Calendar of future events

 

April 2024

• 3 April, 7.00 The Steam Waterworks: Architecture in the Service of Public Health, James Douet, Victorian Society talk, online, must book via Eventbrite, £6-11.
• 4 April, launch date for Hadrian's Wall in our Time, 'To the memory of a fallen tree in Sycamore Gap', edited by our member and former President David Breeze. Follow this link for the flyer and to order a copy. David has arranged a discount of 20% for us and members of other learned societies.  The code,  734920, is used at the basket screen, so add the book to the basket first, then apply the code before checkout.
• 4 April, 7.30. Black Sailors in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, John D Ellis, Trinity House, Broad Chare, Newcastle NE1 3DQ. Collingwood Society lecture, £3 for non-members, light refreshments available. Follow this link for their 2024 events diary.
• 6 April, 10.00-6.30, Dramatic Margins: Medieval English Theatre Conference 2024, Newcastle University. All welcome, must register, £40 (refreshments and lunch included), or £10 for students. Follow this link for the programme and other details.
• 9 April, 7.30, If Stones Could Talk: Puzzling Buildings Around Hexham, Trinity Methodist Church Hall, Beaumont Street, Hexham. Hexham Local History Society talk, small payment for non-members. Follow this link to see their programme of talks for 2024.
• 13 April, 2.30, Excavation and Building Recording at Egglescliffe Old Hall, Kate Chapman (ECUS Ltd), Elvet Riverside (Room ER140), New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3AQ. AASDN lecture, all welcome.

• 20 April, 11.00 (refreshments available from 10.30), Collections of Tyne and Wear Museum Service, Bill Griffiths, at Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend. Friends of Segedunum talk, £3 for non-members.
• 25 April, 7.30, Military Roads in Scotland, John Poulter, Roman Roads Research Association lecture, online, free but must book via Eventbrite.
• 27 Apr, 9.30-5.00, Presenting the Food of the Past in Museums and Historic Houses, 2024 Leeds Symposium on Food History & Traditions, held in York, at Quaker Meeting House. Booking is via Eventbrite, and the cost for the day is £25.