LAMAS Lecture Programme - Oct 2011 - May 2012

All lectures are held on Tuesdays at the Museum of London, 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN, beginning at 6.30pm.  Please note: the Annual General Meeting begins at 6.15pm. 
Refreshments are available from 6.00pm (5.30pm before AGM).  Visitors are always welcome, especially from affiliated societies.

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© MoLAS)LAMAS lectures 2011

11 October 2011
The Black Death in London 1348-9: New Research
Barney Sloane, English Heritage

8 November 2011
History of the Parish Clerks’ Company
Peter Maplestone, Master of the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks

13 December 2011
Thomas Layton’s Artificial Curiosities: Oceanic Collections of an ‘Old World Type’
Glynn Davis, Museum of London, & Catherine Elliott, Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, British Museum

LAMAS lectures 2011

17 January 2012Archaeologists digging at the Paternoster site, close to St Pauls's Cathedral (© MoLAS)
Mapping Roman London: from Site Context to Town Plan
Julian Hill, Museum of London Archaeology

28 February 2012
AGM & Presidential Address: Reconstructing Nonsuch: Evidence, Elevations, and a Model
Prof Martin Biddle, Emeritus Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford

13 March 2012
Jimmy Garlick, the Mummified Man of St James Garlickhythe
Ellis Charles Pike, Hon Verger of St James Garlickhythe & Vintry Ward Beadle

17 April 2012
The Thames Tunnel: Eighth Wonder of the World?
Robert Hulse, The Brunel Museum

15 May 2012
The Walbrook: its Archaeology and History, A Water Engineer’s View
Stephen Myers, Water Engineer & Author of Walking on Water - London’s Hidden Rivers Revealed