The British Archaeological Association holds regular monthly lectures on the first Wednesday of each month between October and May in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE.

The lectures are open to all and provide an opportunity for professionals, students and independent scholars to present research that falls within the BAA’s areas of interest.  We aim to cover both British and European topics that are susceptible to art-historical, archaeological, architectural, and historiographical investigation between the Roman period and the 19th century, but with a bias towards the medieval period.

Tea is served from 4.30 p.m. and the Chair is taken at 5.00 p.m. 

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Lecture series programme:

6 November 2024

Dr Niamh Bhalla, ‘Newman University Church, Dublin: Architectural revivalism in the British Isles and the authority of form’

4 December 2024

Dr Michalis Olympios, ‘CoNUNdrum: Gleanings from 800 square metres of Salvage Excavation at the Cistercian Nunnery of St Theodore in Nicosia, Cyprus’

6 January 2025

Dr Nicola Coldstream, ‘Crowd-funding in the Architectural Patronage of Late Medieval English Merchants’

5 February 2025

Dr Katharine Harrison, ‘Crafting St Cuthbert: Narrative in the St Cuthbert Window, York Minster’

5 March 2025

Dr Alfred Hiatt, ‘The Antonine Itinerary and the Invention of Roman Britain’

2 April 2025

Professor Joanna Olchawa, ‘The Püsterich of Sondershausen: Explosive Bronze Figures between Art and Science’

7 May 2025

Dr Jackie Hall, ‘The Lost Cloister of Southwark Priory’