This listing covers lectures, day schools, short courses and tours over the next few months. TORC will be providing a searchable database of all archaeology courses in the UK (from A-level to professional) in the near future.
TORC can help with any information you require regarding archaeology courses in the UK. Please see the contact page for further details.
Sir John Leman High School
WEEKLY: introduction to medieval castles (26.4.04-28.6.04). Details from Robert Peck, Beccles Adult Education Centre, Sir John Leman High School, Ringsfield Road, Beccles, Suffolk, tel 01502 712450.
Bournemouth University
LECTURES: reports from the front: recent developments in battlefield archaeology (22.1.04), the Down Farm prehistoric landscape (5.2.04). Details from Bournemouth University Archaeology and Heritage Society, Robert Hill (secretary), email bobhill22@hotmail.com
University of Bradford
DAY SCHOOLS: medieval hospitals (29.1.04). Details from Short Course Unit, School of Lifelong Education and Development, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, tel 01274 233216, email scu@bradford.ac.uk, web www.bradford.ac.uk/sled/
Braintree Community Centre
WEEKLY: archaeological draughtsmanship (26.2.04-17.6.04). Details from North Essex Adult Community College, tel 01376 516533.
University of Sussex
WEEKLY: drawing archaeological finds (7.1.04-10.3.04), the archaeology of buildings (8.1.04-25.3.04), landscape archaeology (12.1.04-15.3.04), the archaeology of churches (14.1.04-17.3.04), the archaeology of hunter-gatherers (31.1.04-6.3.04); LINKED DAY SCHOOLS: introduction to field archaeology (8.5.04-19.6.04); FIELD TRIPS: church archaeology (22.5.04-3.7.04); SHORT COURSE: ancient crafts and technologies (12.7.04-16.7.04). Details from Centre for Continuing Education, The Sussex Institute, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, tel 01273 678040, email cce@sussex.ac.uk, web www.sussex.ac.uk/cce
University of Cambridge
RESIDENTIAL: medieval pottery (16.1.04-18.1.04), early medieval Scotland and the kingdom of the Picts (12.3.04-14.3.04), the history of English furniture (12.3.04-14.3.04), images of identity and resistance in art and archaeology (2.4.04-4.4.04), introduction to runes (16.4.04-18.4.04), osteoarchaeology: the study of ancient human remains (7.5.04-9.5.04), Anglo-Saxon architecture in its European context (21.5.04-23.5.04), the Bayeux Tapestry (18.6.04-20.6.04), rural landscape in Anglo-Saxon East Anglia (18.6.04-20.6.04), architecture of Ely cathedral (2.7.04-4.7.04). Details from Board of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, Madingley Hall, Cambridge cb3 8aq, tel 01954 280280, fax 01954 280200, web www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/ContEd/
University of Kent
DAY SCHOOLS: architecture of the Georgian Age (27.3.04), the Whitefriars dig uncovered (24.3.04). Details from Participation Unit, Admissions and Partnership Services, the Registry, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, tel 0800 975 3777, email information@kent.ac.uk, web www.kent.ac.uk
St John Payne School
WEEKLY: introduction to British archaeology (5.1.04-8.3.04). Details from Chelmsford Adult Community College, tel 01245 263013.
The Edward James Foundation, West Dean college
PROFESSIONAL COURSES: building conservation and repair of architectural metalwork (24.2.04-27.2.04), conservation and repair of brick and terracotta masonry (9.3.04-12.3.04), specifying conservation works (30.3.04-2.4.04), the historic interior: guidelines for commissioning conservation research (27.4.04-29.4.04), cleaning masonry buildings (4.5.04-7.5.04), conservation and repair of plasters and renders (18.5.04-21.5.04), the ecological management of historic buildings and sites (8.6.04-11.6.04), conservation and repair of flint buildings (22.6.04-25.6.04), advanced masonry repair techniques (13.7.04-16.7.04); professional conservators in practice courses: the conservation of leather (11.1.04-14.1.04), introduction to conservation for air and land transport collections (25.1.04-30.1.04), the conservation of archaeological ceramics (1.2.04-6.2.04), art and object handling (10.2.04-13.2.04), the conservation of plastics (4.4.04-7.4.04). Details from the Building Conservation Masterclasses Coordinator at West Dean College, West Dean, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0QZ, tel 01243 818294/811301, fax 01243 811343, e-mail pat.jackson@westdean.org.uk, web www.westdean.org.uk
Chipping Norton Community Education Centre
WEEKLY: prehistoric houses (12.1.04-15.3.04). Details from Chipping Norton CEC, 60 Burford Road, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire OX7 5DY, tel 01608 641644.
Cirencester College
Various short courses and taster courses for adults are offered in archaeology, as well as GCSE, AS and A level. The College offers 1-2 places for students wishing to train to teach archaeology and offers the PGCE/Cert Ed (FE). Details from Cirencester College, Fosse Way Campus, Stroud Road, Cirencester Gl7 1ES, tel 01285 640994, email student.services@cirencester.ac.uk, web www.cirencester.ac.uk
University of Essex
WEEKLY: archaeology of recent times (12.1.04-15.3.04), British prehistory from the ice ages to the iron age (15.1.04-17.6.04); STUDY TOUR: people and piety: Norwich and Walsingham in the middle ages (14.4.04-17.4.04). Details from Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Essex, Wivenhoe park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, tel 01206 872446, email CLL@essex.ac.uk, web www.essex.ac.uk/cll
Essex County Council
DAY SCHOOLS AND SHORT COURSES: lime plaster, run mouldings and pargetting (29.1.04-30.1.04), repair and conservation of historic joinery (12.2.04-13.2.04)brick arches, repair and construction (18.3.04), rubbed and gauged brickwork (19.3.04), timber frame repairs (5.5.04-7.5.04), wattle and daub (28.5.04), flint walling (9.6.04-11.6.04). Details from Heritage Conservation, Essex County Council, County Hall, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1QH, tel 01245 437672, fax: 01245 258353, email pauline.hudspith@essexcc.gov.uk
Centre for Manx Studies
SEMINARS: archaeology (17.1.04), 'The severance': how and when did Man become an island (21.2.04). Details from Centre for Manx Studies, 6 Kingswood Grove, Douglas, Isle of Man Im1 3LX, tel 01624 673074, fax 01624 678752, email cms@liv.ac.uk, web www.liv.ac.uk/ManxStudies
Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society
LECTURE: Viking treasures of the Isle of Man (6.3.04). Details from the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Clare Bryan, tel 01624 897306, web iomnhas.iomonline.co.im
Fakenham Adult Education Office
WEEKLY: introduction to cultural heritage (16.1.04-19.3.04), introduction to archaeological methods (30.4.04-2.7.04). Details from Chris Chalk, Fakenham Adult Education Office, The Old Rectory, 21 Oak Street, Fakenham, NR21 9DX, tel 01328 851223, email fakenham.adult.edu@norfolk.gov.uk
Buckinghamshire LEA
LINKED DAY SCHOOLS: archaeology of the Chilterns (21.2.04-24.04). Details from Buckinghamshire Adult Learning, High Wycombe Community School, Hatters Lane, High Wycombe, tel 01494 473795.
Lynn Museum
WEEKLY: identifying and interpreting archaeological artefacts: advanced (12.1.04-15.3.04). Details from Robin Hanley, Lynn Museum, Old Market Street, King's Lynn PE30 1NL, tel 01553 775001.
University of Leeds
WEEKLY: archaeology in Craven (14.1.04-24.3.04), the archaeology of prehistoric Britain (14.1.04-24.3.04), great discoveries in British archaeology (16.1.04-26.3.04), Viking York and the north (26.1.04-5.4.04), introduction to the archaeology of early medieval Britain (27.1.04-6.4.04). Details School of Continuing Education, University of Leeds lsa 9jt, tel 0113 3433222, fax 0113 3433240, email sce@leeds.ac.uk, web www.leeds.ac.uk/sce
University of Leicester
WEEKLY: the church in the middle ages (15.1.04-18.3.04), military domestic architecture up to the sixteenth century (22.4.04-24.6.04). Details from Vaughan College, University of Leicester, St Nicholas Circle, Leicester LE1 4LB, tel 0116 251 7368, fax 0116 251 1128, email lifelonglearning.vau@le.ac.uk, web www.le.ac.uk/lifelonglearning/vaughan
University of Liverpool
WEEKLY: Roman Britain (from 14.1.04), the divinity of kings: ancient Egyptian religion from 3000 BC (from 19.1.04 and from 20.1.04), living under the Romans: Rome in the East (from 21.1.04), Romans in Africa (from 22.1.04), mysteries of the Dark Ages (from 26.1.04), computer graphics for archaeologists (from 27.1.04), Akhenaten and the Amarna Period (from 29.1.04); Certificate in Higher Education (Archaeological Studies) 120 credits. Details from Continuing Education, The University of Liverpool, 126 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L69 3GR, tel 0151 7946900/6952, web www.liv.ac.uk/conted/, email conted@liverpool.ac.uk
Hobart High School
WEEKLY: how old is that house?: how to be a house detective (28.4.04-30.6.04). Details from Maggie Robertson, Hewett School, Cecil Road, Norwich NR1 2PL, tel 01603 616212, email loddon.adult.edu@norfolk.gov.uk
Birkbeck College, University of London
day schools: introduction to clay tobacco pipes (17.1.04). Details from Archaeology, Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck College, University of London, 26 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DQ, tel 020 7631 6627, fax 020 7631 6688, email archaeology@fce.bbk.ac.uk, web www.bbk.ac.uk/fce
Birkbeck College London Archaeology Society
LECTURES: recent excavations at Colchester (16.1.04), Roman Silchester (30.1.04), the advent of the English: migration as an historical event (13.2.04), the growth of an urban neighbourhood: the archaeology of insula VI.i at Pompeii (20.2.04). Details from Gavin Radis-Smith, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, email megasalexndros_3@hotmail.com
British Archaeological Association
LECTURES: woodcuts to wallpaintings: some new discoveries (7.1.04), Gothic remodelling itself: restoration and intention at the outer porch of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol (4.2.04), English responses to Italian architecture during the High Renaissance period (7.4.04); regional lecture (Cardiff): the king and the master mason: ideas and design in Edward I's castles in Wales (8.3.04). Details from the British Archaeological Association, c/o Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0HS.
British Museum
STUDY DAY: the science and conservation of treasure (to be held in conjunction with the Treasure exhibition and National Science week, 11.3.04). Details from P.T. Craddock, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, email pcraddock@british-museum.ac.uk
City University
WEEKLY: medieval London's key archaeological sites (20.1.04-23.3.04), introduction to the history of architecture (21.1.04-24.3.04). Details from Department of Continuing Education, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, tel 0207 0405060, web www.city.ac.uk/conted/cfa/htm
University of Manchester
WEEKLY: architecture in Manchester 1800-2000 (8.1.04-11.3.04), British social history: Roman invasion to Anglo-Saxons (12.1.04-15.3.04), Celts and Romans: contact with Rome (12.1.04-16.2.04), Manchester and the archaeology of its region: from Elizabethan textile town to industrial city (13.1.04-9.3.04), Roman and Briton in north west England: town and countryside (14.1.04-10.3.04), another look at the landscape (15.1.04-18.3.04), bare ruined choirs - British abbeys and priories ( 15.1.04-18.3.04), a journey into the stone age (15.1.04-18.3.04), waterways, railways and industry in mid-Cheshire (15.1.04-18.3.04); WALKS: Whaley Bridge and Bugsworth (14.3.04), railways and canals of Castlefield (27.3.04). Details from Centre for Continuing Education, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, web www.man.ac.uk/cce
Craven College
LINKED DAY SCHOOLS: conservation of artefacts (17.1.04-14.2.04), geophysics and surveying (6.3.04-3.4.04), interpreting metals, textiles and ceramics in archaeology (1.5.04-29.5.04). Details from School of heritage Studies, Craven College, High Street, Skipton BD23 1JY, tel 01756 791411, fax 01756 794872, email heritage@craven-college.ac.uk, web www.craven-college.ac.uk
University of East Anglia
WEEKLY: the medieval way of death (14.1.04-17.3.04), how old is that church?: how to be a church detective (15.1.04-18.3.04 & 28.4.04-30.6.04); day schools: the archaeology of Boudica and the Boudican revolt (28.2.04), ceramics in archaeology: a beginner's guide (27.3.04), medieval King's Lynn (27.3.04). Details from Centre for Continuing Education, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, tel 01603 593266, fax 01603 250035, email cont.ed@uea.ac.uk, web www.uea.ac.uk
Wensum Lodge
SHORT COURSE: how old is that church?: how to be a church detective (15.1.04-18.3.03). Details from Wensum Lodge, 169 King Street, Norwich NR1 1QW, tel 01603 666021.
University of Oxford
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING COURSES: the aristocratic town house in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (3.1.04-4.1.04), post excavation assessment (19.1.04), buildings archaeology (21.1.04), health and safety for archaeologists (26.1.04-27.01.04), archaeology, planning and development (10.2.04-11.02.04), maritime archaeology (17.2.04-18.2.04), characterisation (16.3.04), managing archaeological publication (22.3.04), public inquiry workshop (24.3.04-26.3.04), historic gardens and landscapes: threats and the conservation toolkit (29.3.04-30.3.04), the use of documentary sources for archaeologists (14.4.04), integrated survey: buildings and landscapes (6.5.04-7.5.04), planning and the historic environment (14.5.04), building survey week: analysing and recording historic buildings (31.5.04-4.6.04), archaeological survey week: analysing and recording historic landscapes (21.6.04-25.6.04); WEEKLY: the archaeology of later Roman Britain (19.1.04-22.3.04), archaeology of monasteries and cathedrals (20.1.04), architectural heritage of the British city (20.1.04-15.6.04), Rome's northern frontiers (20.1.04-23.3.04), historic parks and gardens in Oxfordshire and beyond (21.1.04-24.3.04), the English house and its decoration (22.1.04-25.3.04), home is where the hearth is (22.4.04-24.6.04), life and death in prehistoric Britain (22.4.04-10.6.04); DAY SCHOOLS: an introduction to th use of sites and monuments records (22.11.03-24.11.03), water supply and use in the Roman world (28.11.03-30.11.03), villages and landscapes in the middle ages: recent surveys and explorations (6.2.04-8.2.04), landscape archaeology (6.3.04-7.3.04), the medieval cloister (2.4.04-4.4.04), the Viking contribution to Britain (16.4.04-18.4.04); WEEKEND: the Sumerians (17.1.04), villages and landscapes in the middle ages (6.2.04-8.2.04), into Nubia, Egypt above the Cataract (21.2.04), landscape archaeology (6.3.04-7.3.04), archaeology of the Byzantine state and society (19.3.04-21.3.04), the Viking contribution to Britain (16.4.04-18.4.04). Details from Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA, tel 01865 270360, fax 01865 270309, email professional.arch@conted.ox.ac.uk, web www.conted.ox.ac.uk
Ruskin College
MEETINGS: the restoration of the Lichfield and Hatherton canals: heritage, history or tourism? (24.4.04), British vernacular furniture: the cultural diversity of our regional traditions (12.6.04). Details from Ruskin Public History Discussion Group, Ruskin College, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HE, email edeeley@ruskin.ac.uk
Pontefract and District Archaeological Society
LECTURES: Danvm to Lagentivm; the Roman road between Doncaster and Castleford (16.1.04), Malham Moor; a multi-period landscape (13.2.04), a C12th abbey; how it is run in the C21st (19.3.04), guns, boots and barrels (16.4.04), annual general meeting (23.4.04); EXCURSIONS: Kendal and Grasmere (17.5.04), Oxford (14.6.04), Tatton Park and Macclesfield (12.7.04), Castle Acre Priory (6.9.04), Dorset (24.10.04-26.10.04). Details from Mrs P Lockett, Pontefract and District Archaeological Society, tel 01977 619356.
Nautical Archaeology Society
The NAS offer a variety of professional courses, including underwater excavation, 3-D computer aided survey techniques, flint technology and recognition, archaeological science, geographical information systems and archaeology, dendrochronology, diver search and survey techniques, underwater archaeological photography. These are aimed at archaeological practitioners looking to develop their knowledge and practical skills in specific areas of the discipline. Bespoke courses for groups can be arranged. Courses will also be of interest to avocational people. Details from NAS Training, Fort Cumberland, Fort Cumberland Road, Eastney, Portsmouth PO4 9LD, tel/fax 023 9281 8419, email nas@nasportsmouth.org.uk
South East Somerset Archaeological and Historical Society
MEETINGS: members afternoon and report on South Cadbury project (18.1.04), archaeological outreach: a new heritage access for South Somerset (15.2.04), medieval beasts and monsters (14.3.04), the South Cadbury shield (25.4.04), tour of Wilton Museum (20.6.04). Details from South East Somerset Archaeological and Historical Society, Jean Thorpe (Hon. Sec.), Silverlands, Combe Hill, Templecombe, Somerset BA8 0LL, tel 01963 371307.
Tanner House, Thetford
WEEKLY: the development of the medieval castle (13.1.04-16.3.04). Details from Carol Bushell, Thetford Adult Education Service, Tanner House, Tanner Street, Thetford IP24 2BQ, tel 01842 755492, email thetford.adult.edu@norfolk.gov.uk
3'S Company Ltd.
Specialists in archaeological and heritage publication, offering training in archaeological illustration. Details from 3'S Company Ltd., 29-31 Distons Lane, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire OX7 5NY, tel 01608 643334, email info@3sco.co.uk, web www.3sco.co.uk/training/training.html
Victorian Society
The Victorian Society arranges a range of events, including lectures and field trips, in London and elsewhere in England. Details from Victorian Society, 1 Priory Gardens, Bedford Par, London W4 1TT, tel 020 8994 1019, fax 020 8747 5899, email admin@victorian-society.org.uk
Oxfordshire LEA
WEEKLY: Anglo-Saxon Wallingford (14.1.04-3.3.04). Details from Wallingford Adult Education Centre, St George's Road, Wallingford OX10 8HR, tel 01491 836710.
Fairland Hall
WEEKLY: introduction to cultural heritage (13.1.04-16.3.04), introduction to archaeological methods (20.4.04-22.6.04), how old is that house?: how to be a house detective (26.4.04-28.6.04). Details from Kate De Vries, Adult Education Office, Community Centre, Church Street, Attleborough, Norfolk NR17 2AH, tel 01953 455634, email attleborough.adult.edu@norfolk.gov.uk
Department of Archaeology, University of York
PROFESSIONAL COURSES: the study and conservation of historic interiors (19.1.04-22.1.04), brick, terracotta and tiles (26.1.04-29.1.04), economics and finance of conservation (16.2.04-19.2.04), the study and conservation of metals in architecture (23.2.04-26.2.04), modern materials (1.3.04-4.4.04), dealing with damp in historic buildings (TBC). Details from Judy Cavens, Department of Archaeology, the King's Manor, York YO1 7EP, tel 01904 433901, email jc48@york.ac.uk, web www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch
Centre for Continuing Education, University of York
WEEKLY: medieval stained glass in York parish churches (16.1.04-19.3.04). Details from Centre for Continuing Education, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, tel 01904 434620, fax 01904 434621, email 1cb5@york.ac.uk, web www.york.ac.uk
The WEA organises courses throughout the UK, through its numerous district offices & branches (and often in association with different colleges and universities). Contact details, for all the various district offices, are available from the CBA. Courses offered by some of the district offices are given below and are held at various branches (and locations) within each district, as indicated.
London
WEEKLY: historical development of the landscape in northern Britain (13.1.04-16.3.04), Roman Britain, civilisation or imperialism? (13.1.04-30.3.04), treasures and trinkets: exploring the 18th century through objects (14.1.04-18.2.04), buildings of England: the 18th century (15.1.04-18.3.04), industrial archaeology (15.1.04-25.3.04), people and the land: a history (15.1.04-18.3.04); day schools: English churchyards and cemeteries (1.11.03), archaeology: Roman London (7.2.04). Details from WEA London District, 4 Luke Street, London EC2A 4XW, tel 020 7613 7550, fax 020 7383 5668, email london@wea.org.uk, web www.wea.org.uk
South East
WEEKLY: architecture: Wren to Rococo (6.1.04-9.3.04), historic buildings of the Kent countryside (7.1.04-10.3.04), stone age to the Romans in Sussex (8.1.04-11.3.04), the archaeology of churches (14.1.04-17.3.04), exploring some Kent villages (15.1.04-18.3.04), the history of church architecture (20.4.04-25.5.04); DAY SCHOOLS: legends in the landscape (31.1.04), Georgian London: people, houses and squares (24.4.04). Details from WEA South Eastern, 57 Riverside 2, Sir Thomes Longley Road, Rocheser, Kent ME2 4DP, tel 01634 730101, fax 01634 295456, email southestern@wea.org.uk
Distance Learning
The following new distance learning course has been brought to our attention: Postgraduate Diploma in Building Conservation. This 2-year course is designed for those wishing to acquire the specialist skills, understanding and sensitivity needed to work with historic buildings and structure. The course starts each year in June. Details from The Director of Student Services, The College of Estate Management, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AW, tel 0118 986 1101, fax 0118 975 0188, email: prospectuses@cem.ac.uk
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