Events

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

PUBLIC LECTURE The Reverend Joseph Hunter, FSA., and the Legend of Robin Hood Lecture by Dr David Crook FSA The legend of Robin Hood, a northern medieval English outlaw living at an uncertain date, whose actual existence is disputed by many and who is supposed among other things to have robbed from the rich to […]

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE Anglo-Saxon hydraulic engineering in the Fens by Prof. Michael Chisholm FSA For the Fens south of the Wash, it has long been held that only the Romans or the Normans were capable of major hydraulic engineering.  Much has been done in recent decades challenging this view but the full significance […]