The British Archaeological Association

Annual lecture series

Meetings are held at 5.00 p.m. in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0HS. Tea will be served at 4.30 p.m.

Non-members are welcome to attend occasional lectures but are asked to make themselves known to the Hon. Director on arrival and to sign the visitors book.

5 October 2011

‘Birkbeck training excavations in Syon Park: the Bridgettine Abbey and the formal gardens of Syon House’

by Harvey Sheldon

The lecture will be preceded by the Association's Annual General Meeting


2 November 2011

‘Creating and recreating the tombs to the Dukes of York in Fotheringhay Church’

by Dr Jenny Alexander and Sofija Matich


7 December 2011

‘Piety, politics and prestige: the friars and their patrons in late medieval Ireland’

by Dr Colmán Ó Clabaigh


4 January 2012

‘Gifts and the Richard II Inventory’
by Dr Jenny Stratford

The lecture will be followed by the Association's Twelfth-Night Party (booking required)


1 February 2012

‘Monumental and multi-lingual inscriptions in the city of Ani’

by Dr Tony Eastmond


7 March 2012

Medieval Building Stone’

by Tim Tatton-Brown


4 April 2012

The George Zarnecki Memorial lecture and reception

‘Inventing Romanesque Sculpture: patrons, artists, masons and art historians’

by Professor Sandy Heslop


2 May 2012

‘Imagining Passion in Paris: A new study of the wall paintings of martyrdom in the Sainte-Chapelle’

by Emily Guerry

The lecture will be followed by the President's Reception

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Annual General Meeting

Twelfth night party

President's Reception