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Event Series Evening Lectures

Architectural History after Summerson

Sir John Summerson’s famous book Architecture in Britain 1530-1830, first published in 1953, remained the prime textbook well into the 21st century. Steven Brindle, author of a major new survey, Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830, discusses his predecessor’s great book, alternative ways of considering the subject, and the thinking which underlies his new and very different study.

Event Series Evening Lectures

The Forres Monument: new interpretations of ‘Sueno’s Stone’

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

The monumental cross slab at Forres, Moray, at 6.5m high, displays the most graphic visual record of a Viking military onslaught in Britain. Recent carbon dating places its erection in the later ninth century, and new drawings indicate Viking funeral practice. The Bible, old Welsh and Irish literature provide a narrative to the heroic and grisly feats depicted.

Event Series Evening Lectures

Investigating Historic Building Myths

Recent claims of Caesar’s landing on Thanet are best countered by Caesar’s Commentaries. These illustrate that the Delfs, an earthwork re-utilised in medieval times as an aqueduct for Sandwich is his described sea defence. A lost inlet behind Calais may be the long-sought Portus Itius (?Guines rather than Boulogne).