Lecture Speaker: David Freke
David Freke, MA DipAD, FSA MCIFA
Degree in Fine Art at Chelsea, Post Graduate degree in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, but swapped the library and the gallery for the tent and the trench as a peripatetic archaeologist. Became Urban Archaeologist for the Institute of Archaeology, London, and then director of Liverpool University Field Archaeology Unit working in the North West and the Isle of Man, where he survived racing sidecars in the TT. Joined a national environmental consultancy in Oxfordshire which brought him to Oxford over 30 years ago and ultimately to south Warwickshire, where he lives on a farm surrounded by the earthworks of a deserted medieval village. Perhaps coincidently he is interested in local and landscape history, and more recently in the vernacular products of early modern country masons, as exemplified in local churchyards.
Lecture Speaker: Dr Roger White
Dr Roger White
Roger White has recently retired as a Senior Lecturer with the department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham. He is now an Honorary Research Fellow with CAHA. His primary interest and research has been in the site of the Roman town of Viriconium at Wroxeter, whose archaeology has sustained his interest in the transition from late Roman Britain to the early middle ages. He is currently working with the Portable Antiquities Scheme to catalogue the fifth century Wem Hoard of hacksilver prior to its display in Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery.
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Lecture Speaker: Dr Mike Hodder
Dr Mike Hodder
Dr Mike Hodder is a very long-standing member of the Society. He has been involved in the investigation, protection, management and display of archaeological sites of all periods in the West Midlands for the whole of his career. A graduate of the University of Birmingham, he has been Sandwell Borough Archaeologist and Birmingham City Archaeologist and he is an Honorary Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Birmingham.
Mike is currently undertaking fieldwork in Sutton Park, a medieval deer park, which he has been researching for many years and was the subject of one of his earliest publications, in the Society’s Transactions for 1980. He has recently contributed to the forthcoming “Pevsner” Buildings of England volume on Birmingham and the Black Country, and he has been involved with the archaeology of historic churches for many years as a member of the Birmingham Diocesan Advisory Committee.
Solihull Archaeological Group - Lecture Programme 2021/22
Did you know that members of BWAS and SAG (Solihull Archaeological Group) are entitled to attend each other’s lectures as affiliated societies?
You can find the Solihull Archaeological Group Lecture Programme for 2021/22 here.
