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Live Appearances

So far this year I have given talks in Salisbury, Loughborough,  Retford and the Isle of Wight. A quiet start to the year.

This is the diary of talk/events etc for the rest of the year. No doubt it will fill up a bit and I will add more details as and when I get them.

April

Thursday 12th: Bournemouth 2.00 pm
Meet the Ancestors for the Bournemouth Literary Luncheon Club at the Mirramar Hotel

Saturday 21st: Northwich (Cheshire)
‘Stonehenge the story so far’ as part of Cheshire Archaeology Day at the Northwich Memorial Hall, CW9 5QJ
Google Cheshire Archaeology Day for more information

May

Monday 14th: Liphook (Hampshire)
Meeting the Ancestors for Liphook U3A

Friday 18th - Sunday 20th: Newcastle
Hadrian’s Wall with Mark Corney for Hilton Hotels Special Events

June

Tuesday 5th: Cambridge
Primary School teacher training day  - building Stonehenge

Wednesday 6th: Lincoln
Opening of new archaeology lab at Bishop Grosseteste  University College – plus building Stonehenge with local schools

Friday 8th – Sunday 10th: Basingstoke
The prehistoric temples of  Stonehenge and Avebury  weekend for Hilton Hotels Special  Events

Thursday 21st: Stonehenge
Summer Solstice, see you there

July

Monday 9th - Friday 13th July: Trowbridge
‘Archaeologist in Residence’ for a week of Stonehenge related activities at Larkrise School

August

Friday 3rd - Sunday 5th: Hook (Hampshire)
‘A clash of cultures? Celts and Romans in Wessex’ with Mark Corney at the Paramount Basingstoke Country Hotel.
See http://www.paramount-hotels.co.uk/special-events and look under southern England.

Saturday 11th - Sunday 12th: English Heritage Festival of History, Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire. 
Not sure if I am going to be there this year but it’s great fun.

Friday 17th - Sunday 19th: Newcastle
Hadrian’s Wall with Mark Corney for Hilton Hotels Special Events   

Friday 31st – Sunday 2nd September: Goodwood (Sussex)
The Revival meeting; the historic motorsport event of the year. Not doing anything, just wallowing in nostalgia.   

September

Thursday 20th: Abergavenny
‘Stonehenge, the story so far’ for the Abergavenny Local  Historical Society

Friday 28th – Sunday 30th: Portsmouth
Military History weekend with Jonathan Coad for Hilton Hotels Special Events

October

Monday 1st: Hampton School TBC

Friday 12th  - Sunday 14th October
Council for British Archaeology Wessex Region annual meeting this year on the Channel Islands

Saturday 27th: Colchester TBC

Tuesday 30th:  Marlow (Bucks)
Hadrian’s Wall for the Marlow Archaeological Society. 8.00pm Liston Hall, Liston Road.

November

Monday 12th: Fordingbridge (Hants)
‘Mapping the Town' (with special reference to Fordingbridge) for the Fordingbridge Society

Saturday 17th: Winchester
‘Stonehenge’ at the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeology Society annual conference at the Peter Symonds College. There is a Neolithic/Bronze Age theme and other speakers include Mike Parker-Pearson, Richard Bradely, Mike Pitts and Martin Green.

December

Wednesday 5th: Ringwood (Hants)
‘Hadrians Wall’ for the Avon Valley Archaeological Society


If you would like me to come and give a lecture to your society or organisation then please email me to discuss time, location and topic. Favourite topics at the moment are:

  • Meeting the Ancestors
  • Blood of the Vikings
  • TV archaeology
  • Stonehenge – as you have never seen it before
  • Mapping the Town

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