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Archaeologist of the Year! Vote now…

Posted On: December 10th, 2015

The Society for Medieval Archaeology is pleased to say that Professor Roberta Gilchrist, a former president of the Society, has been shortlisted for Current Archaeology’s Archaeologist of the Year Award 2016. We hope that you will consider voting for Roberta and help support medieval archaeologists! Roberta Gilchrist is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading.  She

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Recent Members Excursion – Celts at the British Museum!

Posted On: November 6th, 2015

A special event for members of the SMA took place on Nov. 26th – a curator-led visit to the highly praised Celts: Art and Identity exhibition at the British Museum. Click here to read more!

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SMA ANNUAL CONFERENCE – Registration open and full programme and abstracts available

Posted On: October 21st, 2015

The forthcoming SMA Annual Conference will be held from December 4th to 6th at the University of Central Lancashire on the theme of ‘Being Medieval – Archaeology, Society and the Human Experience‘. This promises to be a very exciting conference with an engaging programme (available here) and the abstracts for the papers are now available

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Important Membership News

Posted On: October 14th, 2015

You will recently have received a letter from Maney regarding the need to complete a new Direct Debit for their SMA subscription.  This is due to the recent transfer of Maney to the Taylor & Francis publishing group, and the result of data protection requirements. Members will receive further information (and forms) shortly. PLEASE COMPLETE

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News updates from around Britain

Posted On: October 12th, 2015

Here are a series of notices that have come to the attention of the SMA recently: Internationally important Ipswich excavation archive is made publicly accessible Between 1974 and 1990 there were 36 excavations within the historic core of Ipswich.   The results of these excavations are of international importance due to the early origins of the

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Registration now open for the 2015 SMA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Posted On: September 29th, 2015

The 2015 Annual Conference of the Society for Medieval Archaeology will be held at the University of Central Lancashire from December 4th to 6th on the theme of ‘Being Medieval – Archaeology, Society and the Human Experience‘. Registration is now open for this exciting event and confirmed speakers include Professor Heinrich Härke (University of Tübingen),

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