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SMA Student Colloquium – Call for Papers Now Open!

Posted On: September 6th, 2026

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for our 2026 Student Colloquium is now open. The Colloquium will be kindly hosted by the Department of Archaeology at Durham University on the 14th-15th November. The subject is “Life and Environment in the Medieval World” and we welcome papers on one of the many

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Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Prizes

Posted On: August 2nd, 2026

Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society (LAHS) awards a number of annual prizes for dissertations at Undergraduate and Post-Graduate level, on the history, archaeology and heritage of Leicestershire and Rutland, or for comparative studies in which these counties feature in a major way. There are two prizes available for Archaeology students: best Undergraduate and best Post-Graduate

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Call For Papers – Route des Normandes Association

Posted On: August 2nd, 2026

Announcing a Call for Papers for a proposed series of linked sessions at next year’s International Medieval Congress (IMC), which will take place in Leeds from the 5th-8th July 2027. The theme of these sessions is “Communities”, looking at itineraries and material culture across the Norman worlds. Proposals are invited from scholars working on the

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New SMA Monograph out now!

Posted On: July 28th, 2026

We are delighted to announce that the latest Monograph published by the Society is now available. Monograph 46, Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999. Part 2: The Fabric and the Material Culture, is the second of three volumes detailing the important excavations carried out at the site of the Austin Friary in

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SMA Conference 2026 – Booking Now Open!

Posted On: June 18th, 2026

We are delighted to announce that booking for our 2026 Annual Conference is now open. This year’s conference is hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies and Department of Archaeology, at the University of York on Saturday 19 September 2026. Book your tickets here. The event will be based in the historic Grade I/II-listed Guildhall

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Medieval Britain & Ireland Fieldwork Listings

Posted On: April 15th, 2026

Between 1957 and 2025 Medieval Britain and Ireland (MB&I) collated annual listings of fieldwork that had been undertaken on medieval sites and landscapes in the UK and Éire. These listings are now available as a download-only database via the Archaeology Data Service website here. Here you will also find Fieldwork Listings entries from 2018-2023 that

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