LECTURE PROGRAMME 2017-18
Meetings take place at 7.30 pm in the Lecture Theatre, the Royal Grammar School, Upper Tything, Worcester, WR1 1 HP (Free car parking in Little London)
Visitors welcome: Guest membership is £2 per meeting (FREE for registered students)
Mon 18 September: 20 years of treasure: The Portable Antiquities Scheme in Worcestershire Angie Bolton (Portable Antiquities Scheme, Museums Worcestershire)
Mon 9 October: Worcestershire’s earliest farming settlement: Late Bronze Age occupation at Huntsman’s Quarry, Kemerton Robin Jackson (Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service)
Mon 30 October: Investigating historic Droitwich: Its streets and people Lyn Blewitt and Stephen Price (Historic Droitwich Project)
Mon 20 November: Demons and Bugs in Early Modern England Darren Oldridge (Institute of Humanities & Creative Arts, University of Worcester)
Mon 11 December: The Celtic place-names of Worcestershire Andrew Breeze (University of Navarre)
Mon 15 January: In search of Worcester’s Anglo-Saxon cathedrals Chris Guy (Worcester Cathedral), and Simon Haddrell (Stratascan SUMO)
Mon 5 February: John Gwynn: 18th century town planner and bridge builder: ‘a fine, lively, rattling fellow’ Stefka Ritchie (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham) and David Whitehead (Victoria County History of Herefordshire)
Mon 26 February: Saving Victorian and Edwardian buildings in the West Midlands Tim Bridges (Victorian Society)
Mon 19 March: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, followed by: Museum Archaeology and the new Worcestershire Archaeological Society Gallery Deborah Fox and Rachel Robinson (Museums Worcestershire)
Mon 16 April: THE BERKELEY LECTURE The landscape history of the Malvern Hills; new discoveries George Demidowicz, (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham)