Antiquities, archaeology and the public

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• Helen Geake
• Tuesday 08 February 2011, 17:00-18:30
• Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Bernhard Fulda.

he first meeting of the Public and Popular History Seminar this term will take place this coming Tuesday, 8 February, at 5pm, in the Knox Shaw Room in Sidney Sussex. It will feature a talk by Helen Geake entitled ”Antiquities, archaeology and the public”. Helen is one of the key members of Channel 4’s popular and long-running archaeology series, Time Team. She is also a Finds Advisor (for post-Roman artefacts) for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, based at Cambridge University’s Department of Archaeology. Before that she was assistant keeper of archaeology at Norwich Castle Museum. She has a doctorate from the University of York; her major research work has been on Anglo-Saxon burial practices in the seventh and early eighth centuries, studied through the objects deposited with bodies in graves. Everybody welcome!

This talk is part of the Public and Popular History series.

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