CBA Network
CBA East
IP conference centre, Ipswich 28.09.19
Recent Archaeology in East of England: A conference celebrating 75 years of the CBA. £20 members/£25 non members http://cbae.archaeologyuk.org/events
CBA East Midlands
Ice Age Landscape and Culture: Newark Academy, London Road, Newark, 23.11.19 This conference will showcase some of the results from an HLF-funded enterprise to link the Ice Age Journeys project at Farndon Fields with the major Ice Age sites at Bradgate Park and Creswell Crags. The project has focused on mapping the Ice Age landscape, and exploring past culture by making replica artefacts for use in resource boxes for primary schools. Further details will be announced in due course
CBA London
https://archaeologyinlondon.com/
CBA North
Our website and emails to members continue with regional news as well as the events and activities of our local group members and others, whilst our own events for the year are being planned - of which details will be announced in due course to members. For further details, news and more please see our website https://cbanorth.wordpress.com/
If you can't see what you want or wish to contribute please feel free to contact us at cbanorth@archaeologyuk.org or contact one of the committee.
CBA North West
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/cbanw/ CBANW_notices.html
CBA East South East
Full-day tours to current research excavations and historic sites and towns across the south-east, led by local experts. Tours run until October, with sites ranging from Roman villas to Tudor Palaces. Free to all CBA-SE members, or a small cost for nonmembers. Limited spaces, early booking is recommended. To book or enquire contact Events Officer, Dr Anne Sassin, at events@cbasoutheast.org http://www.cbasouth-east.org/events
CBASE 2019 joint annual conference and AGM, Univeristy of Kent, Canterbury, 02.11.19
This year’s annual conference “An Archaeological Perspective on links between the South East and the Continent” and AGM will be run jointly with Kent Archaeological Society Fieldwork Committee and set in the cathedral city of Canterbury. For further information contact: membership@kentarchaeology.org.uk.
CBA South Midlands
East Midlands Historic Environment Research Framework: conference, Lakeside, Nottingham, 05.10.19
This conference, hosted jointly by CBA South Midlands and CBA East Midlands, will mark the culmination of a project to focus future lines of research into the historic environment in the East Midlands. It will give examples of some of the best research that has taken place in the past; further details and booking arrangements will appear in due course: https://tinyurl.com/y76l596l
Autumn conference: Winslow Public Hall, Winslow, Buckinghamshire, 20.10.19 Details of our autumn conference will appear as soon as they are available, but save the date in the meantime.
CBA Wales/Cymru
WOOLOLOGY!?, Royal Welsh Winter Fair, Builth Wells, Powys, 25-26.11.19 CBA Wales in conjunction with the Clywd Powys Archaeological Trust will be exploring all sorts of fascinating connections between wool use / sheep rearing and archaeology at the the Royal Welsh Winter Fair. As part of the Council for the Protection of Rural Wales’s sponsorship stand for the Woolpacking and Handling competition, the archaeologists will be showcasing the impact of sheep rearing on our landscape and exploring the ways in which humans have used wool for their own ends. This will include looking at archaeological finds, displays of traditional crafts and opportunities
Last autumn St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff completed a major re-invention taking six years and costing £30m. In July it was announced as Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019, an important prize that brings £100,000 as well as prestige. St Fagans began in the 1940s as a folk museum with rebuilt houses furnished with period artefacts. It now has a wider remit, with a heavy emphasis on community engagement. Buildings are still the to get interactive with fleece! Find us near the Woolpacking competition areas. http://www.rwas.wales/
CBA Wessex
2019 Conference ‘Sunrise over the Stones: Recent Research into Neolithic and Chalcolithic Wessex’, Kimmeridge House, Talbot Campus, Bournemouth University, 09.11.19
Booking is now open for our 2019 Annual Conference. The conference commences with the lecture, ‘Stonehenge Rocks’, by Prof Tim Darvill, followed by further distinguished and pre-eminent speakers on the British Neolithic/Chalcolithic. There will be relevant exhibitions, displays and book-sales to browse during refreshment breaks and the CBA Wessex AGM will take place during the lunch break. Tickets £35 for CBAW members, £45 non-members, £20 students, includes lunch and refreshments. Book online: https://tinyurl.com/yyodh8rv
For queries contact Andy Manning core of the complex set in 40ha of parkland – including a recreation of Llys Llywelyn medieval royal court excavated at Lys Rhosyr, and a pair of attached Iron Age roundhouses based on evidence from Bryn Eryr, two sites on Anglesey – but new workshops and galleries provide activity spaces for children and adults, and museum conditions for artefacts. Wales’ major archaeology displays are now here, with finds such as the Neanderthal remains from Pontnewydd Cave events@cba-wessex.org.uk -wessex.org.uk/events/
CBA West Midlands
http://cbawm.archaeologyuk.org/index .php
CBA Yorkshire
Organiser of Pathways to your Past: A workshop to launch and upskill your community history group, Selby Abbey, 21.09.19
For new and established community archaeology and history groups. The day will consist of presentations, displays and exhibitions by archaeological groups with a series of workshops. Designed to help provide advice and skills to community archaeology and history groups to set up and run community archaeology projects from start to finish. Talks on various different aspects including National Lottery Heritage Funding and Community First Yorkshire. Held at Selby Abbey, which is easily accessible and is a 5 minute walk from the station. There is parking in Selby including on South Parade (YO8 4HE) and Back Micklegate (YO8 3GH). Tickets £10-£14 https://tinyurl.com/y57gzzm3