July Meeting – Michael Schmoelz – Controlling the Quest for Sanctity
Controlling the quest for sanctity – the pilgrimage business and how to escape it. For our July meeting we welcome back Michael Schmoelz. Michael last... Read More
June Meeting – Dr James Wright – Medieval Stonemasons: from Quarry to Cathedral
After a couple of live meetings with Dr Helen Geake and Professor Tristan Carter we’re heading back to Zoom for our June meeting when we... Read More
May Meeting – Prof. Tristan Carter – Excavating Suffolk’s First Farmers
New Work at the Freston Causewayed Enclosure On May 14th we welcome Professor Tristan Carter, Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Fortunately... Read More
April meeting – Dr Helen Geake – the Sutton Hoo ship
For our first face to face meeting in over two years we we’re very pleased to welcome Dr Helen Geake who will be talking to... Read More
March – A walk in the country with Dr Sarah Spooner
First, a big thank you to Dr Hannah Cutler for her talk on the archaeology of Ipswich on February 19th, and I hope the technical... Read More
January meeting – Prof. Rob Liddiard
For our first meeting of 2022 we welcome back Rob Liddiard who will be talking to us about his latest research on the defences of... Read More
Coming up in 2022
It’s been another roller coaster year one way and another; as Harold Macmillan may or may not have remarked “Events, dear boy, events” Still, looking... Read More
Cancelled – November meeting – Prehistory in the Peloponnese
Please note this meeting has been cancelled. Just for a change this November we’re heading a long way from the Waveney Valley, back to Neolithic... Read More
September Meeting – Anti-Invasion Defences of the UK 1940-1943
For our first meeting after our summer break we welcome as our guest speaker Chris Kolonko. Chris is an archaeologist specialising in the archaeology of... Read More
June meeting – Graffiti and Our Painted Past
Following our very well received May talk from Will Bowden on the the Romans in the land of the Iceni, in June we move forward... Read More
May Meeting – After Boudicca, Being Roman in the Land of the Iceni
For our May virtual meeting we we are very pleased to welcome Will Bowden, whose talk – After Boudicca, Being Roman in the Land of... Read More
April Meeting – The Blythburgh Hoard
Following our very successful Zoom meetings with Elizabeth McDonald and James Wright (slight technical hiccups aside), we’ll be virtually meeting on Saturday April 17th at... Read More
February Update
First of all, thank you to Dr Elizabeth McDonald for her talk He Loves Me, He Loves Me not, the First Valentine’s Letter, and apologies... Read More
January Update
“He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not”: Margery Brews and the “first” Valentine’s Letter. We’re happy to announce our first virtual event on Saturday 13th... Read More
Bungay Cemetery Recording Project
Graveyards possess an important role in a community as the final resting place for its population, and these spaces bear witness to the desire for... Read More
Coronavirus Update
We have decided we have to cancel our meetings scheduled for June 13th with Jo Porter and July 18th with Sarah Spooner. We hope to... Read More
Coronavirus – Meetings Cancelled
We have reluctantly taken the decision to cancel our next two meetings on April 18th and May 16th. We will be reviewing the situation as... Read More
POSTPONED – March meeting
Because of the rapid increase in the number of reported and confirmed cases of coronavirus over the last 48 hours we have reluctantly taken the... Read More
Hatched, Matched and Dispatched
Rowena Burgess, who spoke to us about the Swing riots in February, will be giving a talk at the Fisher Theatre in Bungay on May... Read More
March meeting – Coming to a Stop – Rob Liddiard
This month we are very pleased to welcome back Rob Liddiard. Based on new research Rob’s talk will be about the archaeology of the defensive... Read More
February meeting – The Swing Riots in Norfolk – Rowena Burgess
England in the first half of the nineteenth century was not a particularly tranquil land. The Luddite movement in the early years of the century... Read More
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