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Medieval boardgames and trivia at the SMA Student Conference!

Posted On: July 21st, 2025

Our annual Student Conference is approaching fast! For those making the trip down to Exeter to join us, we’d like to invite you to a night of boardgames and trivia with a medieval flavour. We will be at St. Nicholas Priory from 5-8pm on Wednesday July 30th with games and refreshments, so why not drop

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SMA Conference 2025 Programme of Talks

Posted On: June 20th, 2025

As the date of this year’s conference approaches, we thought we’d give you a little taster of the fascinating line-up of talks planned. This year’s programme spans continents and methodologies—from Swahili stone towns to Viking-Age trade networks, urban ecologies, castlescapes, and ecclesiastical memory. We bring together an international community of scholars to explore how medieval

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SMA Student Colloquium – Registration Now Open!

Posted On: June 13th, 2025

We are pleased to announce that the SMA conference 2025 is now open for registration! The conference will be hosted at the University of Exeter, Digital Humanities Lab, from Thursday 31st July to Saturday 2nd August 2025. The event is hybrid so you are also welcome to join us online. Please use this form to

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Spring 2025 Newsletter is here!

Posted On: May 15th, 2025

The Spring 2025 issue of the Medieval Archaeology Newsletter should be hitting members’ doormats shortly. Issue 73 contents include: Details of the upcoming Student Colloquium and the SMA Annual Conference A research project studying medieval wetland communities in Vátyon, Hungary A spotlight on the projects that have received recent Society grants and awards A tribute

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SMA Annual Conference 2025 – booking now open!

Posted On: May 14th, 2025

We are delighted to announce that registration for the SMA Annual Conference 2025 is now open! This year’s conference will take place at the Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester on the 13th and 14th September 2025, with a keynote lecture on the evening of Friday 12th September, held at Leicester Cathedral. The theme for

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The Jarrow Lecture 2025

Posted On: May 13th, 2025

We’d like to draw your attention to the forthcoming Jarrow Lecture for 2025: “What has Bede to do with the Franks casket?: The wider context”. It will be delivered by Professor Leslie Webster, former Senior Curator and Head of Department at the British Museum from 1964-2007. The talk is free to attend at will take

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