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The Merseyside Archaeological Society organises a series of regular events including lectures, fieldtrips, and fieldwork - many of which are open to non members.

THURSDAY EVENING LECTURE PROGRAMME 2008-09

16^th October               Dr Roger White, FSA MIFA, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, Birmingham, and Academic Director, Ironbridge Institute, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.

'Reconstructing a Viking Community: recent work on the Neston Crosses'

20^th November            Dr Richard Benjamin. Head of the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool

'The International Slavery Museum: an active campaigner'.  

11^th December            Christmas meeting - Diana Goodier,  a member of a Dark Ages re-enactment group The Wirhalh Skip Felag (the Wirral
Vikings).

'Viking and Saxon Re-enactment: Experimental archaeology?'  

                                     PRE-BOOKING REQUIRED FOR THIS MEETING

15^th January               Dr Mark Adams, Archaeological Project Officer, National Museums Liverpool.

                                    Recent archaeological excavations at Manchester Dock’

19^th February              Dr Joan Taylor, recently retired from the post of John Rankin Reader in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.

‘Gold reflections'  

19^th March                  Dr George Nash, part-time lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol and Associate Archaeologist at SLR Consulting.

'The art, the stone and the structure: Reconstructing the Calderstones passage grave monument'  

April                            The date of the AGM and speaker remain to be announced.

IMPORTANT NOTE – CHANGE OF VENUE FOR LECTURE MEETINGS

From October, evening lectures (except the Christmas meeting) will take place at the new Friends’Meeting House at 22 School Lane, off Hanover Street, near the Bluecoat Centre.  Meetings will be held on the second floor.  All our evening lectures begin at 7.30 pm and finish round about 9.00 pm (we can stay longer as the room is booked till 10.00 pm).

We hope that more members will find this venue accessible as it is close to Central, James Street and Lime Street railway stations and to Queens Square bus station.  As car parking arrangements are changing all the time due to the redevelopment of the city centre, we suggest you try the Friends Meeting House website link (www.liverpoolquakers.org.uk).for up-to-date car parking information but the existing multi-storey car parks in the city centre are only a brief walking distance away. As there is a small kitchen attached to the room we would like to invite you all to enjoy tea or coffee and biscuits from 7.00 pm on 16 October.