This page list past events in the BAA’s Annual Lecture Series back to 2009.
For many of the lectures that were recorded, a video will be shown; you can also find videos of past events on the BAA’s YouTube channel
Upcoming lectures
Our lectures run from October to May, and take place on the first Wednesday of the month, at 5pm (with tea at 4.30pm). BAA lectures are held in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
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Wednesday 6 Apr 2016
‘Recent studies of the fabric of Exeter Cathedral’
PRESENTED BY
by John Allan FSA, Consultant Archaeologist, Exeter Cathedral -
Wednesday 2 Mar 2016
‘”This house is a holy place”: Rievaulx Abbey, people and piety, c.1300-1538’
PRESENTED BY
by Dr Michael Carter, FSA, Senior Properties Historian, English Heritage -
Wednesday 3 Feb 2016
‘The Kailasa Temple at Ellora: rock-cut architecture and the realisation of buildings in the medieval period’
PRESENTED BY
by Peter Draper FSA Visiting Professor, Birkbeck College, University of London -
Wednesday 6 Jan 2016
‘Excavations at Glastonbury Abbey, 1908-79: reassessing the medieval monastery.’
PRESENTED BY
by Professor Roberta Gilchrist FSA, Research Dean, University of Reading -
Wednesday 2 Dec 2015
‘Why Does Architectural Style Change? An Exploration using Fourteenth-Century Collegiate Churches.’
PRESENTED BY
Andrew Budge, PhD Candidate, Birkbeck College, University of London -
Wednesday 4 Nov 2015
‘The Charles Bridge, Peter Parler and the First Bohemian Net Vault’
PRESENTED BY
Dr Jana Gajdosova, Lecturer, University of Cambridge -
Wednesday 7 Oct 2015
‘Southwell Minster’s Choir: A Gothic Vision of Archbishop Walter de Gray’
PRESENTED BY
by Dr Jeffrey Miller Lecturer, University of Cambridge -
Wednesday 6 May 2015
Places of Power and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: New Archaeological Perspectives from Lyminge, Kent
PRESENTED BY
Dr Gabor Thomas, School of Archaeology, Geographical and Environmental Science, University of Reading