February – Dr Hannah Cutler – The Archaeology of Ipswich
For our online meeting on February 19th at 2.00 pm Dr Hannah Cutler of Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service will be taking us on a... 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
January meeting – Angel Roof Churches in East Anglia – Sarah Cassell
For our first meeting of 2020 we welcome Dr Sarah Cassell, an Associate Tutor at UEA where she completed her PhD thesis on angel roofs... Read More
Happy Christmas
A very happy Christmas and New Year to all our members and subscribers, and thank you for supporting us and coming along to our meetings... Read More
November meeting – Mystic Beasts – David Wollweber
For our last meeting of 2019 we turn again to our Secretary Dave Wollweber who came across some strange carvings above the Ancient House in... Read More
October meeting – The Basque Children in Suffolk – Dr Edward Packard
On October 12th we welcome back as our guest speaker Dr Edward Packard, ‘the third most famous Edward Packard from Ipswich’ Ed will tell us... Read More
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