The Sussex School of Archaeology and History
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Welcome to our events for
2024 / 2025
Saturday 16th November 2024
"Pots, Coins, Artefacts & Archives: Celebrating the Life of Dr Malcolm Lyne"
King's Church, Lewes
and online
Dr Malcolm Lyne (1943-2023) was an exceptional scholar who made many major contributions to the archaeology of South-East England. Although he was foremost a Late Iron Age and Roman pottery expert, his research tasks also included researching and reporting work regarding coins and ‘small finds’, and the writing up of two old Sussex excavations undertaken by others (ie The Excavations at Pevensey Castle 1936-1964, and those at Lewes Priory). Malcolm, who was a prolific publisher, will be much missed. We will be hosting, in association with the Council for British Archaeology South-East, a Memorial Conference for Malcolm at Kings Church, Lewes, on Saturday 16th November 2024. Please see links below for the Eventbrite booking, programme and details of speakers and topics.
Saturday 22nd March 2025, 10am - 4pm
"Thames Mudlarking, Searching for London's Lost Treasures"
King's Church, Lewes
Run in association with the Society of Thames Mudlarks, this event will 'showcase' the extraordinary range of historical finds (prehistoric to modern) recovered from the Thames foreshore. There will be 20 mudlark exhibitors displaying their finds, and a repeated lecture will explain Mudlarks do and find. This event will be of great interest to people of all ages who are interested in archaeology and/or history. No need to come all day, drop in for a couple of hours, see the exhibitions and view the recorded lecture
Saturday 11th October 2025
"Living in Victorian Sussex"
A conference organised by the Sussex School of Archaeology & History
Kings Church Hall, Lewes
10am - 5.15pm
Join us in-person or online
About our courses and events
During the Covid pandemic and lockdown restrictions, we developed new online offerings to add to our previous ones, such as our popular face-to-face annual Sussex Archaeology Symposium which remains the main county-wide event each year for the presentation and public discussion of recent archaeological research in Sussex. We also decided to expand our remit to cover aspects of History, especially the Local History of Sussex and the South-East - hence our new expanded name of The Sussex School of Archaeology and History (SSA&H) - and our new annual history conference at Lewes in October. Our reasons for such developments are firstly the widespread public appreciation of the likes of Zoom Online Technology, and secondly the gaps in our region regarding the provision of local lectures, courses, and conferences for those interested in archaeology and/or local history. Our two main annual conferences are currently held at Kings Church Lewes (archaeology in March; history in October). These are now available both face-to-face and online by zoom. However, attending in person at Lewes has the advantage of meeting speakers, other networking, and being able to view stands and bookstalls run by various organisations in the region.
As in 2023, the November we are again organising a conference at Kings Church in association with the Council for British Archaeology South-East. This event will be a Memorial Conference in memory of the life, work and research interests of Dr. Malcolm Lyne who sadly died last November.
We are currently preparing our 2025 programme of online lectures, as well as our conferences on 22nd March and 11th October. We are also hoping to offer a Study Tour to Crete in September 2025. The lectures will now include those previously run by the University of Sussex Archaeological Society (USAS) which has been taken over by the Sussex School of Archaeology and History.
For details of our lectures, courses and events, including the proposed tour to Crete, please keep an eye on this website or email admin@sussexarchaeology.co.uk or join our Facebook Group.
Dr David Rudling, FSA, MCIfA, Academic Director
Academic Director, The Sussex School of Archaeology and History