2021 programme

Note; Some of the Recordings and Handouts have access restricted to members; see that page of this website for the links where necessary (you need to be logged in as a member to access this page). Summaries of all the events up to and including the October monthly meeting are included in our latest News Bulletin, dated Dec 2021.

• 27 Jan 2021, 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, 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. Members can follow this link to view the recordings.
• 17 February, Martin Roberts' talk about revising Pevsner’s County Durham. Members can follow this link to view the recording, available on the Northern Architectural History Society's YouTube channel. Please do not share this link with non-members without permission.
• 24 February, Landscapes of the Great Depression in the North East, Dr Ronan O'Donnell. Members can follow this link to view the recording.
• 26 February, Antiquaries/ MEMS spring round table; talks by Kirsten Gibson and Steph Carter, David Jones, John Pearson, and Sue Shaw. Members can follow this link to view the recordings.
• 27 February, Afternoon on The Tyne; pdfs of Judith Green’s, Frances McIntosh's and Les Turnbull’s slides are now on the website, and there are also YouTube links to John Taberham’s short film and re-runs of Greg Finch’s and Sue Ward’s presentations. Members can follow this link to view the recordings.
• 12 March, Hadrian's Wall Round Table, talks by Stacey Gillis, Ian Kille, and Rob Collins. Members can follow this link to view the recordings.
• 31 March, The Wooden Underworld: the wooden collection at Vindolanda, Dr. Anneke Hackenbroich. Follow this link for the recording on Vindoland's YouTube channel.
• 28 April, Annual General Meeting for 2020 and monthly meeting, Somme Crosses of the Durham Light Infantry: a case study in memorialisation, Dr. Andrew Marriott. Members can follow this link to view the recording.
• 26 May, Monthly Meeting, Trimontium and beyond: current projects and future plans, Dr John H. Reid. Members can follow this link to view the recording.
• 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. Members can follow this link to view the recordings.
• 30 June, Mrs Atkinson's World, Richard Atkinson. Members can follow this link to view the recordings.
• 28 July,The discovery and excavation of the Roman baths at Wallsend, Dr Nick Hodgson. Members can follow this link to view the recordings.
• 31 July, Summer Visit, to Newburn Village and St Michael’s and All Angels Church.
• 25 August, Recent research and 3D modelling of Newcastle Castle, Richard Pears (replacing our scheduled speaker David Silk, who has apologised for his non-appearance having mistaken the date). Members can follow this link to view a re-recording, as the original recording was unuseable due to technical problems.
• 29 Sept, Putting the Pre-History of the North Pennines on the Map, Alastair Oswald. Members can follow this link to view the recording.
• 27 Oct, Public Lecture, To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat. A summary of his talk appeared in News Bulletin 72 (December 2021)
• 24 Nov, Horsley Memorial Lecture, One Step at a Time: Planning, Surveying and Building Hadrian’s Wall, and the Implications, Professor David Breeze. No recording, but members can follow this link to view pdfs of his slides and a summary The lecture will appear as an article in Archaeologia Aeliana in due course.