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A Tale of Medieval Arms & Armour from the Society of Antiquaries Library

Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom

PUBLIC LECTURE Wee Willie & the King’s Silver Trousers: A Tale of Medieval Arms & Armour from the Society of Antiquaries Library Lecture by Dr Ralph Moffat The Society of […]

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Exploring the use of animal products in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Costume.

Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE Changing Skins: Exploring the use of animal products in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Costume. Lecture by Dr Peter Hommel, V. Busova (IIMK (RAS) and Grabar Conservation Centre), S. Brown (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) and  T. Emmerich (University of Exeter)  Paper will be delivered […]

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High Resolution Pollen Analysis and the End of Roman Wales

WELSH REGIONAL GROUP LECTURE  High Resolution Pollen Analysis and the End of Roman Wales: Preliminary Results of the Manifestations of Empire Project by Dr Andrew Seaman FSA & Dr Tudur Davies In this lecture we will present the preliminary results of the AHRC-funded Manifestations of Empire project. The extent of social and political change occurring […]

Chariots in the landscape of East Yorkshire

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE Chariots in the landscape of East Yorkshire – recent discoveries at Pocklington and region by Dr Peter Halkon FSA & Paula Ware Since 2014, excavations at Pocklington in East Yorkshire, not previously known for its archaeology, have produced spectacular discoveries, the most significant being two chariot burials. The Burnby Lane […]

Belief and Belonging: Daily life on the medieval Swahili coast

PUBLIC LECTURE Belief and Belonging: Daily life on the medieval Swahili coast by Dr Stephanie Wynne-Jones FSA Registration for this lecture is now closed but you can join us on YouTube here. This lecture will present the results of a large-scale excavation project on the southern Swahili coast. The site of Songo Mnara was one […]

Archbishop Warham’s palace at Otford

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE Registration for this event is now closed but you can join us on YouTube live here. Invironed aboute with Galeries and Towers': Archbishop Warham's palace at Otford by Paul Drury FSA (President of the Society of Antiquaries of London) William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury 1503-32, transformed his manor at Otford into […]

The Early Medieval Eye and Insular Art.

Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE The Early Medieval Eye and Insular Art. The Codex Amiatinus, the Book of Kells, and the scholarship of Jennifer O’Reilly Lecture by Dr Carol Farr FSA Registration is now closed but you can join us on YouTube here.  Recent archaeological discoveries have contributed much to our understanding of the visual […]

The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project and the Durrington Walls Pits Circle by Professor Vincent Gaffney FSA Booking is now closed for this lecture but you can join us on YouTube here. At a time when the landscape of Stonehenge is a matter of significant public debate, it is important that […]

Penywyrlod and Gwernvale in their early Neolithic context 

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE OUT OF LONDON IN CARDIFF* The first stones: Penywyrlod and Gwernvale in their early Neolithic context  by William Britnell FSA and Professor Alasdair Whittle FSA Penywyrlod and Gwernvale are two early Neolithic long cairns in inland south-east Wales, part of a distinctive distribution around the fringes of the hills of […]

IWD: Active men and Emblematizing women

International Women's Day Lecture We are delighted to have Dr Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson presenting a lecture on her work on women in the Viking Period for International Women's Day 2021. Dr Hedenstierna-Jonson is a faculty member of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University, Sweden and also a researcher and part of the Viking […]