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All of our lectures are live streamed and are open to anyone to join us online, Fellows and Non-Fellows.

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Event Series Lunchtime Lectures

A Maze without a Plan? Display in Sir John Soane’s Museum

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

John Soane famously said that the works in his collection were arranged “as studies for my own mind”, but he never explained what he meant by that phrase. This lecture attempts to illuminate Soane’s collection and his strategy for it through a display midway between a cabinet of curiosities and the post-Enlightenment museum.

Event Series Evening Lectures

A Landscape of Curiosities: The Priors Hall Roman Villa Estate

The lecture will discuss the award-winning excavations undertaken by Oxford Archaeology on a large Roman villa at Priors Hall, Corby, exploring some of the most significant archaeological remains encountered from Roman Britain in recent years. With components including manufacturing spaces, mausoleum and elements of the villa proper, the lecture will evaluate the evidence for the site’s human dynamics and social and economic networks in its regional landscape.

Event Series Evening Lectures

A date with the two Cerne Giants: results of the National Trusts excavation in 2020

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

Clinical scale targeted excavations by the National Trust aimed to date the Cerne Giant by OSL. The research provided an unexpected Saxon date, land-use history and ominous ‘disappearance’ of the Giant for six centuries, provide the platform for reconsideration and new discussion and debate … including some stunning discoveries.