Past Lectures

Past HADAS Lectures

Note: In recent years the content of each lecture has been written up in Newsletter issued a month or two after the date of the lecture. These are to be found under Past Newsletters in the Archive section.

———- 2024 ———-		V0.10
Date	Topic	Speaker
12^th November	The Battle of Barnet 1471 – Where is the battlefield? New thoughts, research and surveys	Peter Masters
8^th October	Beacons of the Past Hillforts Project	Dr Wendy Morrison
11^th June	Clay Pipes	Jacqui Pearce
14^th May	London’s Roman Tools	Owen Humphreys
9^th April	Traders, Bargees, Ferrymen and a Seagull; Life and Work in Roman Pisa	Ian Jones
12^th March	The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest AD9: The massacre of a Roman army	Robin Densem
13^th February	A Life in Sherds	Jacqui Pearce

———- 2023 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
14^th November	Mapping Verulamium	Kris Lockyear
10^th October	Elsyng Palace (Enfield) – A Digger’s View	Melvyn Dresner
12^th September	The Battle of Barnet Survey and Project	Mike Noronha (Barnet Museum)
9^th May	‘Hopscotch’ in High Barnet: A HADAS Dig	Bill Bass
11^th April	The Thames: Its Myths and Mysteries	Robert Stephenson
14^th March	A Career in Ruins	Robin Densem
14^th February	Bombed Churches of the City of London	Signe Hoffos
10^th January	History Underfoot – Britain’s Industrial Heritage in Barnet Streets	David Willoughby

———- 2022 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
8^th November	Enfield Palace	Ian Jones
11^th October	Tree-ring dating and what it tells us about the old Barnet shop	Dr Martin Bridge (UCL)
10^th May	The Folklore and Archaeology of Historic Buildings	James Wright
12^th April	London in the Ice Age: changing environments and human activity	Prof. Martin Bates (University of Wales Trinity St. David)
8^th March	Monarchs, Courtiers, Technocrats and Kitchen Boys; Bring Elsyng Palace to Life	Dr Martin Dearne (EAS)
8^th February	The Dorothy Newbury Memorial Lecture: The Consul’s China: Regency Period finds from America Square, London	Jacqui Pearce (MOLA)
11^th January	The Mary Rose	Alan Turton

———- 2021 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
9^th November	The Gask Ridge – recent work at Rome’s Northernmost frontier	Dr Birgitta Hoffman
12^th October	Looe: A Story of sand, sea and sardines	Vicki Baldwin
11^th May	Against all the odds: a surviving medieval building in Barnet High Street	Lee Prosser
13^th April	Lost City Churches	Signe Hoffos
9^th March	The Thames Tideway Tunnel – An Archaeological Presentation	Sarah Linney & Jack Russell
9^th February	The Dorothy Newbury Memorial Lecture: The Newport Ship: Its Construction Based on Ongoing Research	Bob Evans

———- 2020 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
10^th November	London’s Roman and Medieval Wall	Dr Jane Sidell
13^th October	From Medieval Houses to Community Archaeology: Excavations at Eastcote House Gardens, 2012-17	Les Capon
10th March	Layers of London	Adam Corsini
11th February	The Dorothy Newbury Memorial Lecture: Prehistory in London – some Problems, Progress and Potential	Jon Cotton

———- 2019———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
12th November	Shene and Syon: a royal and monastic landscape revealed	Bob Cowie
8th October	Andersons and Ack Ack: the 20th Century Conflict Archaeology of London	Andrew Brockman
14th May	50 years of recording London’s Industrial Heritage	Professor David Perrett
9th April	The CITiZAN Project	Gustav Milne
12th March	Lost and Found: The Rediscovery of Roman London	John Clark
12th February	Dorothy Newbury Memorial Lecture: Prehistory in London – some Problems, Progress and Potential	Jon Cotton

———- 2018 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
13th November	The Rose – Shakespeare’s Secret Playhouse	A film made by Suzanne Marie Taylor, Anthony Lewis and Siegffried Loew-Walker
9th October	Motor Launch M.L. 286-The Not So Silent WWI Movy Hulked at Isleworth Ait	Suzanne Taylor
8th May	The archaeology of WW1	Mark Smith
10th April	The Greater London Historical Environment Record	Stuart Cakebread
13th March	Roman London’s First Voices: Roman writing-tablets from Bloomberg, London	Dr Roger Tomlin
13th February	Protecting the Roman Empire: understanding fortlets and frontiers	Dr Matthew Symonds
9th January	The Anglo-Saxon princely burial at Prittlewell, Essex	Professor Christopher Scull

———- 2017 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
14th November	The Battle of Barnet Project	Sam Wilson
10th October	The Curtain Playhouse excavations	Heather Knight MOLA
9^th May	The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels	Hazel Forsyth
11^th April	Where Moses stood	Robert Feather
14^th March	Bugging the Nazis the WW2: Trent Park’s Secret History	Dr Helen Fry
14^th February	London ceramics at the time of the Great Fire	Jacqui Pearce
10^th January	My Uncle, the Battle of Britain VC	James Nicolson

———- 2016 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
8^th November	From Londinium to Lundenburgh – the development of Anglo-Saxon London	Lyn Blackmore
11^th October	Women in Medieval London	Prof Caroline Barron
10^th May	Hadrian’s Wall: life on Rome’s northern frontier	Matt Symonds
12^th April	In the lift to the beach: a visit to the Lundenwic waterfront	Douglas Killock
8^th March	Crossrail Archaeological Project	Jay Carver
9^th February	Medieval Middlesex- the archaeological remains	Adam Corsini
12^th January	The Royal Palaces of Enfield	Ian Jones

———- 2015 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
10^th November	History of the RNLI	Keith Cunningham
13^th October	Scientific methods in archaeology	Dr Caroline Cartwright
12^th May	The Knights Templar and their London Connections	Robert Stephenson
14^th April	The former Inglis Barracks Mill Hill: a small dot on a very large landscape	Ian Cipin (PCA)
10^th February	An assorted history of Singapore: featuring the Mill Hill connections and the Five Foot Way	Rob Kayne
13^th January	Late Roman fortifications in northern France and their social implications	James Bromwich

———- 2014 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
11^th November	A Hamlet in Hendon – the Church Terrace site from the Mesolithic to the 21^st Century	Jacqui Pearce (MOLA)
14^th October	Stepping into Britain: The early human occupation of northern Europe.	Nick Ashton (British Museum)
13^th May	The Bishop’s Hunting Park in Highgate	Malcolm Stokes (HADAS member)
8^th April	House Mill and its restoration	Brian James-Strong & Beverley Charters
11^th March	The Sandridge Coin Hoard	David Thorold
11^th February	The Prittlewell Anglo-Saxon burial	Ian Blair (MOLA)
14^th January	The Naval Graveyards of Greenwich	Malcolm Godfrey

———- 2013 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
12^th November	Lions on Kunulua – excavations of Early Bronze and Iron Age periods at Tell Tayinat, Hatay, Turkey	Dr Fiona Haughey
8^th October	Brunel’s tunnel under the Thames	Robert Hulse
14^th May	10,000 years of history beneath your feet: the Bankside foreshore	Dr Fiona Haughey
9^th April	Nautical Archaeology – past, present and future	Eliott Wragg (replacement)
12^th March	The Railway Heritage Trust	Andy Savage
12^th February	From Logboat to Warrior: The evolution of the wooden ship	Eliott Wragg
8^th January	The Reign of Akhenaten	Lucia Gahlin

———- 2012 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
13^th November	Archaeological discoveries in Southwark	Peter Moore
9^th October	The life and legacy of George Peabody	Christine Wagg
8^th May	Bumps, Bombs and Birds: the history and archaeology of RSPB reserves	Robin Standring
10^th April	Conservation Techniques in Stone Masonry	Stephen Critchley
13^th March	It’s all in the bones	Jelena Bekvalac
21^st February	The Medieval Cellars of Winchelsea	Richard Comotto
10^th January	The Merchant Taylors’ Great Feast 1607	Ann Saunders

———- 2011 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
8th November	Thames Discovery Programme	Nathalie Cohen
11th October	Silchester: the revelation of an Iron Age and Roman city	Dr John Creighton
10th May	The Markfield Beam Engine	Ken Brereton
12th April	Bomb damage in London and Middlesex	Dr Robin Woolven
8th March	The archaeology of Baldock	Keith J Fitzpatrick-Matthews
8th February	The Roman Wooden Water Pump – an ingenious machine	Dr Richard Stein
11th January	Science as a tool to help understand London’s archaeology	Jane Siddel

———- 2010 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
9th November	Archaeology and the Olympics	David Divers
12th October	Behind the scenes on Time Team	Raksha Dave
11^th May	Graeco-Roman Period Funerary Practices in Egypt	John J Johnson
13^th April	The Great Western Railway comes to the Thames Valley	John Chapman
9^th March	The History of RAF Bentley Priory	Erica Ferguson
9^th February	The Trendles Project	William Cumber
12^th January	The Archaeology of Anglo-Jewry in London 1066-1290 and 1656-1850	Ken Marks

———- 2009 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
10^th November	Bricks and Skeletons: St John the Evangelist 1632 Brick Church Ruin, Stanmore	Dr Freddie Hicks
13^th October	Excavations at St Martin in the Fields	Alison Telfer
12^th May	The Guildhall Roman Amphitheatre	Francis Grew
14^th April	An album of treasures	Ann Saunders
10^th March	The Royal Gunpowder Mills	Richard Thomas
10^th February	The building of the Underground	Tony Earle
13^th January	An exploration of the Western Desert of Egypt	Nicole Douek

———- 2008 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
11^th November	Bletchley Park: Enigma – how cracking the enemy codes led to the world’s first computer	Hugh Davies
14^th October	Excavations at Prescot Street – E1	Chaz Morse – Project Officer, L-P Archaeology
13^th May	Finds from Roman London	Angela Wardle – MoLAS Finds Specialist
8^th April	Clifton Rocks Railway	Peter Davey – Bristol Tram Photograph Collection
11^th March	The work of the Churches Conservation Trust	Chloe Cockerill – Regional Development Manager
12^th February	The archaeology of Dorset – a time-torn landscape	Christopher Sparey-Green BA MIFA
8^th January	The work of a Finds Liaison Officer	Kate Sutton – MoL

———- 2007 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
13^th November	Mata Hari’s glass eye and other tales: a history of archaeology and aerial photography	Martyn Barber – English Heritage Aerial Survey
9^th October	Thomas Telford (1757-1834) 250^th Anniversary lecture	Denis Smith – lecturer in Industrial Archaeology
8^th May	Trams of North West London	David Berguer – Friern Barnet & District Local History Society Chairman and curatorial volunteer at the London Transport Museum
10^th April	In the footsteps of the famous in High Barnet	Paul Baker – City of London guide
13^th March	The London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS) in the early days	Eileen Bowlt – LAMAS Chairman
13^th February	The end of Roman Britain – what ended, when & how?	Dr Andrew Gardner – lecturer in the archaeology of the Roman Empire, Institute of Archaeology UCL
9^th January	British Post Box design & use – the first 150 years	Stephen Knight – Curator of the Colne Valley Postal Museum, Essex

———- 2006 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
14^th November	South Mimms Castle – its history	Brian Warren – Hon Archivist, Potters Bar & District Historical Society
10^th October	The Queen of Sheba	Nadia Durrani – Assistant Editor, Current Archaeology
9^th May	Kingsbury Old Church	Andy Agate
11^th April	Maintaining order, fighting chaos: evidence for Egyptian warfare in the Petrie Museum	Kathryn Piquette – Institute of Archaeology UCL
14^th March	Reinventing the Middle Ages: the Museum of London’s new Medieval London Gallery	Meriel Jeater – Assistant Curator, Dept. of Early London History and Collections MoL
14^th February	The archaeology of Buddhism in Eastern India	Dr Robert Harding – Institute of Archaeology UCL
10^th January	Conservation & Archaeology	Jon Finney – London Borough of Barnet

———- 2005 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
8th November	The photography of small archaeological finds	Edwin Baker – Formally a photographer with the British Museum & MoLAS
11^th October	Palaeolithic Art: Soft curves & fuller figures – images of women in the art of the Old Stone Age	Jill Cook – British Museum
10^th May	The Road to Rome — in the steps of a Medieval Pilgrim	Mark Hassell
12th April	Sutton Hoo and the Horse Burial	Angela Evans
8th March	The Chalk Mines of Pinner	Ken Kirkman — Pinner Local History Society
8th February	The Silk Road	Dr. Susan Whitfield
11th January	Colchester – A follow up to our last summer visit	Kate Orr

———- 2004 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
9th November	Durolevum	Paul Wilkinson
12th October	Egyptology	Lucia Gahlin
11th May	Roman Roads	Harvey Sheldon
13th April	Hendon – Fields and Factories	Hugh Petrie
9th March	An urban Roman Site in Colchester	Ben Holloway
10th February	Churchyards of Greater London: Decay and Resurrection	Dr Roger Bowdler
12^th January	The Portable Antiquities Scheme	Nicole Weller

———- 2003 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
9th November	Roman Silchester	Professor Mike Fulford
14th October	250 years of the British Museum	Dr Marjorie Cayhill
13th May	Roman Southwark	Harvey Sheldon
8th April	The Villa of Tiberius Claudius Severus (At Piddington, Northants,): A peep into the past	Roy Friendship-Taylor
11th March	The Mackerye Burials	Simon West – St Albans Museum Service
11th February	Kitchen crocks to Sunday best — ceramics in the home form Henry VIII to Victoria	Jacqui Pearce – Museum of London
14th January	The archaeology and anthropology of Australian rock art	Professor Robert Layton – Durham University

———- 2002 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
12th November	The Ups and Downs of Life in the British Palaeolithic.	Simon Parfitt
8th October	St Paul’s Cathedral Our Marble Heritage	Dr Ann Saunders
14th May	A Roman Temple in Greenwich Park?	Harvey Sheldon
9th April	The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain	Neil Faulkner – Institute of Archaeology
12th March	Great Lord Novgorod – Digging in a Russian Medieval City	Clive Orton – Institute of Archaeology
12th February	Life in Roman London	Francis Grew – Museum of London

———- 2001 ———-
Date	Topic	Speaker
13th November	Ancient Saltmines in Sound-of-Music Land: Iron Age Archaeology on the Durrnberg, near Salzburg.	Professor Vincent Megaw – Flinders University, South Australia
8th May	Waltham Abbey Gunpowder Mills	Norman Paul
10th April	Spitalfields Excavation	Chris Thomas
13th February	Aspects of Roman Tunisia	Dr Ben Lazreg
9^th January	Sharing the Time Team’s Visit to his Castle in Towcester	Derek Batten
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