All lectures are at The Olney Centre and via Zoom, 10.00 am to 12.00 noon with a refreshment break mid-way.
Lectures on 1st Tuesday of each month will have a remote lecturer presented via zoom on the screen at The Olney Centre.
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5th September
“The gardens of Baddesley Clinton and Packwood House, Warwicks.”
Dr Stephen Wass, operating as Polyolbian Archaeology, works with the National Trust recording historic gardens and buildings. Remote lecturer.
19th September
“The Battle of Waterloo.”
Lt Col Roger Laing, retired army officer, MOD, cruise ship lecturer. Regular OAS speaker.
3rd October
“Past Lives: Telling Tales from Human Skeletal remains.”
Dr Katie Tucker, visiting fellow in Osteoarchaeology at University of Winchester, lives and works abroad with the Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut and Transylvania Bioarchaeology. Regular OAS speaker. Remote lecturer.
17th October
“The Weird and Wonderful Roman villa estate at Priors Hall, Corby.”
Patrick Lambert, Project manager for Oxford Archaeology East with a special interest in the Roman world.
7th November
“The Making of Gone with the Wind.”
Dr Colin Shindler, Author, broadcaster, Cambridge lecturer. Bafta award winning TV writer and producer. Remote lecturer.
21st November
“In Search of the Catuvellauni: Tribal Influence and Changing Landscape.”
Michael Curtis, Landscape and Coastal archaeologist, School of Archaeology and Ancient history, University of Leicester.
5th December
“Elizabethan Houses and the Transformation of Britain.“
Dr Jonathan Foyle has a career in conservation, research and curating, award winning BBC broadcaster, Visiting Professor in Conservation at the University of Lincoln. Remote lecturer.
19th December
“Medieval Pilgrimage”
Michael Brown, garden historian and horticulturalist, illustrates his talk with medieval music played on his own copies of medieval instruments.
Followed by:-
Christmas Lunch (optional and pre-booking required) details here.
This talk will be presented at the Carlton House Club and will not be available on Zoom.
2nd January
“Whose was the Inca Empire?”
Dr Nicholas James, Director of studies in Social Anthropology at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Remote lecturer.
16th January
“How to become King in Medieval England.”
Graham Evans, chair of Northamptonshire Battlefields Society.
6th February
“In Search of Britain’s Oldest Pubs.”
Dr James Wright, Field archaeologist, conservation stonemason, historic graffiti specialist. Remote lecturer.
20th February
“The Return to the Roman World of Priors Hall.”
Patrick Lambert, Project manager for Oxford Archaeology East with a special interest in the Roman world.
In a previous talk, we covered the award-winning excavations in 2019 of the funerary and industrial later phases to the west of a villa complex discovered in 2011. However, there was much more. What had happened on the northern and eastern sides of the villa, and how did these people connect with their neighbours? In 2021, we returned to Priors Hall to find out. The remains uncovered were nothing less that spectacular and included stunningly preserved Roman roads, pottery kilns and human remains. Join us for an unmissable journey from its humble beginnings in the Iron Age, the arrival of the Roman military and the stories of the people who lived, worked, and died here.
The originally advertised talk by Steven Kershaw has been rescheduled for 18th March 2025.
5th March
“Outside the Camp? The leper hospitals of Medieval England.”
Professor Carol Rawcliffe, University of East Anglia, Professor of medieval History. Remote lecturer.
19th March
“Pompeii and Herculaneum: a Moment in Time.”
Dr Jill Eyers, geologist, palaeontologist and archaeologist, regular OAS speaker.
2nd April
“Reconstructing the landscape at Blick Mead: what the latest science has revealed.”
Professor David Jacques, Professorial Research Fellow in Archaeology, University of Buckingham. Winner of Current Archaeology magazine’s “Archaeologist of the Year, 2023”. Remote lecturer.
16th April
“Following the Faultline, Gaziantep and Zeugma to Cavus Tepe.”
Charles Baily, Cambridge classicist, archaeologist, OAS member, regular OAS speaker.
7th May
“Chaucer and Fourteenth Century Europe.”
Professor Marion Turner, J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English literature, University of Oxford, Professorial Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, author. Remote lecturer.
21st May
“Probably a lot more than you ever wanted to know about the history of maps and mapping: The history of cartography.”
Professor Stephen Upex, landscape archaeologist, lecturer University of Cambridge, author, regular OAS speaker.
4th June
AGM
followed by:
“From Iron Age to Saxon: ordinary life and unusual death at RAF Cardington.”
David Ingham, Project manager, Albion Archaeology, Secretary to S and E Midlands CBA.
Lectures start at 10:00 with a break for tea, coffee and biscuits.
Membership is £45 for the year to June 2024.
Visitors to the talks at the Olney Centre, who are not members, pay £4 on arrival.
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