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Meetings will normally be held at 8 pm in the New Room, Ely Methodist Church, Chapel Street, Ely, CB6 1AD.

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Due to COVID-19 uncertainties, meetings may be held virtually using Zoom. When necessary, You will receive a personal invitation via your society registered e-mail address.

Meeting dates 2022–2023

  • 17 October 2022  - Claire Harris
    2nd PETER HOARE MEMORIAL LECTURE. Worthington G Smith: his haunts and relics

    Further information

  • 21 November 2022  - John Talbot
    Iceni Coinage, The Art of the Iceni as Seen Through Their Coinage

    Further information

  • 16 January 2023  - Bill Franklin and Janet Fairweather
    In Search of Cratundene and Ely’s Christian Roots

  • 20 February 2023 - David Jacques
  • Recent Discoveries at Blick Mead

  • 20 March 2023  - Graham Pledger
    The survival of historic Bell frames

  • Further information

  • 15 May 2023  - Helen Fowler
    A talk from Cambridgeshire's Finds Liaison Officer. Followed by A.G.M.


    Meetings held in 2021–2022
    • 18 October 2021 Professor Nick Ashton (IMethodist Church)
      Peter Hoare memorial lecture. The climate, geography and early human settlement of Britain

      The YouTube reccording
       
    • 15 November 2021 Caroline Swan (Virtual)
      St. Patrick’s Chapel and the rock-cut tombs in Heysham Lancashire

      The YouTube reccording
       
    • 17 January 2022  Alasdair Phillips
      Columba - political shenanigans, coracles and Celtic Christianity - using the latest archaeological and historical resources.

      Further information
       
    • 21 February 2022 David Ingham
      Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon activity in Soham, a Roman roadside settlement at Fenstanton, and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Cambridge: 3 recent excavations by Albion Archaeology

      Further information
       
    • 21 March 2022 Tom Phillips
      Further down the road - an update on the NW Ely excavations'
       
    • 16 May 2022 AGM &
      500 Years of Ely Tokens Gary Oddie

      Further information