• 15 Oct, 6.00, Virtual ‘Coffeehouse’ Seminar. Benjamin Westwood, Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme for County Durham, Darlington, and Teesside, will be talking about his experience during lockdown, followed by a live Questions and Answers. Free but places limited, please book via Eventbrite. Open to both members and non-members.
• 28 Oct, Monthly Meeting,Transforming Bede’s World: a journey in experimental archaeology, Dr Marco Romeo Pitone (Newcastle University). Further details tba.
• 11 Nov, 6.00, Virtual Public Lecture,  The speaker will be Professor Robert Morris (Edinburgh University), and the title is The Married Women’s Property Act of 1870: women and the built environment of 19th century houses. Having been arranged rather late, it is not in the Insights leaflet or on their website; keep an eye out for it. This is a reinstatement of our planned Public Lecture, held in conjunction with Newcastle University’s Insights Lecture series, which was cancelled at the beginning of the lockdown. It will be accessible via Eventbrite.
• 12 Nov, 2.00-3.30 and 27 Nov, 10.30-12.00, joint Round Table events between the Society and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies network at Newcastle University. Intended to provide tasters of some of the research work that has been going despite lockdown. Free, but must register in advance. Volunteers to make contributions also welcome.
• 25 Nov, 6.00, monthly meeting, In Search of the Shotley Bridge Swordmakers, speaker Helen Steadman. The flyer for this is now on the members’ section of the website.

The speakers listed below will be rescheduled for 2021. Details of replacement online lectures, on the same dates and times, will be provided as soon as possible.

30 Sept, 6.00, Monthly Meeting, Penny Middleton, In defence of Brancepeth: the medieval origins of Brancepeth Castle, 

14 Oct, 6.30, Coffee House Seminar in the basement cinema at Quilliam Brothers Tea House. 

28 Oct, 6.00,  Public lecture, Bob Morris, 'The Crack in the Ice', Women and Property and the making of the Married Women's Property Act 1870. (see note above)

11 Nov, 6.30, Coffee House Seminar in the basement cinema at Quilliam Brothers Tea House. 

25 Nov, 6.00, Monthly Meeting,Derek Teasdale, The Geology of Newcastle Cathedral, Venue TBC

Events that have already taken place

29 Jan, 6.00,  Monthly Meeting, Derek Cutts, John William Chater and the Song of the Carrion Chro [sic]: Satire in mid-Victorian Newcastle. This is also the Anniversary Meeting; follow these links for the agenda and a background paper. You can also look here at the Draft Constitution for a CIO, and our revised statutes under the proposal.

12 Feb, 6.30, Community Archaeology in the North of England, Teahouse Talk in the basement cinema at Quilliam Brothers Tea House.  Speakers Rob Collins (Newcastle Univ and co-ordinator of WallCap), Steve Collinson (Northern Archaeological Associates), and Philip Bastow (Swaledale and Arkengarthdale Archaeology Group).

26 Feb, 6.00,  Monthly Meeting, Jenny Proctor, A history of the walled garden at Alnwick Castle. Jenny's book on the topic, Parterres Bright with Flowers was available at the meeting, at a discounted price of £25.

14 March, Country Walk, Wylam Station to Newburn Waggonway led by Denis Peel. Read a report of it here.

25 March, 6.00,  Monthly Meeting, Nick Hodgson, The discovery and excavation of the Roman baths at Wallsend (Segedunum) in 2014-15.  CANCELLED, but will be re-arranged for another season. In its place, Nick has supplied an e-lecture on A Roman Pandemic, which you can read here.

29 April, 6.00, Monthly Meeting, Ronan O’Donnell, Landscapes of the Great Depression in the North East. Room 2.98, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University. CANCELLED

27 May, 6.00, Monthly Meeting, Andrea Dolfini, The Way of the Sword: New Insights on Bronze Age Fighting Practices.CANCELLED, but Andrea has kindly provided an alternative presentation, on Violence and Warfare in Bronze Age Society.  Slides and a lecture transcript for Part 1 are now available; Part II will follow. As this is material he would usually provide for his students, he has asked that we restrict access to members, so you will need to log in to see these.

29 July, online Monthly Meeting, In Excited Times; The People Against The Blackshirts on Tyneside, Nigel Todd. A recording of this is now on our YouTube channel.

26 Aug, online Monthly Meeting, The Maddison Monument in Newcastle Cathedral, Or The Multiple Meanings of Material Culture, Professor Jeremy Boulton (Newcastle University).

30 Sept, Monthly Meeting, Susanna Phillippo, Airy citadels, tyrannous cacti, Mycenae’s astonishing stones: Belsay Hall and Sir Charles Monck’s travel diaries, Her handout is now on the Members' Section of our website, and a YouTube recording will be available to memebrs in due course.