Events

The Royal Archaeological Institute holds a variety of events each year, including a monthly lecture programme from October to May and three Meetings.

  • From October to May, Lectures are given by distinguished participants in the Institute's areas of interest. Most lectures are recorded and made available on our website and YouTube channel.
  • Three Meetings (specialist site visits and tours) are organised each year. The Autumn, Spring and Summer Meetings take place in different parts of Britain and continental Europe.
  • Occasional Conferences are hosted in a new British location each year and focus on particular periods and regions of Britain or Ireland. These are often organised in conjunction with local archaeology societies.

Students wishing to attend any of these events may be eligible for a Cheney Bursary.

Upcoming events

Lecture
Image description: Senior Building Material Specialist Han Li laying out Roman plaster fragments from The Liberty development site in south London

The travelling painters of Londinium

The diversity of the styles of Roman London’s 1st century paintings suggests that there were multiple groups of painters throughout the city, many of them being from the continent.

Han Li, Museum of London Archaeology
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
Lecture
Aerial view of trenches at Yeavering in Northumberland

Ad Gefrin revisited: New findings and thoughts on a multi-period place of power

Yeavering in Northumberland is well-known for its appearance in the eighth-century Ecclesiastical History of the English People in which Bede describes a vi

Professor Sarah Semple, Durham University
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
Meeting
East End of Westminster Abbey

2026 Autumn Meeting

The Autumn Meeting will be held in the City of Westminster.

City of Westminster
Lecture
Detail of the carvings in Royston Cave

Royston Cave: A Medieval Mystery beneath our Feet

In August 1742, workmen were erecting a bench inside the market house that sat near the crossroads in the middle of the Hertfordshire town of Royston.

Matthew Champion, MJC Associates
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
Lecture
Completed peatland restoration project at Alderman’s Barrow, Holnicote Estate, Exmoor © South West Peatland Partnership

Archaeology and Nature Recovery at the National Trust

By taking a proactive approach to heritage assessment to support nature recovery in land-use change projects for nature and climate, archaeology can be identified as an environmental discipli

Cat Lodge, National Trust
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
Lecture
Objects from the Hoxne treasure on display at the British Museum

Britain’s Last Roman Hoards: New Research on the Late Roman to Early Medieval Transition in Britain

Britain’s Last Roman Hoards: Wealth, Power and Culture in the Fifth Century is a recent collaborative AHRC (UK government-funded) project focusing on economy, society an

Professor Ellen Swift, University of Kent
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
Lecture
Papercuts found beneath the floorboards at Sutton House

Findings Under the Floorboards: Sutton House's 17th-Century Fragments

This talk establishes the identification of paper fragments found underneath the floorboards of Sutton House in Hackney, London, as important material survivals of a 17th-century schoolgirl craft,

Dr Isabella Rosner, Royal School of Needlework
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
Lecture
Experimental archaeology for prehistoric cheese making

The Talbot Green Lecture: Separating the curds and whey - investigating the role of processed milk products in the Neolithic diet

The Talbot Green Lecture will be held in York.

Professor Penny Bickle, University of York
Friargate Quaker Meeting House, Friargate, York, YO1 9RL
Lecture
The Bodiam 100 team in front of Bodiam Castle

AGM and Exploring the archaeology of an East Sussex Icon

The AGM will begin at 16.45 followed by our President, Nathalie Cohen's lecture at 17.00.

Nathalie Cohen, National Trust
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE