LECTURE PROGRAMME 2021-22
Lectures are currently being delivered via Zoom video conferencing software up to and including the 10th January lecture. Members receive an invitation via their email address. Non-members who would like to attend a Zoom lecture should contact the Secretary, Bob Ruffle – secretary@worcestershirearchaeologicalsociety.org.uk . There is a recommended donation of £2 per lecture.
Mon 20 September: Worcestershire church bells – craftsmanship and sound Chris Pickford
Mon 11 October: Westwood House, Droitwich: Sir John ‘Lusty’ Pakington and his Grand Design Nick Molyneux (Historic England)
Mon 1 November: Grown in the Vale – hidden tales of market gardening Nina O’Hare (WAAS)
Mon 22 November: Shrewsbury Castle and other shire-town castles Nigel Baker
Mon 13 December: It’s just a load of old rubbish: an archaeological study of industrial waste from the Worcester Porcelain Factories Helen Loney and Andrew Hoean (University of Worcester)
Mon 10 January: Crime, poverty and pub licencing: local petitioning in Worcestershire, c.1600-1800 Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck, University of London)
Mon 31 January: Ringing the dead to heaven: Worcester Cathedral and the lost belltower of St Michael Michael Shapland (Archaeology South-East / UCL Centre for Applied Archaeology)
Mon 21 February: Europe’s lost frontiers – the archaeology of Doggerland Vince Gaffney (University of Bradford)
Mon 14 March: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, followed by: Eat like your ancestors: the archaeology of food and farmed landscape and the future of food (a West Midlands perspective) Liz Pearson Mann (WAAS)
Mon 4 April: Tewkesbury Abbey: the archaeology and history of a great medieval Benedictine abbey in the west Ellie March (University of Exeter)
Mon 25 April THE BERKELEY LECTURE: An excavation in Fladbury revisited David Hinton (University of Southampton)