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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