The British Archaeological Association holds regular monthly lectures on the first Wednesday of each month between October and May in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE.

The lectures are open to all and provide an opportunity for professionals, students and independent scholars to present research that falls within the BAA’s areas of interest.  We aim to cover both British and European topics that are susceptible to art-historical, archaeological, architectural, and historiographical investigation between the Roman period and the 19th century, but with a bias towards the medieval period.

Tea is served from 4.30 p.m. and the Chair is taken at 5.30 p.m. 

Find out more information here.

Programme :

October 2025
Elena Lichmanova
Mendicants and Margins: Storytelling Context of the Rutland Psalter

5 November 2025
Professor Eberhard Sauer
Excavations at Alchester: a Legionary Fortress and Roman to Early Medieval Town

3 December 2025
Dr Lloyd de Beer
Charles Hercules Read and the Asante Ewer

7 January 2026
David Harrison
Mapping England and Wales in the Late Middle Ages: roads, transport infrastructure and key destinations

4 February 2026
Matthew Cooper
Building for strangers: recent research on England’s medieval inns

4 March 2026
Emeritus Professor Elisabeth Lorans
The transformation of the monastic enclosure at Marmoutier (Tours, France) between the 11^th and the early 13^th centuries

1 April 2026
Dr Jack Hartnell
Title TBC

6 May 2026
Dr Alexandra Gajewski
The Papal Palace in Avignon in the light of regional architecture

Source : Medieval Art Research