Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society
Founded 1855
Lecture Programme
Lectures are normally held at 7.30pm. on Thursday evenings at New Walk Museum – please use main entrance from New Walk
The AGM is on 22nd November 2017 at the Guildhall.
Every year the W A North Memorial lecture is held in March and covers a topic related to the Roman Republic or Empire. The recently inaugurated John Scarborough Lecture is also held annually, and covers an aspect of the High Medieval in the East Midlands.
Lectures to members of the Society form an important part of the annual programme of activities. Between September and April lectures are held approximately every two or three weeks and consist of a mixture of history and archaeology topics usually on subjects which have local significance. However, on occasions subjects of national and international importance feature in the programme.
Programme for the 2017-18 season.
All lectures will be held at New Walk Museum at 7.30pm apart from the AGM on 22nd November
| Date | Subject | Lecturer |
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| Thursday 28 September 2017 |
Scarborough High Middle Ages Lecture Pots, Pins and Other Possessions: Things That People Owned in the High Middle Ages |
Prof. David Hinton
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| Tuesday 24 October 2017 |
Equity & Co.: Leicester’s Pioneering 20th Century Worker Co-operatives |
Prof. Peter Ackers Loughborough University |
| Wednesday 22 November 2017 |
The 162nd Annual General Meeting at The Guildhall, Guildhall Lane, Leicester, LE1 5FQ
To register your interest in attending the AGM please sign up here. Registration is not mandatory, but it allows us to better cater for our members if we know the number of attendees. |
Dr. Richard Thomas School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester. |
| Thursday 7 December 2017 |
Captain Pouch and the East Midlands Enclosure Riots of 1607 | Len Holden Market Harborough Historical Society |
| Thursday 11 January 2018 |
The Viking Great Army and the Making of England | Prof. Dawn Hadley University of Sheffield |
| Thursday 8 February 2018 |
The Rise and Fall of Cult Worship in the Gwash Valley of Rutland |
Jim Brown Museum of London Archaeology |
| Thursday 22 February 2018 |
Members’ Evening If you would like to present the results of your |
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| Thursday 8 March 2018 |
W. Alan North Memorial Lecture Roman London’s First Voices: the Bloomberg Tablets and their Archaeological Context
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Roger Tomlin, Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford & John Pearce, Department of Classics, Kings College, London |
| Thursday 12 April 2018 |
Stibbe’s Secrets Revealed: Unearthing Roman mosaics, houses and streets in Leicester |
Gavin Speed University of Leicester Archaeological Services |
| Thursday 26 April 2018 |
How to Read a Church: the View from the Middle Ages |
Dr. Miriam Gill University of Leicester |
| Thursday 24 May 2018 |
‘Let Steeple Bells be Swungen’: the History and Archaeology of Bells and Bell-founding |
Chris Pickford John Taylor Bellfoundry Museum and Archive, Loughborough
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