Lecture Programme

Lectures are held in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London at 5 p.m.

If the speaker permits their lecture to be live streamed/recorded, it will be available on the Institute's YouTube channel. See our Recorded lectures page for archived lecture videos.

 


Life, death and worship at HM Tower of London

The Tower of London is one of the most important and sensitive historic sites in the world.

Alfred Hawkins
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE

Archaeology in a nature and climate crisis

We are all aware that we are in the midst of a global nature and climate crisis, and discussions of the

Dr Hannah Fluck
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE

The Justinianic Plague in England: archaeological contexts and consequences

The ‘First Pandemic’, an outbreak of bubonic plague which struck Constantinople in the late spring of AD 542, was relatively well recorded by some contemporary writers.

Professor John Hines
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE

Iron Age and Roman Silchester: 50 years of research in perspective

Once thought to be a worked-out site following the Society of Antiquaries’ excavations, 1890 – 1909, excavations at Silchester (Calleva Atrebatu

Professor Michael Fulford
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE

Life (and death) on the edge? Regionality, connectivity and networks in fifth- and sixth-century Cambridgeshire

For archaeologists working on the wealth of material culture that emerges from early medieval (5th- and 6th-century) cemeteries of southern and

Dr Katie Haworth
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE

Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting will begin at 16.45 followed by the President's lecture at 17.00. Tea will be served from 16.15.

Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE

Stone heads in the Roman military zone and what they tell us about people

The conundrum of how one can tell the date of a carved stone head is one I had to wrestle with when preparing the Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani

Lindsay Allason-Jones
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE