The Beatrice de Cardi Lecture

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Beatrice de Cardi, 2009Beatrice de Cardi was first Assistant Secretary and latterly Secretary of the Council for British Archaeology from 1949 to 1973. In order to recognize her outstanding contribution to the CBA and to archaeology generally, the Council decided in 1976 to inaugurate a series of lectures, to be called after her. It is intended that the Lecturers are given the freedom to discuss any aspect of British archaeology from their own point of view.

The 1st Beatrice de Cardi Lecture was delivered in Oxford on 27 October 1976, jointly organized by the Council for British Archaeology and the Oxford University Department for External Studies. The Lecture fully justified the Council’s hopes that it would provide a valuable forum.

In recent years the Beatrice de Cardi Lecture has been held as an integral part of the CBA Weekend, an annual event for CBA supporters and members, that consists of a series of visits, lectures and activities focusing on the archaeological heritage of a particular region of the UK. Click here for details of the next Beatrice de Cardi lecture and CBA Weekend event.

Past Lectures

1st lecture pamphlet 2nd lecture pamphlet cover 8th lecture amphlet Beatrice de Cardi in Leicester 2005, with Francis Pryor, Nick Merriman and Peter Addyman

  1. Dec 1976, Oxford, Prof Charles Thomas, ‘After rescue what next?’ [published as CBA pamphlet, 20pp, 1976, ISBN 0 900312 42 4 foreword by CBA President, Prof B W Cunliffe]
  2. Nov 1977, Leeds, Mr Christopher Taylor, ‘Looking at cows field archaeology in the 1980s’ [published in CBA annual report no 28 for year ended 30 June 1978, pp 63 75]
  3. Dec 1978, Colchester, Mrs W Groeman van Wanteringe, ‘Are we too loud?’ [published in CBA annual report no 29 for year ended 30 June 1979, pp 58 74]
  4. Nov 1979, Bristol, Prof Martin Biddle, ‘Archaeology in Britain today: a transatlantic perspective’
  5. Dec 1980, Canterbury, Prof Maurice Barley, ‘Houses and history’ [published in CBA annual report no 31 for year ended 30 June 1981, pp 63 75]
  6. Dec 1981, Newcastle upon Tyne, Prof Barry Cunliffe, ‘Archaeology and its public’ [published in CBA annual report no 32 for year ended 30 June 1982, pp 59 64]
  7. Dec 1982, Manchester, Dr David Whitehouse, ‘British archaeology abroad: the role of the Schools and Institutes’ [published in CBA annual report no 33 for year ended 30 June 1983, pp 73 75]
  8. Sept 1983, St Andrews, Dr David Clarke, ‘Basic archaeology’ [published in CBA annual report no 34 for year ended 30 June 1984, pp 67 76]
  9. Nov 1984, Cardiff, Dr Aubrey Burl, ‘Stone circles: the Welsh problem’ [published in CBA annual report no 35 for year ended 30 June 1985, pp 72 82]
  10. Nov 1985, London, Prof J D Evans, ‘Archaeology in a cold climate’ [published in CBA annual report no 36 for year ended 30 June 1986, pp 71 88]
  11. Nov 1986, Nottingham, Mr Philip Barker, ‘Not drowning, just treading water’ [published in CBA annual report no 37 for year ended 30 June 1987, pp 70 76]
  12. Nov 1987, Plymouth, Prof John Coles, ‘Peat hags alive and dead’ [published in CBA annual report no 38 for year ended 30 June 1988, pp 68 73]
  13. Nov 1988, Southampton, Prof Peter Fowler, ‘The experimental earthworks 1958 88’ [published in CBA annual report no 39 for year ended 30 June 1989, pp 83 98]
  14. Dec 1989, Birmingham, Dr Neil Cossons, ‘The archaeology of the industrial revolution’ [published in CBA annual report no 40 for year ended 30 June 1990, pp 79 83]
  15. Nov 1990, Luton, Dr Derrick Riley, ‘Air photography the technique under scrutiny’ [published in CBA annual report no 41 for year ended 30 June 1991, pp 79 88]
  16. May 1991, York, M Henri Galinié, ‘Urban archaeology in Britain: the view from abroad’
  17. May 1993, Reigate, Dr David Breeze, ‘For love not money: the role of the amateur in archaeology’ [published in ‘Archaeology in Britain 1992’ pp 179 191]
  18. Nov 1994, Glasgow, Prof Kristian Kristiansen, ‘Historic environments in a green Europe: the role of archaeology’
  19. Oct 1996, Northampton, Dr Ann Hamlin, ‘The early Irish church’
  20. June 1998, Birmingham, Prof John Hunter, ‘Forsensic archaeology’
  21. Oct 1999, Weston super Mare, Prof Mick Aston, ‘Archaeology and the media’
  22. June 2000, Newport, Prof Barry Cunliffe,
  23. 2001, Durham, Prof Rosemary Cramp
  24. 2002, Bury St Edmunds, John Wymer, ‘Palaeolithic migration into East Anglia 500,000 years or more’
  25. 2003, Liverpool, Loyd Grossman, ‘The past: a look forward’
  26. 2004, Belfast, Julian Richards
  27. 2005, Leicester, Peter Liddle
  28. 2006, Salisbury, Peter Fowler, ‘Stonehenge, Avebury and other landscapes of the world’
  29. Sept 2007, York, Dr Simon Thurley, ‘Archaeology and Artifice: the Office of Works and the fabrication of medieval history’
  30. Oct 2008, London, Thorsten Opper, ‘Hadrian: Empire and conflict’
  31. Oct 2009, Shrewsbury, Marilyn Palmer, ‘Fifty years of Industrial Archaeology’
  32. Oct 2010, Truro, Peter Herring, ‘The Historic Landscape Characterisation Programme and its origins in Cornwall’
  33. Oct 2011, Oxford, Prof Richard Bradley, ‘British prehistory since 1948: the CBA’s research policy after sixty years’

N.B. no lecture was held in 1992, 1995 or 1997