News | Posted December 9, 2021
Following recent new Scottish Government guidance emphasising working from home where possible, the Society has decided to move its lectures and other events back to being fully online. We are doing this to help protect our staff and those others with whom we work to host in-person hybrid events at this time, and we hope you understand. Those who have booked …
News | Posted December 14, 2020
The Rhind Lectures 2020 have begun, with the first lecture now available to watch free on our YouTube channel. This year, the series of six lectures by Dr Alison Sheridan will offer an in-depth assessment of the current state of our knowledge about the period c.4000-2500 BC, when new ways of living and of making sense of the world appeared and developed in Neolithic Scotland. …
News | Posted November 10, 2019
Unfortunately Dr Batey is unable to deliver her lectures on Monday and Tuesday evenings. While we have had to cancel our Shetland event on Tuesday, the Monday evening event will be going ahead as usual, with a changed line-up of speakers. Several early career researchers have very generously stepped in at late notice to give us a flavour of current …
News | Posted April 24, 2019
The prestigious annual Rhind lectures will take place from 10 May to 12 May 2019. This year, Professor David J Breeze HonFSA Scot will be lecturing on: ‘Hadrian’s Wall: A Study in Archaeological Exploration and Interpretation’. Hadrian’s Wall was built to defend the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire in AD 122, and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site …
News | Posted October 22, 2018
Open Access Week, now in its tenth year, is taking place this year from 22nd-28th October. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland fully supports Open Access publication. This is because we want our authors’ research to reach as wide an audience as possible, and our readers to have free access to as much of our books and journals content as …
Open Access Week, now in its tenth year, is taking place this year from 22nd-28th October. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland fully supports Open Access publication. This is because we want our authors’ research to reach as wide an audience as possible, and our readers to have free access to as much of our books and journals content as …
News | Posted September 5, 2018
Our full Programme for the year is now available and bookings are open online https://www.socantscot.org/events/. Download the leaflet here.
News | Posted August 10, 2018
A selection of Society publications will again be available at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. If you are in Edinburgh this month, do drop by the festival bookshop where you can browse our latest publication, Native and Roman on the Northern Frontier, as well as some of our best-selling backlist titles, covering a wide range of Scottish heritage. The festival …
A selection of Society publications will again be available at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. If you are in Edinburgh this month, do drop by the festival bookshop where you can browse our latest publication, Native and Roman on the Northern Frontier, as well as some of our best-selling backlist titles, covering a wide range of Scottish heritage. The festival …
News | Posted June 7, 2018
The prestigious annual Rhind lectures will take place from 22 June to 24 June 2018. This year, John Barber will be lecturing on ‘Drystone technologies: Neolithic tensions and Iron Age compressions’. One of the highlights of the Society calendar, we have decided to mark this year’s event with a collection of our favourite related books and articles from across the …
The prestigious annual Rhind lectures will take place from 22 June to 24 June 2018. This year, John Barber will be lecturing on ‘Drystone technologies: Neolithic tensions and Iron Age compressions’. One of the highlights of the Society calendar, we have decided to mark this year’s event with a collection of our favourite related books and articles from across the …
News | Posted June 8, 2017
The Lindsay-Fischer lectureship was founded in 1980 in honour of Ian Gordon Lindsay (1906-66) and his friend Gerhard Fischer (1890-1977), both for their work on the historic architecture of Scotland and Norway respectively and for their achievement in promoting cordial relations between Scottish and Norwegian Scholars. The lectures are hosted by the Society in Scotland and the Fortidsminneforeningen in Norway …
The Lindsay-Fischer lectureship was founded in 1980 in honour of Ian Gordon Lindsay (1906-66) and his friend Gerhard Fischer (1890-1977), both for their work on the historic architecture of Scotland and Norway respectively and for their achievement in promoting cordial relations between Scottish and Norwegian Scholars. The lectures are hosted by the Society in Scotland and the Fortidsminneforeningen in Norway …
News | Posted April 28, 2017
This May, the Society is celebrating all things Rhind. On May 8, Dr Margaret Maitland will be delivering a lecture titled The Tomb Uncovered, in which she will shed new light on the stories and artefacts featured in the National Museum of Scotland’s new exhibition, The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial. Visit https://www.socantscot.org/event/rhind-and-egypt/ for more information. Later in the month, Professor Roberta …
This May, the Society is celebrating all things Rhind. On May 8, Dr Margaret Maitland will be delivering a lecture titled The Tomb Uncovered, in which she will shed new light on the stories and artefacts featured in the National Museum of Scotland’s new exhibition, The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial. Visit https://www.socantscot.org/event/rhind-and-egypt/ for more information. Later in the month, Professor Roberta …
