BAHS Events Programme 2026

Talks usually take place at 7.30 pm on the first Tuesday in the month, during BST (April – October) both face-to-face in Bedale Hall and online via Zoom and during GMT (November – March) online only.

Members are sent Zoom links automatically.  Non-members please use the contact form for details.

Note that the August meeting will be face-to-face only and will take place in the afternoon.

Visitors are welcome to meetings for a charge of £3 per person.

Tuesday 6th January 2026
Zoom Only
AGM + The art of evaluation – when archaeology doesn’t go to planDavid Ingham FSA MCIfA, Project Manager at Albion Archaeology.
Tuesday 3rd February 2026
Zoom Only
Investigating the Origin of the Stonehenge Bluestones and Population MigrationDr Daisy Spencer, Palaeoenvironmental Researcher, University of Galway 
Tuesday 3rd March 2026
Zoom Only
Capability Brown – His Life and Times at Temple NewsamMike Turpin
Chair South Leeds Archaeology
Tuesday 7th April 2026WWI memorialisation in stained-glass windows in Yorkshire churchesGraham E. Seel
Tuesday 5th May 2026Ironstone Mining around New MarskeDr Chris Twigg
Tuesday 2nd June 2026S&D200Dr Emma Watson, Team Leader, Tees Archaeology
Tuesday 7th July 2026Guided walk/visitTBA
Tuesday 4th August 2026
2-4 pm
Finds handling S&D200Dr Emma Watson, Tees Archaeology
Tuesday 1st September 2026The Demise and Rise again of Anglo-Saxon England 793-975 ADProf. Dr Dyno Keatinge
Tuesday 6th October 2026The annual Percival Turnbull Memorial Lecture: Does a Neolithic Henge
lurk beneath Kirk Hammerton?

Dr Jon Kenny, Community Archaeologist
Tuesday 3rd November 2026
Zoom Only
Ancient DNA and kinship analysis at the Iron Age cemetery at Wetwang SlackProf. Ian Armit, Chair in Archaeology, University of York 
Tuesday 1st December 2026
Zoom Only
Roman Britain:  Conquest and RebellionsDr Ian Chambers FRGS