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News

• Paperback copies of the 2022 volume of our learned journal Archaeologia Aeliana should be in the post to members on or about 23 October. (Hardback copies take around a fortnight longer). Anyone who was a member in 2022 is entitled to a copy, and it will also be made available online via our website shortly after dispatch. This is issue 1 of our new Series 6, and members will see some changes, including a new cover design.
• Work on the 2023 volume is well under way, and it is hoped that it will be out sometime in Spring 2024. Meanwhile, time is creeping on for anyone thinking of making a submission for the 2024 volume. The deadline is 15 Jan 2024, and potential contributors should follow this link for details of how to submit, and style guidelines.
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Books and Resources

• Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England (Boydell and Brewer, 2020), by Barbara Crosbie, our May lecturer, covers the experience of growing up on the banks of the Tyne in the eighteenth-century, and looks particularly at the highly contested election in Newcastle in 1774.
• ‘Early to Middle Bronze Age agricultural terraces in north-east England: morphology, dating and cultural implications’, by Clive Waddington et al, is an open-access article in Antiquity, vol 97, pages 348-366, about a multidisciplinary study of terraces in the Breamish Valley, Northumberland. Follow this link to read online or to download the pdf.
• The Courtauld Institute in London has put its enormous historic Conway Library photographic collection online. It includes 160,000 prints by Britain’s leading twentieth- century architectural photographer, Anthony Kersting, rare nineteenth-century photographs of world architecture, unpublished images revealing bomb damage across Europe following WWII, and T.E. Lawrence’s photographs of Saudi Arabia. Follow this link for details.
• The FeedSax project combined bioarchaeological data with evidence from settlement archaeology to investigate how, when and why the expansion of arable farming occurred between the 8th-13th centuries in England. It has now released a large archaeological dataset to underpin its own published findings and to support further research. This is now available on the Archaeology Data Service website, with an accompanying article.

Deaths

• His Honour Judge Christopher Walton, a former Recorder of Newcastle, a member since 2015, and a trustee, died on 9 April 2023.
• The distinguished early medieval archaeologist and scholar, Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp, died on 27 April 2023. She first joined the Antiquaries in January 1958. Follow this link for a tribute to her from Durham University.

 

 

 

 

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