Society for Medieval Archaeology - News
Designing with Water Conference
DESIGNING WITH WATER: NEW WORK IN GARDEN HISTORY 21 May 2011, University of Cambridge Saturday 21 May 2011 Venue: Room LG17, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ. Closing date for applications: Wednesday 11 May 2011 For the workshop programme and booking form, just click on this link… Designing with
Student Discussion List
A Discussion list for student members of the Society for Medieval Archaeology is available. Members of the Society’s Council will distribute information here about forthcoming Society events, and other events that may be of interest to student members of SMA. Subscribers to this list should be student members of the Society for Medieval Archaeology or
Special Feature
A ‘lost’ palace of the bishops of Winchester Our current special feature is a contribution from Society Member Nicholas Riall who goes in search of the ‘lost’ palace of the bishops of Winchester. To read more, click here.
John Hurst Award
The Society for Medieval Archaeology awards the first John Hurst Award to the undergraduate dissertation that makes the most original contribution to medieval archaeology (from AD400 to 1500). Download an interview with one of the Society for Medieval Archaeology’s founding members from the Society of Antiquaries of London website. The interview with John Hurst is
Retrospect and Prospect
2007 marked the fiftieth birthday of the Society for Medieval Archaeology. It was on the afternoon of Tuesday 16th April 1957 at Burlington House, Piccadilly, that Donald Harden, the newly appointed Director of the London Museum , first outlined proposals for a new ‘society for Dark Age and Medieval Studies’. The idea was a simple