Please note, this event will not be live-streamed.
Join us for the 2026 CBA Annual General Meeting and Beatrice de Cardi Lecture.
CBA Members and non-members are welcome to join us for the CBA AGM on Saturday 21st February 2026, followed by this year's de Cardi Lecture.
This year the AGM is being hosted by The Milner York (formerly the York Station Hotel). The venue will open from 10am.
CBA 2026 Annual General Meeting
The event will begin with the CBA's AGM. Members and non-members are welcome to attend, but only CBA members will be entitled to vote.
Alternatively, non-members can join us at 12pm once the AGM has finished.
Programme:
10:00 Venue Open for Tea and Coffee
10:20 CBA AGM
11:50 2026 Marsh Archaeology Awards – Launch
12:00 Break & Video: The CBA in 2025
12:20 Beatrice de Cardi Lecture: Anwen Cooper
13:20 Launch of 2026 Festival of Archaeology – Archaeology and Nature
13:30 Close and Thanks
de Cardi lecture
We are also delighted to announce that the annual de Cardi lecture will be delivered by Dr Anwen Cooper. Anwen leads the UKRI-funded ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory project at Oxford Archaeology. She has worked across the sector in British archaeology over the last 30 years and has an enduring research interest in how archaeological understandings of the past can offer new angles on the worlds we are creating today. The lecture will follow the AGM.
‘Rewilding’ later prehistory: Archaeological wildlife and its role in current nature recovery
Amidst burgeoning evidence for the beauty, strength, fragility and flux of our natural world, and global efforts to protect its future survival, the UKRI-funded ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory project is building positive and ecologically rich accounts of human-landscape relationships in Britain from 2500 BCE to 43 CE. Drawing on the substantial body of environmental evidence gathered for the ‘Rewilding’ project, this talk asks what wildlife was in prehistoric Britain, if and how wildlife mattered to people in the past, and why archaeological characterisations of wildlife are relevant for current attempts to restore nature.
The event will also see the launch of the Marsh Community Archaeology Awards and the official launch of the 2026 Festival of Archaeology.
Afternoon activities
There are two additional activities running after the AGM and de Cardi lecture.
A guided walk on the archaeology and history of York from CBA Executive Director, Neil Redfern will depart from the Milner York shortly after the main event is complete.
We have also arranged two tours of the Viking North exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum.
Spaces are limited for both events, and booking is essential. You will find links to these events at the bottom of this page.
If you can't join us for any of our scheduled activities, but have some time in the afternoon, please keep in mind the excellent Viking Festival York 2026 - which will have several free to access events running throughout the day.
AGM resources
You can find all of the documents relating to the AGM and the changes to our Articles of Association on the CBA website via the link below:
Please remember that only CBA members will be eligible to vote at the AGM.
