Meetings archive

Programme of meetings October 2011 to December 2011

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 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).

6 October	East of Lubeck: medieval monuments along the southern Baltic shores Jerome Bertram FSA
13 October	The Society's Portrait of Queen Mary Pamela Tudor-Craig FSA
20 October	Matthew Cotes Wyatt's colossal equestrian statue of Wellington (1846) and Turner's Hero of a Hundred Fights at the RA (1847) Jan Piggott FSA BALLOT
27 October	Prior's Hall, Widdington, Essex: an Anglo-Saxon secular building? Nicola Smith FSA
3 November	Big Landscapes, Big Questions: the archaeological landscapes of Heathrow, Middlesex and Stansted, Essex compared John SC Lewis FSA
10 November	Built upon a Temple: the influence of a legendary origin on Freemasonry Mark Dennis, The Library and Museum of Freemasonry BALLOT
17 November	'Between these...a great deal of my time is engaged':Henry Baker, the RSA and the Society of Antiquaries of London David Allan FSA BALLOT
24 November	Mapping Roman London: using GIS from site context to town plan Julian Hill, Museum of London Archaeology BALLOT
1 December	'Lifting the heavy stone of Classicism': regional vernacular portraiture in post-Reformation England to c.1620 Robert Tittler FSA BALLOT
8 December	Parish Churches and the post-Reformation landscape Andrew Spicer FSA BALLOT
15 December	Miscellany of papers and mulled wine reception Aspects of the Society's paintings collection, including talks by Bernard Nurse FSA and Maurice Howard FSA. Admission to the reception by ticket only

Programme of meetings October to December 2010

7 October	Recent excavations at the ‘Palazzo Imperiale’ at Portus, the port of Imperial Rome Simon Keay FSA
14 October	Archaeology and metal-detecting: perspectives from Roman Yorkshire Martin Millett FSA, to be held in the Huntingdon Room, King’s Manor, Exhibition Square, York
21 October	Finds and exhibits meeting: Museum of London staff will present recent finds
4 November	‘Edmund Tyrrell Artis FSA: a curious polymath Geoffrey Dannell FSA
11 November	Excavating the Lapita Cemetery at Teouma, Vanuatu, and the background to the current exhibition of 3,000 year-old Lapita pots at the Musée de Quai Branly, Paris Matthew Spriggs FSA
18 November	The Jewish catacombs of Roman Melite Mario Buhagiar FSA
25 November	Sir Hans Sloane: the accidental antiquary Jill Cook FSA
2 December	Monastery to mansion: the London Charterhouse in the sixteenth century Philip Temple
9 December	Miscellany of Papers and mulled wine reception Admission to reception by ticket only; booking details will be circulated separately

Programme of meetings October to December 2009

1 October	Ship in the Desert: the Namibian treasure wreck by Dr Bruno Werz of the Southern African Institute of Maritime Archaeology
8 October	The Thames Discovery Programme: charting a new course for community archaeology? by Gustav Milne, FSA; a joint lecture with the City of London Archaeological Trust
15 October	English Parish Churches: the next one thousand years by Loyd Grossman, FSA; a joint lecture to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Churches Conservation Trust
22 October	The Late Antique and Byzantine Ivories of the Liverpool Antiquary Joseph Mayer by Helen Rufus-Ward of the University of Sussex
5 November	The Cloister and the Hearth: understanding medieval palaces by Simon Thurley, FSA; a joint lecture with the All-Party Parliamentary Archaeology Group, to be held in the Macmillan Room, Portcullis House at 6pm for 6.30pm. The lecture is free, but tickets will be issued for security reasons. Details to follow.
12 November	Finds and Exhibits meeting: important recent discoveries made through the Portable Antiquities Scheme will be presented by Finds Liaison Officers
19 November	2,500 years on the Silk Roads of Central Asia: research and management at ancient Merv by Tim Williams, FSA
26 November	The Country Houses of Greater London: past and present by Caroline Knight, FSA
27 November	Silchester, the Society of Antiquaries and Urbanism in Britain: Iron Age to early medieval, a colloquium to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the excavation by the Society of Antiquaries of the Roman town of Silchester, being organized by Michael Fulford, FSA. Details to follow.
3 December	Silverware in the Ashmolean Museum: cataloguing the collection by Tim Schroder, FSA
10 December	‘Clothing for the soul divine’: burials at the tomb of St Ninian by Peter Yeoman, FSA
17 December	Miscellany of papers and mulled wine

Programme of meetings January to July 2009

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).

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)