Name: This is Archaeology: The CBA at 80 - Reflecting on our past and our role today.
Start: 2024-01-25T19:00:00
End: 2024-01-25T20:00:00
Location: Online event

The CBA’s 'This is Archaeology' online lecture series will bring you a range of speakers from across archaeology and heritage. The lectures will be exploring a wide range of themes and ideas around the question, what is archaeology?

Speakers will draw on their own experiences, a range of sites, excavations, techniques, scientific approaches, and museum practice to bring you the latest in archaeological thinking and research.

Collectively the lecture series will sit alongside existing CBA activity such as the Festival of Archaeology and the Archaeological Achievement Awards and contribute to a wider debate on the very nature of archaeology and how we can draw in new audiences and perceptions.

Find out about other lectures in the series here.

This is Archaeology: The CBA at 80 - Reflecting on our past and our role today.

ONLINE - Thursday 25th January 2024 at 7 pm

The past 80 years have seen considerable shifts in archaeology, heritage, and the management of the Historic Environment. Archaeology and the concept of heritage have grown and evolved, commercial archaeology has blossomed, and community archaeology has benefitted from substantial resources from the National Lottery. The internet and digital platforms now offer incredible reach and scope to further reimagine how we engage people and participants.

To mark the CBA’s 80^th Anniversary Year our Executive Director Neil Redfern, will kick off our ‘This is Archaeology Lecture’ series for 2024 with a talk reflecting on our past, exploring the role of the CBA and grassroots archaeology today.

Minutes of the 1st meeting 1944.jpg — The agenda for the first meeting of the Council for British Archaeology in February 1944.

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