The Research Committee has arranged the Annual Symposium for 2015 to include a range of speakers on Surrey topics. Prof. Alan Crocker will also be demonstrating papermaking during the lunch break. Displays from groups will be on show and new exhibitors are welcome. As usual the displays will have the chance to be judged for the Margary Award. A full programme is listed here:
9.30 REGISTRATION
10.00 Chair:
10.05 Recent finds in Surrey: FLO: David Williams
A meeting will be held at The Education Centre, Guildford Cathedral when the keynote speakers will be Prof John Arnold of Birkbeck and Prof Diane Watt of Surrey University. There will also be contributions from four members of the Forum. The cost of the day is £10 per person (£5 for students under 21). Please see the attached programme for details of all the presentations and of time, location etc.
The 51st Annual Conference of London Archaeologists organised by the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society will take place in the Weston Theatre Museum of London.
The morning will be a round up of Recent Work in London and Middlesex, followed by an affternoon themed on 'Arenas of Entertainment in Tudor and Jacobean London'.
A flyer PDF is attached showing full details and booking arrangements.
This day will feature Professor Christopher Dyer CBE FBA Emeritus Professor at Leicester University as the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include Richard Savage FSA who will provide an update of his studies of Old Woking. Further details are attached below.
The Medieval Studies Forum will meet in Cobham Village Hall. The programme (attached) includes a variety of presentations together with discussions and debate on the contribution on the Saxon and post-conquest periods that the Forum will present to the Surrey Historic Environment Research Framework (SHERF) Conference in the autumn.
Places are running out quickly for the forthcoming IHR summer school, taking place at Senate House on 4-6 July 2013 on the subject of Local History in the towns. Last year’s summer school proved to be hugely popular with individuals fascinated with local history and the event quickly filled up. We are expecting this year’s summer school to be equally popular, if not more so.
Places are running out quickly for the forthcoming Institute of Historical Research summer school, taking place at Senate House on 4-6 July 2013 on the subject of Local History in the towns. Last year’s summer school proved to be hugely popular with individuals fascinated with local history and the event quickly filled up. We are expecting this year’s summer school to be equally popular, if not more so.
Lectures and conferences of archaeological and historical interest are held by local Surrey groups and in adjacent counties. This list is of future conferences held in adjacent counties:
