Important Notice: Coronavirus Until further notice, our Monthly meetings are being held online, via Zoom. The Zoom links will be on the flyers in the Members' section of this website. Check the home page of this website for future developments (other pages may not have been updated) |
Coming events 2021
- 28 April 2021, 6.00, Annual General Meeting for 2020 and monthly meeting, Somme Crosses of the Durham Light Infantry: a case study in memorialisation, Dr. Andrew Marriott.The AGM agenda and the Zoom details are in the Members' Section
- 21 May, 7.30, Photo-Quiz Night. We have several thousand pictures and slides on our Flickr site. For many of them we have no identification or only a very general one. So this is your opportunity to have a bit of fun, and help with identification at the same time. The flyer and the dossier of photos are in the Members’ Section of this website.
- 26 May, 6.00, Monthly Meeting, In defence of Brancepeth: the Medieval origins of Brancepeth Castle, Penny Middleton.
- 9 June, Object Biographies, next in our series of virtual Coffee House Seminars, Daisy-Alys Vaughan on the Shefton Collection at the Great North Museum, and Rheba Macha, on representations of Black people in Western collections of Greco-Roman art
- 30 June, 6.00, Mrs Atkinson's World, Richard Atkinson
- 28 July, 6.00, The discovery and excavation of the Roman baths at Wallsend, Dr Nick Hodgson
- 25 August, 6.00, Recent research and 3D modelling of Newcastle Castle, David Silk
- 29 Sept, 6.00, Putting the Prehistory of the North Pennines on the Map; Discoveries Made During the English Heritage 'Miner-Farmer Landscapes' Projects, Alastair Oswald
- 13 Oct, Coffee House Seminar - subject and speakers TBA
- 27 Oct, 6.00, Public Lecture, To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat
- 24 Nov, 6.00 Horsley Memorial Lecture, One Step at a Time: Planning, Surveying and Building Hadrian’s Wall, and the Implications, Professor David Breeze
Events that have already taken place;
See the Recordings and Handouts page of this website for links to YouTube recordings where available (you need to be logged in as a member to access this page)
- 27 Jan 2021, 6.00, Annual General Meeting for 2019 and anniversary meeting; The Way of the Sword: New Insights on Bronze Age Fighting. Dr Andrea Dolfini.
- 30 Jan 2021, Afternoon on the Tyne, the first of two Saturday afternoon sessions of short talks on the theme of the Tyne, with speakers each taking a topic relating to one place on the riverside.
- 10 February 2021, Coffee House Seminar, Best Foot Forward: representations of feet and footwear in the Roman Empire, Liz Shaw, and The Headstud-Trumpet series of brooches, Victoria Szafara
- 17 February 2021, Martin Roberts' talk about revising Pevsner’s County Durham oavailable on the Northern Architectural History Society's YouTube channel. Please do not share this link with non-members without permission.
- 24 February 2021, Landscapes of the Great Depression in the North East, Dr Ronan O'Donnell.
- 26 February 2021, Antiquaries/ MEMS spring round table; talks by Kirsten Gibson and Steph Carter, David Jones, John Pearson, and Sue Shaw
- 27 February 2021, Afternoon on The Tyne; pdfs of Judith Green’s, Frances McIntosh's and Les Turnbull’s slides are now on the website, and here are the YouTube links to John Taberham’s short film and re-runs of Greg Finch’s and Sue Ward’s presentations.
- 12 March, Hadrian's Wall Round Table, talks by Stacey Gillis, Ian Kille, and Rob Collins
- 31 March 2021, The Wooden Underworld: the wooden collection at Vindolanda, Dr. Anneke Hackenbroich. See the members' section for the flyer; a recording will be available in due course.