Future Programme of Lectures and Events
Lectures & Events for Spring 2022 | ||||
14 January, 2022 NOTE CHANGE OF TITLE |
Birsay, Orkney, centre of the Viking Earldom and Bishopric of Orkney, and its antecedents. Exploring over two centuries of archaeological investigations |
Dr Chris Morris, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology , University of Glasgow | ||
11 February, 2022 | A diachronic focus on Alta*, the changes through five thousand years and what they might mean *(Alta - World Heritage Rock Art site in North Norway) |
Prof Knut Helskog, UiT The Arctic University of Norway | ||
11 March, 2022 | A Bronze Age funerary landscape and Anglo Saxon settlement and cemetery at Overstone Leys | Simon Markus, Museum of London Archaeology | ||
8 April, 2022 | The Palaces of Richmond and Kew | Susan Rhodes | ||
13 May, 2022 (followed by AGM) |
National Trusts sites in London | Nathalie Cohen, NT | ||
Saturday 21 May, 2022 TIME CHANGED FROM 11 am TO 1 pm |
Guided tour of excavations of the Magnetic Observatory, and then walk round other Greenwich sites Members are to arrange their own transport and meet at the Greenwich Grandstand (near the observatory) at 13:00 (1pm) . It was decided that this would give greater flexibility for traveling and members having refreshments (something for lunch) beforehand. After Andrew Mayfield has shown us the Magnetic Observatory excavations we will have a gentle walk, mainly down-hill, taking in the Roman remains, Queen Elizabeth’s Oak, the Old Reservoir, the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery and the Conduit House, on the way to St. Mary’s Gate. Members are free to join this walk or not. Below are links to maps and details of the sites. You may wish to print these out for yourself or have it on phone or tablet: - Greenwich Park Map Details of Greenwich Park Sites Further details are available:- Friends Website |
Andrew Mayfield, Archaeologist Royal Parks | ||
Lectures & Events for Autumn 2022 | ||||
9 September, 2022 |
Fulham Palace, the significance of the Bishops and the development of the Palace as a residence from 1150 onwards | Alexis Haslam – community archaeologist Fulham Palace | ||
14 October, 2022 |
Who are you calling Neanderthal? Recent research at Shanidar cave, Iraqi Kurdistan | Dr Tim Reynolds, Birkbeck | ||
11 November, 2022 |
Marble Hill {title to be confirmed} | Thomas Cromwell, Historic England | ||
9 December, 2022 |
Results from excavations of a Middle Anglo-Saxon malting complex at Sedgeford | Dr Eleanor Blakelock, SHARP director of excavations | ||
Lectures & Events for Spring 2023 | ||||
13 January, 2023 |
Archaeology in the Royal Parks. | Andrew Mayfield, Community Archaeologist, Royal Parks | ||
10 February, 2023 |
Life in Wales in the Time of Asser and King Alfred (Asser, who was a monk at St Davids, was the biographer of King Alfred and attended his court in the 890s) |
Prof Nancy Edwards, Bangor | ||
10 March, 2023 |
Shakespearean playhouses | Heather Knight, Museum of London Archaeology ('MOLA') | ||
21 April, 2023 |
Surviving in Lower Palaeolithic Europe | Prof Rob Hosfield Reading | ||
12 May, 2023 |
Syon Abbey – a summary | Bob Cowie, MOLA | ||
10 June, 2023 |
? Field trip | TBC |