7pm Tuesday 2nd October 2018 Speaker: Richard Bradley Excavation and watching-brief work by Worcestershire Archaeology over a number of years of quarry extraction has identified multiple phases of activity, mainly of prehistoric date. This has included well-preserved palaeoenvironmental deposits, Mesolithic
WOW! What a site! An update on the excavation of Roman and Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Baginton
7pm Tuesday 6th November 2018 Speaker: Nigel Page An archaeological excavation was carried out on land at Whitley South, Baginton, Warwickshire in 2017, on high ground overlooking the River Sowe and Coventry to the North. The excavation revealed a series
The Ice Age and Palaeolithic West Midlands a.k.a The Original West Midlands Safari Park
AGM Night Tuesday 4th December 2018 6.45pm Speaker: Nick Daffern The West Midlands is often overlooked in favour of the east and south-east of England but this talk aims to show that the West Midlands has an incredibly important part
Digging HS2
ANNUAL LUNCHTIME LECTURE Tuesday 8th January 2019 at 1pm Speaker Robert Early The north section of HS2 spans 87 km, and forks into Birmingham. The whole project is the largest historic environment project undertaken in the UK and as such
A Broad View: investigations on the Broadway flood alleviation scheme
6th March 2018 Speaker: Richard Bradley Lecture commences 7pm Excavation and watching-brief work by Worcestershire Archaeology uncovered a large multi-period site with at least 8000 years of activity. This included scatters of
A History of Birmingham Museums
10th April 2018 Speaker: Dr Ellen McAdam Lecture starts at 7pm Birmingham cautiously considered the need for a civic museum for several decades. The first objects in the collection pre-date even Aston Hall, acquired by the city in 1864. However,
Lecture dates – 2017-18
Dates for your diaries. Evening lectures series - 7pm to 8pm - in the Birmingham Midland Institute, Margaret Street unless otherwise stated. Tuesday 3rd October 2017; Tuesday 5th December 2017; Tuesday 6th February 2018; Tuesday 6th March 2018 and Tuesday
A Neolithic Henge Monument and recent other finds from Warwickshire
Tuesday 7th November 2017 Speaker: Nigel Page Find out more about recent finds from archaeological sites in Warwickshire. At long last, Warwickshire can now boast a Neolithic henge ‘culture’ to complement if not rival other regions. Five have been fully
Birmingham Artists, Antiquaries & Architects; discovering and recording the past in the late 19th century.
Tuesday 5th December 2017 Speaker: Stephen Price AGM 6.45 – 7pm, Lecture commences 7pm Concentrating on a handful of leading lights in the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society – A.E. Everitt, Oliver & Harold Baker and Jethro Cossins who were all
The Leekfrith Torcs: A talk on the Torcs!
Tuesday 9th January 2018 Annual Lunchtime Lecture 1pm – 2pm Speaker: Teresa Gilmore The talk will cover the recent spectacular find from the Staffordshire Moorlands, that of the Leekfrith Torcs, the earliest Iron Age gold found so far and the early