1600, which provide telling insight into an English Catholic religious culture.
Introductory Tour for Fellows
Visit and explore the Society on our open Fridays.
A tour of Burlington House for Affiliate Members
Visit and explore the Society on our open Fridays.
This June, the Revels Office, an international network of early career academics, will hold its first conference with the Society of Antiquaries of London. The conference showcases early career scholars working on the intersections between text, materiality, and performance, both in and beyond the commercial theatres in Great Britain and Ireland in the long early modern period (1500-1800).
Theatre historian and Shakespeare scholar Laurie Johnson will explain how the spatial logic of early playing spaces flipped during the uneven evolution of the Elizabethan playhouses. From Mankind (c. 1470) to Macbeth (1606), playwrights reversed the way their play texts referred to going in or going out. The shifting shapes of Tudor era playing spaces explain this reversal.
The English seaside resort led the development of a worldwide leisure revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries– this lecture argues that this should be marked by UNESCO and celebrated.
