December 2024

• 2 Dec, 6.00, The Fifteen Faces of John Collingwood Bruce, Martha L Stewart, Lit and Phil, Westgate Road, Newcastle. Free but must book via their website.
• 3 Dec, 2.15, Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Fremantle, Terry Walton, Trinity House, Broad Chare, Newcastle. Collingwood Society event, £3 for non-members, no need to book.
• 3 Dec, 6.00, ‘The Caelian Hill through time: Landscape transformation in central SE Rome from the imperial to early medieval period’, Phyllida Bailey. Part of the Roman Archaeology Open Seminar series, Armstrong Building G.08, Newcastle University. Free, all welcome.
• 3 Dec, 7.00, Innovations in the Art and Craft of Stained Glass in the 19th Century, Peter Cormack MBE. Victorian Society online lecture, must book via Eventbrite, £6-£11.
• 5 Dec, 5.00, Warhorse: the Archaeology of a Medieval Revolution? Professor Oliver Creighton, Society of Antiquaries of London lecture, in-person or online, free but must book.
• 5 Dec, 6.00-7.30, Marine Archaeology and Heritage, Sarah Rousseau (English Heritage) and Stephanie Said (Wessex Archaeology), Common Room (former Mining Institute) Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1 1SE. Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment meeting, £5 for non-members. Must book via Eventbrite.
• 5 Dec, 7.00, English merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities, c.1588–c.1765,  Profs Craig Lambert and John McAleer (Univ of Southampton). British Association for Local History Dymond Lecture 2024, online. We are a member organisation of BALH, so we receive a discount on their tickets. Our discount code is F-20980L; enter 'Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne' in the Organisation box.
• 10 Dec, 6.00, ‘A Green and Pleasant Land?  Imagining Town and Country in Roman Britain in Post-War Historical Fiction’, David Walsh. Part of the Roman Archaeology Open Seminar series, Armstrong Building G.08, Newcastle University. Free, all welcome.
• 12 Dec, 7.00, George Tate: From draper’s apprentice to eminent geologist and historian, Alison Tymon, Northumberland Archives online talk, free, must register in advance. (NB, click on the box labelled 'General Admission 2', and not the one labelled 'General Admission', where it says the lecture is sold out).

• 14 Dec, 2.30, What the Romans did for Durham and Northumberland, David Mason, Senior Archaeologist, Durham County Council, AASDN lecture, Elvet Riverside building, New Elvet, Durham. Free, no need to book.
• 17 Dec, 7.00, The Philosophy of Puddings, Dr Neil Buttery ‘traces the long history of pudding and its importance in British culture and language’. Free and online, but must book.

 

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