Recorded lectures

109 events found

Cathcart Castle reconsidered

Brian Kerr will look at some of the key elements in the development of Cathcart Castle, a tower house on the south side of Glasgow, from its construction in 1450 through to its abandonment and partial demolition in c.1740.

Brian Kerr

Annual General Meeting and Royal Archaeological Institute Past: Women and the RAI

The AGM will begin at 16.45 followed by the President's lecture at 17.00 on 'Royal Archaeological Institute Past: Women and the RAI'.

Nathalie Cohen

Digging deeper: Initial results from the A428

Archaeological excavations conducted by MOLA ahead of The A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvement Scheme revealed evidence for Iron Age Pioneer Settlements in the Claylands of Bedfordshire and

Simon Markus

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 urgency of responses, for nature recovery, for looking after the natural w

Dr Hannah Fluck

In Search of Britain’s Oldest Pubs

Numerous claims are made to be Britain’s oldest pub from all corners of the isles.

Dr James Wright (Triskele Heritage)

A Mesolithic experience: Excavations at Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay

In January 2009, pigs snuffling in the bracken on east coast of the Isle of Islay, western Scotland, turned up some small pieces of flint on a small terrace known as Rubha Port an t-Seilich (

Professor Steven Mithen

The Maison Domat, Mirefleurs (France): stories of Ancient and Modern Celts, Romans, Bourbons, Stuarts and Hollywood

I will tell a number of intersecting stories which spin-off from a grant given to me in the 1970s by the Institute, to explore the origins of Iron Age oppida in the Auvergne (Aul

Professor John Collis

2024 Spring Meeting

The Spring Meeting (event) was held in Newark on Saturday, 11 May and was led by Dr Mark Gardiner and Mr Peter Ginn.

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Iron Age and Roman Silchester: Fifty 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 Atrebatum) since the 1970s have shown rema

Professor Michael Fulford

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