2025 programme

Full details are in our programme card, sent out in the December mailing. Please note that all meetings this year will be in Lecture Theatre 2, Herschel Building, Newcastle University, unless otherwise specified below.

• 26 Feb, 6.00, The influence of geology on the Romans and their northern frontier - does a geoscience perspective reinforce or challenge received wisdoms? Ian Jackson (author of The Rocks at the Edge of the Empire) He will be signing copies of the book after the meeting.
• 26 March, 6.00, Uncovering Roman Carlisle, Frank Giecco.
• 30 April, 6.00, The Ghosts of Newcastle Gaol: Bringing a Victorian Prison Back to Life, Shane McCorristine and Patrick Low. This is also our Annual General Meeting, and the notice will be posted on this website in due course.
• 28 May, 6.00, Anglo-Scottish Spiritual and Material Economies in the 1649-50 Newcastle Witch Hunt, Katie Liddane
• June 2025. Our annual social evening, this year in the Ouseburn with guided walks of Ballast Hills Burial Ground and the surrounding area, followed by food and drinks. Further details and date to be announced.
• 25 June, 6.00, A whistle-stop tour down the Stockton & Darlington Railway: stories and points of interest along the route of the 1825 main line, Eric Branse-Instone
• 30 July, 6.00,  The Mercian Chronicles: a southern window on Early Medieval Northumbria, Max Adams
• 27 August, 6.00, The design and construction of the Antonine Wall, Bill Hanson
• 24 September, 6.00, Weaving a Story: A North Northumberland Early-Middle Anglo-Saxon site with later links to the Viking Great Army, Jane Harrison
• 29 October, 6.00,  Last line of defence? Excavating the Roman frontier at Magna fort, Rachel Frame. This is our Annual Public Lecture, in the Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University,
• 26 November, 6.00,  New Shildon: an exploration of a pioneering railway town fuelled by coal, Marcus Jecock and Lucy Jessop.

There will also be walks, outings, and at least one informal research seminar; details will be included here once announced.

Events that have already taken place

• 29 Jan, Monthly Meeting, The SANT  Library: Past, Present and Future, Denis Peel (our former Hon Librarian). Follow this link for the Zoom recording. Unfortunately it is rather unclear at the beginning, but thanks to our volunteer Michael Johnson for making the recording as good as it may be.
• 1 Feb, 9.30-1.00, Postgraduate Research Conference, intended as the first in a series of annual events, bringing together new work on the history and archaeology of North East England. Keeton-Lomas Lecture Theatre, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University. 

Follow this link to see earlier years' programmes