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 November | Archaeological Investigation in Historic Villages: new approaches and recent results, by Carenza Lewis, FSA |
| 20 November | The VCH England's Past for Everyone Project on Parham House, by Jayne Kirk |
| 27 November | Ballot |
| 4 December | Cherchez la femme: the Abbé Breuil and Mary Boyle (and the White Lady of the Brandberg), by Alan Saville, FSA |
| 11 December | After 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) |
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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) |