Calendar of weekly meetings

Programme of meetings October to December 2008

Unless otherwise stated, the chair will be taken at 5pm precisely; tea will be served from 4:15pm. Non Fellows are welcome to attend ordinary meetings (excluding ballots) as a guest of a Fellow. If you would like to attend a meeting but do not know any Fellows, please contact the Society for help (tel: 020 7479 7080).

13 NovemberArchaeological Investigation in Historic Villages: new approaches and recent results, by Carenza Lewis, FSA
20 NovemberThe VCH England's Past for Everyone Project on Parham House,  by Jayne Kirk
27 NovemberBallot
4 December

Cherchez la femme: the Abbé Breuil and Mary Boyle (and the White Lady of the Brandberg), by Alan Saville, FSA

11 DecemberAfter Kelmscott: the arts and crafts movement in the Cotswolds, by Alan Crawford
18 December Miscellany of papers and mulled wine reception (booking required for reception)

15 January  2009

Two Decades of Field Research at the Hominin Sites in Murcia, Spain, of Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar and Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, by Michael Walker, FSA
22 January

Timely and Timeless: the first century of the Royal Commissions, by Diana Murray, FSA, and Peter Wakelin, FSA

29 January
From Barrow to Bunker: integrating the historic environment with defence needs, by Phil Abramson, FSA
5 February
Ballot
6 February Wroxeter 150: past, present and future, a seminar organized by Roger White, FSA (booking required;)
12 February Italian Renaissance Ceramics: culture and collecting, by Dora Thornton, FSA, and Timothy Wilson, FSA
19 February Kangaroos and Violets: archaeological research on Great War landscapes in Belgium and Britain, by Richard Osgood, FSA, and Martin Brown, FSA
26 February Out from the Shadow of Dartmoor: twenty-five years of air survey and post-reconnaissance in lowland Devon, by Frances Griffith, FSA
5 March
Ballot
12 March Hill Hall: a singular house devised by a Tudor intellectual, by Paul Drury, FSA, and Richard Simpson
19 March Medievalism and the Grand Tour, by Rosemary Sweet, FSA
25 March Did Hadrian Design Hadrian's Wall?, by David Breeze, FSA; joint meeting with the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, to be held at 6pm at The Mining Institute, Neville Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1SE, followed by a reception in the Library of the Mining Institute
2 April
Ballot
23 April Council Elections and Anniversary Meeting
30 April John Gower and London, by John Hines, FSA
14 May
Bringing the Past Alive: treasures of the Fellows’ Library, Dulwich College, by Robert Weaver, FSA
21 May Remembering Charlemagne’s Pope: Alcuin’s epitaph for Hadrian I in Old St Peter’s, by Joanna Story, FSA
2 June
The Birth of Prehistory: commemorating John Evans’s Somme gravels lecture given to the Society on 2 June 1858, a colloquium organized by Clive Gamble, FSA, and Christopher Catling, FSA (booking required; separate details will be circulated)
4 June Ballot
11 June The Sir Percival David Collection in the Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for Chinese Ceramics, by Jessica Harrison-Hall
18 June The Stonehenge Riverside Project, by Michael Parker Pearson, FSA
25 June Summer soirée (booking required)
2 July Ballot
11 July
Kelmscott Fellows’ Day (booking required)