This display celebrates the lives and legacies of four remarkable female scholars: Gertrude Bell, Beatrice de Cardi, Joan Evans, and Margaret Stokes.
A tour of Burlington House for Affiliate Members
Visit and explore the Society on our open Fridays.
This June, the Revels Office, an international network of early career academics, will hold its first conference with the Society of Antiquaries of London. The conference showcases early career scholars working on the intersections between text, materiality, and performance, both in and beyond the commercial theatres in Great Britain and Ireland in the long early modern period (1500-1800).
Theatre historian and Shakespeare scholar Laurie Johnson will explain how the spatial logic of early playing spaces flipped during the uneven evolution of the Elizabethan playhouses. From Mankind (c. 1470) to Macbeth (1606), playwrights reversed the way their play texts referred to going in or going out. The shifting shapes of Tudor era playing spaces explain this reversal.
The Society looks forward to welcoming Fellows, Affiliates and guests to our annual summer miscellany, with a Pimms reception afterwards.
The English seaside resort led the development of a worldwide leisure revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries– this lecture argues that this should be marked by UNESCO and celebrated.
This interdisciplinary conference takes the iconic sixteenth century ballad Greensleeves as a focal point through which to explore the interconnections of texts, textiles and material culture in early modern England. Speakers will be looking at the representations of costume in the ballad: petticoats, silk, stockings, and will also be thinking about the song as poetic text in relation to classical lyric and the genre of erotic complaint.
Join us for our exciting exhibition, Magna Carta 1225 – 2025: 800th Anniversary Exhibition Opening Hours: Wednesdays to Fridays, 11 am – 4 pm (last entry 3.30pm) Free entry, no […]
This lecture will survey the history of early modern embroidered tabletop boxes, focusing on the variety of extant boxes, their compositions, and how they served as instruments of ownership, privacy, and agency for their makers and owners.
