The Society arranges a programme of excursions and lectures in Gloucester and Bristol
This list is updated as and when details of forthcoming events are available. However, until then details of immediate past events are displayed as an indication of our activities.
The Committee for Archaeology in Gloucestershire arranges an Annual Symposium
Annual General Meeting on Saturday 2 April 2011 at the Apostle Room, Clifton Cathedral, Bristol
All meetings will be held in the Apostle Room in the basement of Clifton Cathedral, Pembroke Road, Clifton, at 7.45 pm. £1 charge per visitor (full-time students free). R H Jones is the Hon. Secretary for Bristol Tel: 0117 9830719 roberthjones@blueyonder.co.uk
Monday 27th September, 2010
Archaeology in Lincoln; changing perspectives - Mick Jones, City Archaeologist, Lincoln
Dr. Jones will give an introduction to the whole gamut of Lincoln’s archaeology, from prehistoric to modern, but concentrating particularly on Roman, Anglo-Saxon (including Viking) and medieval.
Monday 25th October, 2010
Making the worst of a good job? A new look at the construction of the Floating Harbour, 1804-09 - Peter Malpass, Professor of Housing and Urban Studies at UWE
The lecture will start from the position that the design of the Floating Harbour was a technically elegant solution to the engineering challenge of port improvement in Bristol, albeit that it was a year late and nearly 100% over budget. The lecture will look briefly at the process of constructing the Harbour, and the ways in which the design was changed in the course of that process. Overall responsibility lay with the Bristol Dock Company, which rapidly acquired a lasting and poisonous reputation for incompetence and mismanagement. However, it will be argued that the Company was actually making the best of a difficult situation.
Monday 22nd November, 2010
Wings over Filton - Chris Bigg
This lecture will chart the history of Bristol aircraft from 1910. It will be concentrating on the first fifty years when it traded under the Bristol name. The lecturer worked in the aviation industry, having been a former aircraft manufacturing engineer for over forty years.
Monday 24th January 2011
Catholic Emancipation and Bristol, 1828/29 - John R. Stevens MA (Cantab)
When the Duke of Wellington announced in January 1829 that his government would bring forward a bill to grant equal political and civic rights to Roman Catholics, he unleashed the greatest political storm for a generation. This talk explores the impact of the Catholic Emancipation crisis on Churchmen and Dissenters, Whigs and Tories in the already bitterly divided city of Bristol.
Monday 28th February 2011
Clifton Hill House: a Palladian Villa in Bristol and its restoration since 1988 – Annie Burnside, O.M., L.Ès.L, D.E.S., C.A.P.E.S., M.A., Consul Honoraire de France à Bristol
Clifton Hill House was built between 1746 and 1750 as a most imposing semi-rural mansion of Palladian inspiration for Paul Fisher, a highly successful linen draper, a very wealthy merchant and ship-owner who participated in the slave trade of the time. In 1851, Clifton Hill House was bought by Dr. John Addington Symonds, a well-known Bristol physician who was famous not only for his medical proficiency but also for his gift at entertaining the literary and artistic elite of his time. When Dr. Symonds died in 1871, the house passed to his son, John Addington Symonds, the poet, historian, literary and art critic who was a leading participant in the literary culture of his time. Symonds was an early enthusiast of Whitman and a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James and Edward Lear. We know that The Owl and the Pussy Cat was written for Symonds’s eldest daughter, Janet. In 1909, Clifton Hill House was opened as a “Women’s Hostel”, accommodating 15 young ladies. It is now a popular mixed hall of residence, housing a lively community of some 230 students from the University of Bristol.
Monday 28th March, 2011
The Great Western Railway - Steven Brindle, English Heritage
All meetings will take place at Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester at 7.30pm unless otherwise indicated. £1 charged per visitor per meeting. Miss Angela Newcombe is the Hon. Secretary for Gloucestershire Tel: 01452 859308 Email: newcombe@warrentwo.fsnet.co.uk
Wednesday 20th October 2010 at 2.30pm in the Laud Room, Gloucester Cathedral
Medieval Wall Paintings in Gloucestershire Churches – Dr Steven Blake
A discussion about medieval wall paintings using mainly Gloucestershire examples
Wednesday 17th November 2010
County and Nation: Modern Gloucestershire Lives in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) - Mark Curthoys, Research Editor Oxford DNB and Member of the faculty of History, University of Oxford
A look at some of the Gloucestershire people who feature in the Oxford DNB
Wednesday 19th January 2011
Medieval Pilgrimages: Diocese of Worcester – Rev Brian Torode
In the medieval period the diocese of Worcester included Gloucestershire and this talk will look at pilgrimages in this area
Wednesday 16th February 2011
Hospitals in Gloucester from 16th to 20th centuries – Miss F Stoor
Tracing the variety of health care provided for Gloucestershire folk in various institutions over the centuries
Wednesday 16th March 2011
Excavations on the route of the Wormington to Sapperton Pipeline – Chiz Haward, Senior Project Officer, Cotswold Archaeology
An examination of the results of the archaeological work performed in conjunction with the laying of the gas pipeline.
UK Residential Meeting 13 - 17 September 2010, Cornwall
Our British residential trip will explore some of the archaeology and history of western Cornwall. We will be looking at sites dating from the Neolithic to the 19th century - e.g. standing stones, houses, churches, gardens and industrial sites (including a brewery!). This is fully booked.
The President’s Autumn Meeting 2010
Date and place to be arranged
Details will be sent out when they have been finalised, but if you require more information now please contact the Hon. Secretary, John Loosley
Spring Meeting 2011
Deerhurst and Tewkesbury. More details in the spring newsletter
Overseas Meeting 2011
No meeting has yet been arranged
UK Residential Meeting 2011
Probably to North Wales. More details in the spring newsletter
The President’s Autumn Meeting 2011
Gloucester
Details will be sent out when they have been finalised, but if you require more information now please contact the Hon. Secretary, John Loosley