Surrey Archaeological Society

To complement David Bird’s “ Reading Roman Inscriptions” workshop on 2 September, there will be a visit to the British Museum. Dirk Booms, Curator in the Department of Greece and Rome, will walk us round 2 galleries for about an hour to help us appreciate and translate the inscriptions there. He will explain the abbreviations and the different facts that can be interpreted from inscriptions in general.

Instructions and timings will be distributed closer to the time.

Charge: None. Please make a donation to the BM

Max. no. 15

This visit offers the opportunity to see two Sussex excavations in progress. In the morning David Rudling, Academic Director of the Sussex School of Archaeology, will take us around Plumpton Roman Villa, a winged corridor house, and tell us about the three years of excavations there. In the afternoon, either Rob Wallace or David Millum, Dig Directors, will guide us around Bridge Farm - a Romano British settlement - where excavations have been in progress since 2013. There will be a pub lunch between the two visits.

Surrey Local History Committee and Surrey Heritage present:

                                 Hot Off The Press:
         Digital Newspaper Archives and Local History

Saturday 7 October 2017  at Surrey History Centre 130, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6ND
 

10.45 Registration and coffee

11.15-12.00   Dr Gerry Moss, Surrey Archaeological Society    Local History from Digital Newspapers

12.00-12.30  Seth Caley, Gale Cengage Learning  The 17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspaper Collection: A New Digital Resource

A programme of summer walks around Epsom and Ewell is planned from 25th July to 29th August. The attached pdf has full details of the walks with dates and times.

Walks cost £5 per person and places are limited to 25 people per walk.

Places must be booked in advance with David Brooks at Bourne Hall Museum. Tel: 020 8394 1734 or e-mail: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk

Home Education Group

A Serjeant-at-Arms from the Tower of London visits Ewell to tell you how you become a Knight. Sent away from home at the age of 7 to the castle of a wealthy Lord, you will begin your training as a Page learning combat skills and horsemanship until you are 14. Between then and 21 you become a squire, capable of engaging in battle and if you fight bravely you may be made a Knight.

Our visitor will bring weapons for you to master and teach you how to defend and attack a castle.