Recent Lectures & Events

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Date		Topic		Speaker
Spring 2023
May 2023		The May lecture on 'Syon Abby revisited' had to be posponed at short notice until May 2024
April 2023		The Earliest Europeans, a year in the life of		Professor Rob Hosfield, Reading University
March 2023		Past, Present and Future of Theatre Archaeology in London		Heather Knight, MoLA
February, 2023		Life in Wales in the time of Asser and King Alfred		Nancy Edwards, Emeritus Professor, Bangor
January, 2023		Archaeology of Greenwich Park		Andrew Mayfield
Autumn 2022
December, 2022		A Middle Anglo-Saxon Malting Complex		Eleanor Blackelock
November, 2022		Marble Hill		Thomas Cromwell, Historic England
October, 2022		A career in ruins		Robin Densem
September, 2022		Fulham Palace: Significance of the Bishops and the development of the Palace as a residence from 1150 onwards		Dr Alexis Haslam
Spring 2022
April 2022		Palaces of Kew		Susan Rhodes
March 2022		Reconstructing early prehistoric human lifeways through Ancient DNA		Prof Knut Helskog, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
February 2022		A diachronic focus on Alta: the changes through five thousand years and what they might mean		Prof Knut Helskog, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Autumn 2021
September		Before the Bishops Palace. From the Mesolithic to 1080		Alexis Haslam – community archaeologist Fulham Palace
October 2021		The Cultural Recovery Fund. Its impact on heritage and people at Hampton Court Palace.		Dr Jane Sidell
November 2021		The fisher-farmer way of life, a medieval adaptation to marginality or a robust tradition from the Stone age.		Prof Reidar Bertelsen, University of Tromsø (North Norway)
December 2021		Barn Elms – Going to town on an Iron Age Oppidum?		Michael Curnow, MOLA
Spring 2020
February 2020		Founding Current Archaeology		Andrew Selkirk
Spring 2019
May 2019		Herding Ancient Domesticates: from Bones to Genomes		Victoria Mullin, Natural History Museum
April 2019		Non-Ferrous Metal working in Roman Britain		Dr Justine Bailey
Autumn 2018
October 2018		Making Connections: Stonehenge in its Prehistoric World		Neil Wilkin, British Museum
September 2018		From Roundhouses to Workhouses: recent work in London		Dr Helen Chittock, AOC Archaeology
Spring 2018
March 2018		Neanderthals of La Manche: new research in the Channel		Matthew Pope, UCL & NHM
February 2018		The Syon Abbey herbal		John Adams and Stuart Forbes
Autumn 2017
December 2017		Finding the Mesolithic: Biomolecular Approaches to Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology		Dr. Sophy Charlton, Natural History Museum
November 2017		Prittlewell prince (Anglo-Saxon princely burial)		Professor Christopher Scull, UCL
October 2017		The Impact of Industrialisation on London Health		Jelena Bekvalac MoLA
September 2017		The Genetic History of Prehistoric Britain		Dr Tom Booth, Natural History Museum
Spring 2017
March 2017		The Archaeology of the Silk Roads		Dr Tim Williams, UCL
February 2017		A Romano-British Roadside Settlement at Flexford, Surrey		David Calow, Surrey Archaeological Society
Autumn 2016
November 2016		Recent Projects on London's scheduled monuments		Jane Sidell, Historic England Inspector of Monuments for Greater London
October 2016		One Thames or Two		John Cotton, former Curator of the Prehistoric Gallery at the Museum of London
September 2016		Where’s My Mummy?: Mummification in Bronze Age Britain		Dr Tom Booth
Spring 2016
May 2016		The Maya Collapse: myth or reality?		Professor Elizabeth Graham, UCL
March 2016		Rendlesham rediscovered: an East Anglian Royal Settlement of the time of Sutton Hoo		Professor Christopher Scull
February 2016		Lawrence of Arabia’s War		Neil Faulkner
January 2016		At the January social event there was the usual good food, wine and conversation, and in addition there was a talk:- 'The restoration project of the temperate house at Kew Gardens'		Susan Rhodes
Autumn 2015
December 2015		Late Roman Fortifications		James Bromwich
November 2015		Hunting the baby killers; the first blitz 1915-16		Andy Brockman
September 2015		Prehistoric and historic landscapes at Sipson Farm excavations 2010-14		Bob Cowie, MoLA
Spring 2015
May 2015		Metalworking in viking Dublin		Dr Justin Bayley, English Heritage
April 2015		What did the Vikings ever do for us?		Rev Dr Simon Coupland
March 2015		Gods, Myths and Man in Roman London		Angela Wardle, Roman Specialist with MoLA
February 2015		Britain's Western Vikings		David Griffiths, Oxford University
January 2015 Social		Highwaymen of Hownslow Heath		Andrea Cameron, Librarian Hownslow
Autumn 2014
December 2014		The King’s Yard: Archaeology at Convoy’s Wharf		Duncan Hawkins, CgMs Consulting
November 2014		Recent Projects on London’s Scheduled Monuments		Jane Sidell, English Heritage Inspector of Ancient Monuments, London
October 2014		Bucklersbury to Bloomberg: Excavations on a site in the City of London		Jessica Bryan, MoLA
Spring 2014
May 2014		The Treasure Act, 1996		Ian Richardson, Dept of British and European Prehistory, BM
April 2014		Roman Brooches found in London and its Hinterland		Frank Pemberton
March 2014		The Tudor mint at the Tower of London		Justine bayley
February 2014		The Origin of Our Species		Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum
January Social 2014		Excavation at the King’s Observatory Site		Bob Cowie, MoLA
Autumn 2013
November 2013		Bishop Odo and the Bayeux Tapestry		Trevor Rowley, Oxford University
October 2013		Palaces, Pots and Parks: Archaeology and the National Trust,		Nathalie Cohen, National Trust
September 2013		2013 CT Analysis: the Future of “Inside Information” about the Past		Dr Sophie Beckett, Centre for Archaeological and Forensic Analysis, Cranfield University
Special History
		History of Thames at Richmond - John Alderton
Spring 2013
15 June 2013		Coach trip to Avebury and Kennet barrow
8 March 2013		Settlement under the sand: Viking Orkney		David Griffiths, Oxford University
8 Feb 2013		The Archaeology of the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar		Catherine Sinnott, Centre for Archaeological and Forensic Analysis, Cranfield University
8 Jan 2013		The Great Barn at Harmondsworth, the story so far		Justine Bayley, Hon. Secretary of the Harmondsworth Great Barn and ex. English Heritage
Autumn 2012
9 Nov 2012		Recent Projects on London’s Scheduled Monuments		Jane Sidell, Inspector of Ancient Monuments (London), English Heritage
12 Oct 2012		Woking Palace		David Savage, Surrey Archaeological Society
14 Sept 2012		Oh Rats, Its the Black Death		Barney Sloane, English Heritage
Summer 2012
9 June 2012		Summer Outing to Dover
Spring 2012
March 2012		Human Remains: New Methods and Ethical Issues		Bas Payne, Chief Scientist, English Heritage
Autumn 2011
December 2011		Changing perceptions of Vikings in England: new evidence from metal detector finds		Dr Jane Kershaw, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Summer 2011
30th July 2011		2011 Festival of Archaeology, Richmond Museum For the third successive year, several RAS members staged an event at the request of Richmond Museum as part of the annual Festival of Archaeology.		For three hours members of the public could come in and view a display of artefacts mainly found locally on the Thames foreshore with a chance also to look at various archaeological articles and leaflets, and have questions answered.
June 2011		Summer Outing to Down Farm		Martin Green, farmer, archaeologist and conservationist
Spring 2011
May 2011		St Mary Magdalene, Winchester		Dr Julie Wileman
April 2011		Ancient Dairying		Dr Bas Payne, Chief Scientist, English Heritage
March 2011		Conquering the North....		Nick Ashton, Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project
February 2011		Searching for Roman Surrey		Alan Hall & David Callow, Roman studies group, Surrey Archaeological Society
Autumn 2010
10 December 2010		Two Viking Sites in Orkney: Quoygrew & the Brough of Deerness		Dr James Gerrard, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
November 2010		Neanderthals in Sussex		Matthew Pope, Institute of Archaeology in London
October 2010		Early Roman Quarrying and Building Stone		Kevin Haywood, Univ. Of Reading & Pre-construct archaeology
September 2010		Clay pipes from London		Peter Hammond, archaeologist and specialist in clay pipes
Spring 2010
May 2010		Meet the Ancestors: some interesting Anglo Saxons from Sedgeford		Martin Hatton & Sophie Beckett, Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP)
April 2010		Placenames in the Landscape		Natalie Cohen, Thames Discovery Programme
March 2010	<	From London to Luxor: the work of an Egyptologist/Digger		Chris Naunton, Deputy Director, Egyptian Exploration Society
February 2010		The Archaeology of St Paul's Cathedral		Dr John Schofield, former Curator of Architecture, Museum of London
Autumn 2009
11 December 2009		Discoveries at Drapers Gardens, City of London		Dr James Gerrard, Pre-Construct Archaeology
Saturday 24 October 2009		Guided tour of London's Roman ampitheatre and Westgate		organiser: Shirley Sell
9 October 2009		Current Scientific Developments in Archaeology		Bas Payne, Chief Scientist, English Heritage
Summer 2009
Saturday 13 June 2009		RAS summer outing to an alms house and mill in Winchester, with a church on the way back		organisers: Yvonne Masson with Jennifer Hunt
Spring 2009
8 May 2009		London before London		Caroline Juby, Royal Holloway College and Museum of London
10 April 2009		History of the Bayeux Tapestry		by Dr Carola Hicks
13 March 2009		Gathering Time: towards a history of the early Neolithic of Southern Britain		by Alex Bayliss (English Heritage)
13 February 2009		Drapers Gardens: A Once in a Lifetime Roman Site in the City of London		by Neil Hawkins, Pre-Construct Archaeology
Autumn 2008
12 December 2008		Bermondsey Abbey; 10 years of excavation		by Alistair Douglas, Pre-Construct Archaeology Spring 2009
10 October 2008		Three Historic Houses in West London: Syon, Osterley and Chiswick		by Andrea Cameron
12 September 2008		Fulham Palace: resume of Archaeology & Research		by Keith Whitehouse
Spring 2008
9 May 2008		The Ancient Merv Project, Turkmenistan		by Dr Tim Williams of University College London
11 April 2008		Brave New World: Hellenism in the Eastern Mediterranean		by Dr David Price Williams
8 February 2008		The Zeppelin War; archaeology of the first blitz		by Dr Neil Faulkner, Director of the Great War Archaeology Group, University College London
Special Talk at Syon House
8 July 2007		Thomas Cromwell and the Destruction of Syon Abbey		Robert Hutchinson
Spring 2007
May 2007		The Archaeology of Buckingham Palace		Johnathan Foyle, Independent Historian and TV presenter
April 2007		Who are the British		David Miles, Chief Archaeologist, English Heritage
March 2007		The Colchester Roman Circus		Philip Crummy, Colchester Archaeological Trust
February 2007		A Silver Summer: the Hampton Court Calotype Experiment		Robert Hoare, Photo Historian, Hampton Court Palace
Autumn 2006
Dec 2006		The Anglo-Saxons: the Verdict of History		Paul Hill, Author and Historian
Nov 2006		Reconstructing the Past: Continuity and Change at Butser Ancient Farm		Steve Dyer of Butser Ancient Farm
Oct 2006		Hide and Seek: the Archaeology of Childhood		Julie Wileman, Independent Archaeologist
September 2006		Marine Archaeology		Jill Hooper, Marine archaeologist
Spring 2006
May 2006		Excavations at Azokh Cave, Nagorno Karabagh		Dr Nora Maloney, Institute of Archaeology
April 2006		The Roman City of London		Robin Densem, MoLAS
March 2006		The Petrie Museum and the Birth of Egyptian Archaeology		Jan Picton, Secretary, Friends of the Petrie Museum
February 2006		Archaeology and Sea Level Change on the River Thames		Jane Sidell. Environmental archaeologist
Autumn 2005
December 2005		The Road to Hastings		Paul Hill
November 2005		Kew Palace		Lee Prosser, Curator for Historic Palaces
October 2005		The Transformation of Stonehenge		John Maloney, English Heritage
September 2005		The Portable Antiquities Scheme		David Williams,Finds Liaison Officer, Surrey
Spring 2005
May 2005		The Springhead site, Excavations on the route of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link		Phil Andrews, Wessex Archaeology
April 2005		The Roman Port at Shadwell		Alistair Douglas, Pre Construct Archaeology
February 2005		The Treasures of the Iceni		Megan Denis, Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project
Autumn 2004
December 2004		The Royal Saxon Burial at Prittlewell, Essex		Ian Blair, Museum of London Archaeology Service
November 2004		The Romans in Romania - Apulium		Dr Ian Haynes, Birkbeck College, University of London
October 2004		The Age of Athelstan		Paul Hill, University of Surrey
September 2004		Time Team and Before, The Roman Site in Greenwich Park		Harvey Sheldon, Birkbeck College, University of London
Spring 2004
May		The Archaeology of Heathrow Terminal 5		Ken Welsh
April		Charter Quay, Kingston		Phil Andrews, Wessex Archaeology
February		Ceramic Heritage of London: From the Middle Ages to the Victorians		Jacqui Pearce, MoLAS
Autumn 2003
12 December		Treasure: Finding our Past		Dr J.D. Hill, British Museum
3rd October		the Hampton Court of Cardinal Wolsey: the home of the Renaissance in England		Jonathon Foyle, Hampton Court Palace
12th September		The Romano-Celtic Precinct in Southwark		Jo Taylor, PreConstruct Archaeology
Spring 2003
14th March		London Before Londinium		Jon Cotton, Museum of London
14th February		Emperors,Kings and Popes		Dr Ray Laurence, University of Reading
Autumn 2002
December		The Story of Roman Pottery		Robin Symonds, MoLAS
8th November		The Origins of the Medieval Cloister		John McNeill, Lecturer and Tour Organiser
4th October		The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project		Professor Chris Stringer, NHM
13th September		We’ve come about the drains: Roman Baths and Drainage		Tony Rook,Independent Archaeologist