Events

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE Acquiring skills, travelling to fight: mobility in late Iron Age Dorset by Dr Rebecca Redfern The individual life histories of seven late Iron Age people from Dorset were reconstructed using bioarchaeological, funerary and isotope evidence. The communities who lived in this region of southwest Britain during the 1st century […]

LUNCHTIME LECTURE The Concealment of Sacred Objects during The English Reformation: evidence of piety or protest by Bruce Watson FSA One aspect of the English Reformation (1533-53) was a dramatic change of doctrine from Roman Catholic to the Protestant, which involved an attack on 'traditional religion', statues were forbidden, the celebration of Mass was banned […]

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE The Greek City State on a small scale: Hyettos in Boeotia and its territory from 6000 BC to 1900 AD by Professor John Bintliff FSA Since 1978 the Boeotia Project, directed by John Bintliff and Anthony Snodgrass, has been conducting landscape history research in the Central Greek province of Boeotia, […]

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE Cities, towns and villages: living in the diverse environments of the Indus Civilisation by Dr Cameron Petrie South Asia's Indus Civilisation continues to captivate and confound in equal measure. It was contemporaneous with Old Kingdom Egypt and the later phases of the Early Dynastic period, the Akkadian Empire and […]

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE A life in Ruins – A Stonemason’s study of southern Britain’s ancient monuments, churches and bridges by Andrew Ziminski FSA Andrew Ziminski been working as a Heritage Stonemason on churches, listed bridges and archaeological sites throughout Southern England and the Westcountry for the past thirty years. He has worked on […]

LUNCHTIME LECTURE KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes The Neanderthals occupy a singularly seminal place within human origins. They were the first hominin beyond ourselves to be discovered, are the closest to us in evolutionary terms and have by far the richest array of evidence with which to understand their […]

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE William Bowyer's Heroica Eulogia of 1567. An Illuminated History of the Earls of Leicester from the Tower Records by Professor Norman Jones FSA In 1567 William Bowyer, Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London, oversaw the rapid production of a gorgeous, illuminated manuscript arguing that Robert Dudley, 4th […]

INTRODUCTORY TOUR FOR FELLOWS Join us for an introductory tour of Burlington House to learn more about the Society and its resources. Whether you're a new Fellow or just haven't been to Burlington House, this is a great opportunity to learn more about your Society, your Fellowship benefits, and ways to become more involved. Tea/coffee […]