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MAS Evening Lectures

Evening lectures are held on the third Thursday in every month between September and April.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT (please note, during the winter, meetings are held on Zoom - details are sent via email to members ahead of the meeting)
Time:  Doors open at 7pm, the meetings start at 7:30pm.
Further info: All welcome! You do not need to be a member to attend. Free for members, £5 for non-members. Non-members wishing to attend a Zoom meeting may do so - please Contact Us for information.

Programme: 2024-5

19th September 2024: 'Recent excavations at a multiperiod prehistoric monument at Aspull ring ditch' Wigan Archaeology Society. At Quaker Meeting House

17th October 2024: 'Romano-British Women and the Diversity of Social Identities' Charlotte Bell, University of Liverpool. At Quaker Meeting House

21st November 2024: 'Rushen Abbey: milestones in the history of Christianity in these islands' Peter Davey, Manx Heritage. On Zoom

12th December 2024*: Christmas social and quiz. On Zoom

16th January 2025: 'Scuttled: Life on the Rochdale Canal' Kelly Griffiths, Wardell-Armstrong. On Zoom

20th February 2025: 'New research by Liverpool students: Bell Beaker Ancestry in South West Scotland, UNESCO bid by Mani region, Greece and Forensics and Grave Detection' Tabitha Craig, Millie Haden and Cherene de Bruyn. At Quaker Meeting House

20th March 2025: 'Saving the North West's Last Turkish Bath' Elsa Price, Museum of Liverpool. At Quaker Meeting House

10th April 2025*: AGM and talks: 'Conservation of a Tudor Dress Hook' Daniel Proven, 'Speke Hall fieldwork' Mark Adams, 'Little Crosby Hall' and 'other summer fieldtrips' ​Roy Forshaw. At Quaker Meeting House


*note: these meetings brought forward to the second Thursday of the month to avoid Christmas and Easter holiday periods.
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​Previous years' programmes:
​21st September 2023: 'The Chester Amphitheatre Environs Research Project in Grosvenor Park' Dan Garner, Museum of London Archaeology. At Quaker Meeting House

19th October 2023: 'An illustrated talk (including some demonstration items) about local historic objects' Warren Kern. At Quaker Meeting House

16th November 2023: 'Life and death in a northern milltown: excavations at St Peter's church, Blackburn' Julie Franklin, Headland Archaeology. On Zoom

14th December 2023: Christmas social and quiz. On Zoom

18th January 2024: Current Welsh mapping project using placenames, with a case study from north east Wales Scott Lloyd and Jon Dollery RCAHMW. On Zoom

15th February 2024: 'Work in progress' talks by research students at Liverpool universities. At Quaker Meeting House

21st March 2024: 'Recent investigations at J.M. Worrall's Ordsall Lane dyeworks' Mark Adams, Headland Archaeology. At Quaker Meeting House

18th April 2024: AGM and short talks by members. At Quaker Meeting House



15th September 2022: 'Why Finding Nothing Can Sometimes Tell Us Something, But Finding Things Is Nicer: Recent (and not so Recent) Excavations on Merseyside and Cheshire'  Mark Adams. At Quaker Meeting House

20th October 2022: 'The future is Birkenhead (thanks to the past!)': Dean Paton, Big Heritage. At Quaker Meeting House

17th November 2022: 'From Small Seeds: The European legacy of a Bolton woman - Annie Barlow's work in Egyptology and elsewhere and her legacy, including items in Bolton Museum's collection': Ian Trumble, Bolton Museum. On Zoom

15th December 2022: MAS Christmas Quiz. On Zoom

19th January 2023: 'The Landscape of Neolithic Axes Project: studying a major stone source for Neolithic axe heads in North Wales': Jane Kenney, Gwynedd Archaeological Trust. On Zoom

16th February 2023: Current research by University of Liverpool students - three talks about their current research by PhD students in the Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology Department. George Downs. Autonomous itineraries: The future of archaeological tourism in Aegean Turkey, Catalonia and Merseyside. Emily Bowyer-Kazadi. Engaging with Archaeological Landscapes: Narratives from British National Parks. Alex Bowers. Rickets, Resorption and Revolution: An investigation into the relationship between vitamin D deficiency in childhood and osteoporosis in adulthood in an 18th-19th century archaeological population. At Quaker Meeting House

16th March 2023: 'The MAS/NML cemetery recording project at Childwall All Saints, Liverpool': Dave Roberts. At Quaker Meeting House

20th April 2023: Annual General Meeting and Members' evening. At Quaker Meeting House


20th January 2022: 'The Manx rosy basin: a quest for ceramic identity': Peter Davey

17th February 2022: 'Recent excavations at Rossett Roman villa': Caroline Pudney, University of Chester

17th March 2022: 'The Origins of Late Bronze Age Hilltop Enclosure sites in Western Atlantic Britain': Lorrae Campbell, University of Liverpool

2nd April 2022: Archaeology in Merseyside AIM 2022 Conference - Book Online at:
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21st April 2022: MAS AGM followed by a talk by Roy Forshaw

17th June 2021: 'Early Salt-Making in Merseyside and South Lancashire': Mark Adams, RSK

15th July 2021: 'Archaeology of Hilbre Island': Roy Forshaw, Museum of Liverpool

19th August 2021: 'Archaeology of Norton Priory': Rob Philpott

16th September 2021: Annual General Meeting
Followed by talk 'The Dock House Dig - Piermaster's Green Community Archaeology Project': Vanessa Oakden, NML

2021 Chair's Report
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MAS accounts 2020
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2021 Treasurer's report
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MAS 2020 AGM minutes
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21st October 2021: 'Mediaeval Buildings Myths – The Folklore and Archaeology of Historic Buildings': James Wright

18th November 2021: 'From Leicestershire to Liverpool: the Roman mosaic from Medbourne': Gina Muskett

16th December 2021: Christmas Social and Quiz




20th September 2020: Evening meeting to be replaced by the Bidston Hill field trip: Mark Adams

15th October 2020: 'Merseyside's Industrial Heritage - a short illustrated guide' : Maurice Handley

19th November 2020: 'Capstans, Winches and Walls - Industrial Archaeology at Princes Dock': Mark Adams

17th December 2020: AGM and Christmas Quiz

21st January 2021: ‘Decoys and Rubble - Taking another look at the wartime coast’: Chris Kolonko, Citizan

18th February 2021: ‘Recent PAS finds’: Heather Beeton, Museum of Liverpool

18th March 2021: ‘Triton Knoll’: Claire Christie, Headland Archaeology

15th April 2021: Members' evening - presentations by Gina Muskett, Howard Harris and Maurice Handley

20th May 2021:  'A Bronze and Iron Age field system near Evesham, Worcestershire': Laurence Hayes, RSK



19th September 2019: 'Violence, Ideology, and Classical Archaeology during the Early Decades of French Colonization in Algeria': Bonnie Effros

17th October 2019: 'A Post-Medieval pottery assemblage from Chapel Wharf in the heart of Salford': Sam Rowe

21st November 2019: 'The Roman Archaeology of Quay Meadow, Lancaster': Lancaster and District Heritage Group

19th December 2019: Members Evening

23rd January 2020: 'Tectonic plates – geological, cultural, and historical: recent archaeology in the northern Aegean and the Thermaic Gulf': Zosia Archibald

20th February 2020: 'Recent Fieldwork on Merseyside': Dan Garner

19th March 2020: 'The Portable Antiquities Scheme and Merseyside: Artefacts from Merseyside identified and recorded through the Portable Antiquities Scheme': Heather Beeton.

23rd April 2020: - Annual General Meeting
Followed by talk 'Atlas Street Copper Works, St. Helens and Hervey, Peek and Hervey's Ordsall Chemical Works: Recent Excavation': Mark Adams

18th April 2019 - Annual General Meeting
Followed by a talk 'Where the wild things are: hunting in the frontier region of Roman Britain': Sue Stallibrass

2019 Chair's Report
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2018 Accounts
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2018 AGM minutes
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Field Trips
For details of Field Trips see our 'Events and Field Trips' page.


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