Events

The Royal Archaeological Institute holds a variety of events each year, including a monthly lecture programme from October to May and three Meetings.

  • Lectures are given by distinguished participants in the Institute's areas of interest. Most lectures are recorded and made available on our website and YouTube channel.
  • Three Meetings (specialist site visits and tours) are organised each year. The Autumn, Spring and Summer Meetings take place in different parts of Britain and continental Europe.
  • Occasional Conferences are hosted in a new British location each year and focus on particular periods and regions of Britain or Ireland. These are often organised in conjunction with local archaeology societies.

Students wishing to attend any of these events may be eligible for a Cheney Bursary.

Upcoming events

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Footmarks. An archaeology of movement

Can we ever know what it was like to move in the past; to understand its meanings and complexities?

Dr Jim Leary
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
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Life, death and worship at HM Tower of London

The Tower of London is one of the most important and sensitive historic sites in the world.

Alfred Hawkins
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
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Archaeology in a nature and climate crisis

We are all aware that we are in the midst of a global nature and climate crisis, and discussions of the

Dr Hannah Fluck
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
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The Justinianic Plague in England: archaeological contexts and consequences

The ‘First Pandemic’, an outbreak of bubonic plague which struck Constantinople in the late spring of AD 542, was relatively well recorded by some contemporary writers.

Professor John Hines
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
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Iron Age and Roman Silchester: 50 years of research in perspective

Once thought to be a worked-out site following the Society of Antiquaries’ excavations, 1890 – 1909, excavations at Silchester (Calleva Atrebatu

Professor Michael Fulford
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
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Life (and death) on the edge? Regionality, connectivity and networks in fifth- and sixth-century Cambridgeshire

For archaeologists working on the wealth of material culture that emerges from early medieval (5th- and 6th-century) cemeteries of southern and

Dr Katie Haworth
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
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Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting will begin at 16.45 followed by the President's lecture at 17.00. Tea will be served from 16.15.

Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
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Stone heads in the Roman military zone and what they tell us about people

The conundrum of how one can tell the date of a carved stone head is one I had to wrestle with when preparing the Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani

Lindsay Allason-Jones
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE