Archive of the Society's Programmes of Events
The Society was set up in 1975, and has enjoyed a full programme of events each year since. The lists below are the programmes for each year that are currently available. Any reader who has copies of the programmes not listed here, or has information about them, is asked to contact any of the Society's Officers in order that a complete record may be assembled. The programmes currently unavailable are:
1975-1976, 1976-1977, 1977-1978, 1978-1979, 1979-1980, 1980-1981, 1981-1982, 1983-1984, 1986-1987, 1987-1988, 1988-1989, 1989-1990, 1990-1991
From 2007-2008 onward, each yearly programme has its own page, with a brief report of each activity. These pages are accessed by clicking the links at the bottom of this page.
Day
Date
Title
Speaker
Programme 1982-1983
Friday
19th March 1982
Vernacular architecture in Lancashire
R W Brunskill
Friday
23rd April 1982
Documentary sources and the Archaeologist
Angus Winchester
Saturday
8th 1982 May
Seminar - The processing and evaluation of finds. 2.00pm
D J Freke - Chairman
Friday
21st May 1982
Place Names - Linguistic Archaeology
John McNeal Dodgson
Friday
18th June 1982
Excursion. A walk in Longridge.
Led by J Till
Saturday
18th September 1982
Reports Meeting - 10.00am, followed at 2.00pm by The work of the York Archaeological Trust
P V Addyman
Friday
22nd October 1982
Aspects of settlement patterns in the North East
Brian Roberts
Saturday
13th November 1982
Seminar - 2.00pm. Coins
Chairman- D C A Shotter
Friday
19th November 1982
Work in South Cumbria and North Lancashire
William Rollinson
Friday
14th January 1983
Annual Dinner
Friday
18th February 1983
AGM and members' evening
Programme 1984-1985
Friday
16th March 1984
St Bees Man - did he fall or was he pushed?
Dr E Tapp
Friday
13th April 1984
Lead mining in the Hodder and Ribble valleys.
B H Lee, BA, and M E Higham, MA
Friday
18th May 1984
Recent work in Greater Manchester
Philip Mayers BA, FSA
Sunday
5th June 1984
Excursion: field trip to sites of lead mining in the Ribble and Hodder valleys
Saturday
22nd September 1984
10.00am - Reports meeting
2.00pm - Lecture (tba)
2.00pm - Lecture (tba)
Friday
19th October 1984
Anglo-saxon watermill at Tamworth
P A Rahtz, MA, FSA
Friday
16th November 1984
Roystone Grange
Richard Hodges, PhD
Saturday
24th November 1984
2.00pm - Seminar - Samian pottery
Chairman - Brian Hartley, MA, FSA
Friday
18th January 1985
Annual Dinner
Friday
22nd February 1985
AGM and members' evening
Programme 1985-1986
Friday
15th March 1985
From Palace to town, Northampton and Urban Origins
J H Williams MA, FSA, MIFA
Friday
19th April 1985
The art of Medieval tiling
Barry Johnson, Cheshire County Conservator
Friday
17th May 1985
The Vikings in the North
B J N Edwards, Lancashire County Archaeologist
Friday
14th June 1985
Field trip: Some archaeology of the early textile industry.
Saturday
28th September 1985
Reports Meeting 10.00am.
Afternoon lecture to be arranged
Afternoon lecture to be arranged
Friday
18th October 1985
Recent work
Joan J Taylor PhD, FSA
Friday
15th November 1985
Bronze Age Cairn Fields in the SW Lake District
Ian D Whyte
Friday
10th January 1986
Annual Dinner
Friday
21st February 1986
AGM
Programme 1991-1992
Friday
15th March 1991
Prehistoric habitation on thr limestone uplands of East Cumbria
Jim Cherry
Friday
19th April 1991
Discovering Ancient Egypt
Angela Thomas
Friday
17th May 1991
Recent Work in Cheshire
Adrian Tindall
Friday
7th June 1991
Evening visit to Linnishaw Mill, Walkden, by kind permission of Courtaulds Textiles plc.
Friday
5th July 1991
Evening field trip to Rimington.
Saturday
28th September 1991
Reports meeting and field trip to Lancaster area
Friday
18th October 1991
Tatton - the history and pre-history of one Cheshire township
Nicholas Higham
Friday
15th November 1991
Natives and Invaders in the British Isles, with special reference to Lancashire
Professor W T W Potts
Friday
10th January 1992
Annual Dinner
Friday
21st February 1992
AGM and members' evening
Programme 1992-1993
Friday
20th March 1992
Starr Carr in context - results of recent research in the Vale of Pickering
Tim Schadla-Hall
Friday
24th April 1992
The Englishman abroad - a medieval architect working in Spain
Paul Barker
Friday
15th May 1992
Mills in danger - our disappearing industrial archaeological heritage
Brian Blaney
Friday
5th June 1992
Evening visit to Lancaster
led by B J N Edwards
Saturday
20th/21st June 1992
Weekend visit to Shropshire and the Welsh Borders
led by E Higham
Saturday
26th September 1992
Reports meeting and field trip
Friday
16th October 1992
Aspects of place names - recent work
George Redmonds
Friday
29th November 1992
The Hasholme boat and the archaeology of an East Yorkshire landscape
Peter Halkon
Friday
15th January 1993
Annual Dinner
Friday
19th February 1993
AGM and members' evening
Programme 1993-1994
Friday
19th March 1993
The Mary Rose - an illustrated talk
H Eatough
Friday
16th April 1993
Picts in Orkney - an illustrated lecture
Dorothy O'Hanlon
Friday
21st May 1993
Roman Lunesdale
Dr D Shotter
Saturday
12th June 1993
Visit to Littleborough
Saturday
25th September 1993
Reports Meeting - Blackburn
Friday
15th October 1993
Archaeology in the Yorkshire Dales National Park
Robert White
Friday
19th November 1993
Excavations on the tramway
Jack Smith
Friday
14th January 1994
Annual Dinner
Friday
18th February 1994
AGM and members' evening
Programme 1994-1995
Saturday
26th February 1994
Study Day - at Sheffield University Laboratories
Friday
18th March 1994
Palaeo-ecology of Rivington - Anglezarke Uplands 9000-5999BP
Dr M Bain
Friday
15th April 1994
The history and archaeology of Hutton Abbey
W D Klemperer
Friday
20th May 1994
In search of the Dark Ages in central Italy
Dr J Moreland
Friday
17th June 1994
Visit to Turton Tower - guided tour and supper.
Saturday
24th September 1994
Reports meeting
Friday
21st October 1994
Cooking pots or funerary urns? Bronze Age pottery in the North West
Ann Hallam
Friday
18th November 1994
A Surprise Package! a presentation by Lancaster University Archaeological Unit
Friday
13th January 1995
Annual Dinner
Friday
17th February 1995
AGM and members' evening
Programme 1995-1996
Friday
17th March 1995
Parish Boundaries
Dr Angus Winchester
Friday
21st April 1995
Place-names and monastic charters
Dr Mary Higham
Friday
19th May 1995
The industrial archaeology of the Lune valley
Jim Price
Saturday
17th June 1995
Visit to Cheshire - including a talk about the salt industry
Stephen Penny
Saturday
16th September 1995
Visit to Bowland and Browsholme Hall
Friday
20th October 1995
Sailing the wine-dark sea - pots and trade in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
Dr Peter Day
Friday
17th November 1995
The British Isles as the centre of Early Bronze Age Europe
Dr Joan Taylor
Friday
12th January 1996
Annual Dinner
Friday
16th February 1996
AGM and members' evening
Programme 1996-1997
Friday
15th March 1996
Glass and glass-making in Roman Britain
Dr Jennifer Price
Friday
19th April 1996
Medieval woodland in North Yorkshire
Tom Gledhill
Friday
17th May 1996
An Archaeologist's ramblings
B J N Edwards
Sunday
9th June 1996
Excursion to Whixall and Bettisfield Moss, Shropshire
Friday
5th July 1996
An evening in Woodplumpton
Led by Peter Sheppard
Saturday
21st September 1996
Autumn meeting
Friday
18th October 1996
Whalley Abbey - the North-West gatehouse
Dr M B Ormerod and J S Chadwick
Friday
15th November 1996
Food in Lancashire - 1300-1600
Dr Alan Crosby
Friday
10th January 1997
Annual Dinner
Friday
21st February 1997
AGM and members' evening
Programme 1997-1998
Friday
21st March 1997
Faces from the grave - Egyptian portrait mummies in the NW museums
Pamela Scott
Friday
18th April 1997
Archaeology in Lancashire - present and future
Gill Chitty
Friday
16th May 1997
From workplace to heritage - protection of industrial monuments
David Cranston
Sunday
22nd June 1997
Excursion to Low Furness and Furness Abbey
Led by Eric and Mary Higham
Saturday
12th July 1997
Visit to Heptonstall
Led by John Chadwick
Saturday
20th September 1997
Autumn meeting
Friday
17th October 1997
Framework for our past
Adrian Olivier
Friday
21st November 1997
Walton-le-dale
Dr David Hunt
Friday
16th January 1998
Annual Dinner
Friday
20th February 1998
AGM and members' evening
Programme 1998-1999
Friday
20th March 1998
The Leeds mummy
Dr E Tapp
Friday
17th April 1998
Identifying the archaeology of the early medieval church in Gwynedd
Dr Nancy Edwards
Friday
15th May 1998
Medicines from the mud - recent investigations at the once-powerful Soutra medieval hospital
Dr Brian Moffat
Saturday
20th June 1998
Excursion to Alderley Edge
Led by W D Shannon
Friday
3rd July 1998
Evening walk and pub supper - Pendleton
Led by Eric and Mary Higham
Saturday
19th September 1998
Autumn meeting - Hoghton Tower
Friday
16th October 1998
The origins of the Celts in Britain - the rise of a myth
Professor John Collis
Friday
20th November 1998
Lancashire - a timber-framed county
Nigel Morgan
Friday
15th January 1999
Annual Dinner
Friday
19th February 1999
AGM and members' evening
Programme 1999-2000
Friday
19th March 1999
Prehistoric copper-mining in Britain
Simon Timberlake
Friday
16th April 1999
Low Wood gunpowder works - 1798-1935
Ron Mein
Friday
21st May 1999
Qasr Bshir - a 4th Century Roman fort on the desert frontier in Jordan
Tim Strickland
Sunday
13th June 1999
Excursion to South Lakes area - (am) Low Wood gunpowder works, (pm) Leighton Hall
Friday
9th July 1999
Excursion to Cockerham
Led by E John Makinson
Saturday
18th September 1999
Excursion - Denbigh and district
Led by Eric and Mary Higham
Friday
15th October 1999
Archaeology and the Bayeux tapestry
B J N Edwards
Friday
19th November 1999
Woodland place names - clearance, settlement and enclosure
George Redmonds
Friday/Saturday
28th/29th January 2000
25th Anniversary/Millenium Celebration at Alston Hall, Longridge
Friday
18th February 2000
AGM and members' evening
Programme 2000-2001
Friday
17th March 2000
The Lancaster mill race
Dr Keith Horsfield
Friday
14th April 2000
Queen Victoria's gene
Professor W T W Potts
Friday
19th May 2000
Stafford - the story of 4 castles
John Darlington
Saturday
24th June 2000
Excursion to Sefton/Croxteth
Led by W D Shannon
Friday
14th July 2000
Evening walk - Eccleston
Led by Ian and Lindsay Barrow
Saturday
16th September 2000
Excursion to Wycoller
Friday
20th October 2000
The story of Cumbria
Philip Holdsworth
Friday
17th November 2000
Landscape and Life in Upholland c1300-1600
Dr Audrey Coney
Friday
12th January 2001
Annual Dinner
Friday
16th February 2001
AGM and members' evening
Programme 2001-2002
Friday
16th March 2001
A Romano-British settlement in the lowland North-West
Dr Robert Philpott
Friday
20th April 2001
The background to the beasts
Dr Mary Higham
Friday
18th May 2001
Recent archaeological discoveries in Cheshire
Adrian Tindall
Sunday
10th June 2001
Excursion to Maryport, Ravenglass and Gosforth
Led by W and M Shannon
Friday
13th July 2001
Evening walk - Brennand valley and Slaidburn Heritage Centre.
Led by B J N Edwards
Saturday
29th September 2001
Excursion to Wakefield area - including the National Coal-mining Museum for England
Led by Eric Higham
Friday
19th October 2001
English Heritage in the North West
Henry Owen John
Friday
16th November 2001
Timber-framed churches in North West England
Dr Mike Nevell
Friday
11th January 2002
Annual Dinner
Friday
15th February 2002
AGM and members' evening
Programme 2002-2003
Friday
15th March 2002
Church and townscape in medieval Tuscany
Dr Alan Crosby
Friday
19th April 2002
Some pre-Conquest metalwork from Cumbria
B J N Edwards
Friday
17th May 2002
What the Romans have done for the North West
Dr David Shotter
Sunday
16th June 2002
Excursion to York, including the Jorvik Centre
Friday
12th July 2002
Evening walk - Brennand valley and Slaidburn Heritage Centre
Led by B J N Edwards
Saturday
21st September 2002
Excursion to Anderton Boat Lift and Norton Priory
Led by W and M Shannon
Friday
18th October 2002
Berenike - excavating in Egypt
Dr John Peter Wild
Friday
15th November 2002
Manor courts and the use of upland commons
Dr Angus Winchester
Friday
10th January 2003
Annual Dinner
Friday
21st February 2003
AGM and members' evening
Programme 2003-2004
Friday
21st March 2003
Transforming the hills - Parliamentary enclosure in NW England
Professor Ian Whyte
Friday
25th April 2003
The Preston Dock skulls discovery, theories and results of recent scientific research
Emma Heslewood
Friday
16th May 2003
Surnames, genes and genealogy
Dr George Redmonds
Sunday
22nd June 2003
Excursion to Chester
Friday
18th July 2003
Evening walk - St Patrick's Church, Heysham
Sunday
21st September 2003
Excursion to Burnley area, including a visit to B Rourke and Co Ltd (practical demonstration of wrought-iron work) and a visit to Towneley Hall
Friday
17th October 2003
The beginnings of the centre of the kingdom
Dr Mary Higham
Friday
21st November 2003
The Poulton Elk
B J N Edwards
Friday
16th January 2004
Annual Dinner
Friday
20th February 2004
AGM and members' evening
Programme 2004-2005
Friday
19th March 2004
Dacre - an early Christian monastery
Rachel Newman
Friday
16th April 2004
Finding our past - the Portable Antiquities Scheme in the NW
Nick Herepath
Friday
21st May 2004
Lancaster - a noted centre for the production of stained-glass windows
Margaret Edwards
Saturday
19th June 2004
Excursion to Skipton Castle and Bolton Abbey
Friday
16th July 2004
Evening walk
Sunday
26th September 2004
Excursion
Friday
15th October 2004
Hadrian's Wall - then and now
W D Shannon
Friday
19th November 2004
Roman Ribchester
Nigel Neil
Friday
January 2005
Annual Dinner
Friday
18th February 2005
AGM and members' evening
Programme 2005-2006
Friday
18th March 2005
Visit to Lancashire County Museum - exhibition devoted to Richard Owen - the Dinosaur Man
Sunday
10th April 2005
Visit to Manchester Museum of Science and Industry - the Bog People exhibition
Friday
15th April 2005
Roman excavations at Nantwich
David Power
Friday
20th May 2005
The Iron Age of South Lancashire and the excavations at Dutton Farm
Ron Cowell
Saturday
18th June 2005
Excursion to Shrewsbury - guided tour of the battlefield, and tour of the town
Friday
July 2005
Evening trip to Lathom
Sunday
25th September 2005
Manchester - guided tour of Victoria Baths and other sites of interest
Led by Crispin Edwards
Friday
21st October 2005
Views on castles in the Lune valley
Peter Iles
Friday
18th November 2005
The excavations at Mellor
Donald Reid
Friday
January 2006
Annual Dinner
Friday
17th February 2006
AGM and members' evening
Friday
February
AGM and members' evening
Programme 2006-2007
Friday
17th March 2006
Footprints on the prehistoric landscape
Gordon Roberts
Friday
28th April 2006
Cave Art in Britain - the shock of the Old?
Paul Bahn
Friday
19th May 2006
Portable Antiquities in the North West
Dot Bruns
Saturday
17th June 2006
Day trip to Gladstone Pottery Museum - Booking details later.
Friday
14th July 2006
Evening trip to Formby Point - a guided walk. Details to be announced later.
Led by Gordon Roberts
Saturday
23rd September 2006
Day Trip to Bank hall, Bretherton. Details to be announced later.
Friday
20th October 2006
Williamson Tunnels
Claire Moorehead
Friday
17th November 2006
Neanderthal material culture and their demise
Jennie Robinson
Friday
19th January 2007
Annual Dinner
Friday
16th February 2007
AGM and members' evening
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