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Event Series Evening Lectures

Iron Road; writing the history of the railway from 1750 to 1850

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

As mine handling systems, railways have been around since the Middle Ages but were transformed between 1750 and 1850 by adopting iron components and mechanical operation, superseding roads and canals as the transport systems for the Industrial age. David Gwyn discusses their evolution and how to share the history of the ‘iron road’.

Event Series Evening Lectures

Brian Hope-Taylor (1923-2001) and Northumbria: a centenary re-assessment of excavations and interpretations at Yeavering and Doon Hill, Dunbar

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

After Brian Hope-Taylor back in 1963 presented his findings at excavations of the Anglian palace site at Yeavering this will now be critically reviewed to the evidence he recovered from, and the interpretations he advanced for both Yeavering and Doon Hill, Dunbar.

Event Series Evening Lectures

Vesuvius CE79: How Archaeology, Art and Fiction transformed a natural disaster into a human tragedy

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

Though Vesuvius and the Cities, Herculaneum, Stabia and above all Pompeii buried in the eruption of 79CE seem inseparable, they were first brought together by the archaeology, arts, fiction and politics of the Romantic era. Together they have irrevocably shaped our view of the volcano and its victims.