Programme of Events 2025
All Field Club members are welcome to attend ANY of the events. Members may bring a guest, joint-members may bring two guests.
Members - please see your newsletter and/or the website and/or the latest e-Bulletin for exact meeting places, and any booking requirements.
Non-members - please contact the section leader or secretary to see if places are available.
| 8th March SATURDAY |
Landscape Section: Visit to Highcliffe Beach and Castle and Friar’s Cliff. |
| 27th March THURSDAY |
Archaeology Section: The David Johnston Memorial Lecture: Dr. Edwin Wood - "Beneath the Hob Nail Boot: The Roman army in the 'civil' zone of Britannia"
Book via: www.ticketsource.co.uk/hantsfieldclubarchaeology |
| 26th April SATURDAY |
Local History Section: Spring Symposium on Rebellion, Subversion and Protest in Hampshire
Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, SO23 8TH. (Location to be cofirmed.) |
| 12th May MONDAY |
Historic Buildings Section: visit to New Place, Shedfield, an Edwardian house designed by Edwin Luytens. |
| 21st May WEDNESDAY |
Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, 7.30 pm Annual General Meeting; plus President's Lecture to be given by Dave Allen:
Celebrating 200 Years of the Railway in Winchester.‘Brassey, Locke and Tite; brief lives of the men who brought the railway to Winchester.'
Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, SO23 8TH. |
| 2nd July WEDNESDAY |
Archaeology Section: a guided tour of Bournemouth University's 2025 excavations at Winterborne Kingston; free places can be booked via www.ticketsource.co.uk/hantsfieldclubarchaeology Arrive 10:30 for 11:00 tour. |
| 27th July SUNDAY |
Historic Buildings Section: afternoon visit to Bishop's Waltham. |
| 10th August SUNDAY |
Landscape Section: morning visit to look at the Geology and habitats of Passfield Common and Conford Moor. |
| 28th August THURSDAY |
Archaeology Section: Brockenhurst: excavation visit to the New Forest History and Archaeology Group at New Copse Roman enclosure; free places can be booked via www.ticketsource.co.uk/hantsfieldclubarchaeology
Arrive 17:30 for 18:00 tour. |
| 13th September SATURDAY |
Landscape Section: Dawn Cansfield will lead a visit to Woolmer Forest to look at: Elizabeth Barlow and the Discovery of the Woolmer Urn |
| 4th October SATURDAY |
Landscape and Local History Sections: a joint visit to Crondall. |
| 9th October THURSDAY |
Historic Buildings Section: AGM to be followed by a talk from Dr Carolyne Haynes, Museum Director of The Brickworks Museum, on: Who Made the Bricks?
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| 30th October THURSDAY |
Historic Buildings Section: 2nd Edward Roberts Memorial Lecture; Dr Nat Alcock on: Cruck Framed Buildings. Places can be booked via TicketSource.
Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, SO23 8TH. |
| 15th November SATURDAY |
Archaeology Section: AGM & Annual Conference: “Recycling and Re-use: the thrifty past”, an all-day conference at the Hampshire Record Office featuring experts in their fields examining how our ancestors made the best use of resources round them
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| 19th November WEDNESDAY |
Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, 7.30 pm, the 2025 OGS Crawford Lecture: Professor Duncan Sayer - The early Anglo-Saxon Migrations; the implications of aDNA, isotopes and material culture
Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, SO23 8TH |
| 21st November FRIDAY |
Local History Section: AGM & Annual Lecture: Professor David Brown - 'Lord Palmerston at home in Hampshire'
Pastoral Centre, St Peter's Church, Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8RY. |
From time to time, other societies and groups will give details of events, which may be of interest to our members, and we advertise these whenever possible.
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