Programme 2026
Most of our 2026 monthly meetings are in Lecture Theatre 2, Herschel Building, Newcastle University (except for the February and October events, please see below). We also aim to livestream our lectures to members, and to put recordings of them (subject to the lecturer's consent) on our YouTube channel.
We also arrange a series of other events, including walks, trips to places of interest, research seminars and social gatherings. Details of these will be included here when available.
23 January, 9.00 start, Winter Walk, West Newcastle Riverside Heritage. Meeting point, Elswick Wharf car park, Skinnerburn Road, NE1. Please let Rosie Serdiville know by e-mail or phone, 0774 979 8023 if you are planning to come, and provide a contact number in case of last-minute changes. (This is the walk originally scheduled for 9 Jan)
28 January, 6.00, The Spy in a Berwick Garden, Lindsay Allason-Jones. Book signing afterwards, for her book of the same name, published by Northumberland Archives, £9.99 + p and p. This is also our Anniversary Meeting. Members may follow this link for the formal agenda.
25 February, 6.00, Anglo-Scottish Spiritual and Material Economies in the 1649-50 Newcastle Witch Hunt, Katie Liddane. Room G.05, Percy Building, Newcastle University
25 March, 6.00, If prehistory is defined by stones, why do we know so little about them? The influence of geology on prehistory in the north of England, Ian Jackson
29 April, 6.00, Travelling Britannia: a materialist and experiential perspective, James Gerrard. This is also our Annual General Meeting. The formal meeting notice will be available in the Members' Section in due course. Nominations for our Council need to reach the Secretary by 25 February 2026.
27 May, 6.00, The late-Roman fort at South Shields and its early-medieval afterlife: the results of a 40-year project, Nick Hodgson
24 June, 6.00, Clifftop Secrets: Marshall Meadows and the Late Iron Age\Romano-British Settlement Dynamics of the Tyne–Forth Region, Matt Hobson
29 July, 6.00, The General Strike in the North East, 1926, Joe Redmayne
26 August, 6.00 Ways of seeing Northumberland National Park: the development of a twentieth century National Park identity, Nick Pepper
30 September, 6.00, “The whole is a fine sight…” – Edlingham Castle and the Feltons, 1295 - 1396, late reflections from the excavations of 1978-82, Graham Fairclough,
28 October, 6.00 Visible invisibles: women in Roman archaeology, Tatiana Ivleva & Rebecca Jones. This is our Annual Public Lecture with Newcastle University Insights, so it is in the Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University, and you will need to register in advance if you are attending in person.
25 November, 6.00, The Melsonby hoards - chariots and power in the North Yorkshire Iron Age, Tom Moore,
Follow this link for a live map of the University Campus. The Herschel Building is off Percy Street, up steps or a ramp opposite the exit from Haymarket metro station.
Follow this link for the 2025 programme.
