Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society

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Our current programme is here. Note we have two meetings in March, neither on our usual day.

Our next meeting is at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 10th March at the Ashcroft Centre when Sarah Staniforth, head of conservation at the National trust will be talking about the challenges of conserving the huge National trust estate. This is a joint lecture with Cirencester Science and Technology Society.

Tea coffee and fruitjuices will be available at this meeting in celebration of FairTrade Fortnight.

Visitors are welcome to this meeting for £3.

The following meeting is the annual public lecture by Cotswold Archaeology, and is free to members of the public. No tickets are required, just turn up at Bingham Hall on Wednesday 31st March at 7.30 to here Tom Moore of Durham University discussing what we really know about Roman Bagendon.

Heritage Open Days 2010 will be from 9th-12th September. Information for owners.

A New Year Quiz!

In 2005 to celebrate our 50th anniversary a members quiz was held, with 50 questions and a £50 booktoken prize, which was won by Leslie Jones. We will repeat the questions over the coming year to give you a chance to catch up on the ones you could not solve nearly 5 years ago.Try it here

December 2009

We have added a copy of our policy on planning matters, written at the beginning of the century.

Look out for our Projects page, coming soon.

If you are thinking of doing some local research in Cirencester or your village do let us know. We have some ideas for Cirencester and are looking for volunteers. Contact the chairman, mentioning this site. Note we do not do family history as that is covered well by the Gloucestershire Family History Society

November 2009

History helps climate change research

Admiralty logbooks, including those of HMS Beagle, which detail weather seen by sailors, going back as far as 1760 have been digitised by the UK Colonial Registers and Royal Navy Logbooks project. This data is then being used to build pictures of changing weather patterns around the globe since the start of the industrial era. The data will have historical uses too. Do take a peek.

August 2009 From the Daily Telegraph

Read the obituary of Professor Christopher Erlington One time editor of the Gloucestershire Victoria County History and BGAS publications

August 2009

CBA website

The Council for British Archaeology (to which the society belongs) has revamped its website. There are hours of reading there. The news feeds are good too. We are of course listed in the Archaeology online section. We have copies of the journal "British Archaeology" for loan from time to time. Did you know that you can read back issues on line? The October 2008 issue has a photo of young local archaeologists in the sixties. Can you see yourself?

Museum Roundup

Cheltenham Museum Events

Corinium Museum Events

Gloucester Museum Events

Stroud Museum in the Park Events

Swindon Museum Events

Steam Museum

Information on all museums in the County.

Want to get serious about archaeology?

TORC will tell you all about courses at all levels

Page last updated 07 March, 2010