Events Recorded Online

The Society has recorded and published these events online to aid in its charitable objective of disseminating knowledge about Scotland's past to as wide an audience as possible.  It also allows Fellows and non-Fellows who cannot make certain events to enjoy them. Please do not hesitate to contact the Society with regard to these online recordings, for example where appropriate copyright should be attributed if not already.  The Rhind Lectures have also been recorded online.

• Anniversary Meeting 2012 - Annual General Meeting

  including a short lecture on the Galloway Picts Project by Ronan Toolis and Dr Chris Bowles

• Piltdown - The Lost World

  Lecture by Dr John McNabb, University of Southampton

• Archaeological Research in Progress 2012

  The national conference examining recent and ongoing archaeological projects across Scotland.

• On the March: Roman camps in Scotland

  Lecture by Dr Rebecca Jones, RCAHMS

• Loyalty to the Sovereign and the Scottish Heralds

  Lecture by Charles J Burnett Esq. KStJ, DA, MLitt, FHSS, Ross Herald Extraordinary.

• Exhibiting Scottish Identity: the 1911 Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry

  Lecture by Neil Curtis, University of Aberdeen

• Irish Iron Age Bog Bodies

  Lecture by Eamonn Kelly, Keeper of Irish Antiquities, National Museum of Ireland

• Renewed Life for Scottish Castles: a discussion of attitudes to castles in post-medieval Scotland

  Lecture by Dr Allan Rutherford, Historic Scotland

• "Wha bears a blade for Scotland?": the construction of Scottish diasporic military identities, c.1880- present day

  Dr Wendy Ugolini presented an introduction to this Royal Society of Edinburgh funded joint project between the University of Edinburgh and the National Museums Scotland at the 2011 Anniversary Meeting.

• Anniversary Meeting (AGM) 2011

  The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 2011, St Andrew's Day

• Commemorating the Medieval Past; from Shetland to St Andrews

  Presidential Address by Dr Barbara Crawford OBE MA PhD FSA FRSE FSA Scot

• The Artificial Ape: how technology changed the course of human evolution

  Lecture by Dr Timothy Taylor MA PhD FSA FRSA, University of Bradford

• 'Wishing to subjugate the whole of Britain, he invaded Caledonia': the British expedition of Septimius Severus, AD 208-11

  Lecture by Dr Nick Hodgson, TWM Archaeology

• Archaeological Research in Progress 2011

  The national conference examining recent and ongoing archaeological projects across Scotland

• How do we know what our prehistoric buildings were really like? Can restoration avoid being misleading?

  Lecture by Dr Euan MacKie, Hunterian Museum

• Excavations at St Nicholas East Kirk, Aberdeen

  Lecture by Alison Cameron, Cameron Archaeology

• Rebuilding the Iron Age: Excavation and Experiment at Castell Henllys

  Lecture by Professor Harold Mytum, Centre for Manx Studies

• ‘A jewel of gold … placed in a silver dish’: the Glenmorangie project on Early Historic Scotland, AD 300-900

  Lecture by Dr David Clarke, National Museums Scotland

• Woven into the stuff of other men's lives: the treatment of the dead in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland

  Lecture by Dr Fiona Tucker, University of Bradford

• Anniversary Meeting (AGM) 2010

  including the Stirling Iron Age Torcs Lecture by Dr Fraser Hunter

• Wealth and warfare in early Mercia: Interpreting the Staffordshire Hoard

  Lecture by Dr Gareth Williams, British Museum

• The Beakers and Bodies Project: New perspectives on death and burial in the Early Bronze Age of North-East Scotland

  Lecture by Neil Wilkin, University of Birmingham