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LAUNCHED – Wiki page for Revised Research Strategy and Agenda Project

Wiki page now launched for the Revised Research Strategy and Agenda Project. For further information and details see the following article: MPRG Research Strategy and Agenda: Regional Framework Project (pdf 36.5KB) or click here to ...
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SEM2010 – SEM & Microanalysis in the study of historical technology, materials and conservation, 9th-10th September 2010

The British Museum will be hosting a conference on SEM and Microanalysis in the study of historical technology, materials and conservation on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th September 2010. For more information visit www.britishmuseum.org/sem2010 or ...
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Early Medieval Finds from the British Isles – A day conference on theoretical and practical approaches to material culture Saturday, May 29th 2010

A one-day conference is being held at the University of Oxford entitled: Early Medieval Finds from the British Isles: A day conference on theoretical and practical approaches to material culture, to be held on Saturday, ...
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SEMPER Meeting “Aspects of Pottery”. 17th April 2010

The South East Midlands Pottery Research Group SEMPER (incorporating the East Anglian Pottery Group) will be holding a meeting entitled Aspects of Pottery on Saturday, 17 April 2010, to be held at Harlow Museum. This ...
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North and south: tobacco pipe studies in the western Mediterranean and their north-western European connections. 4th-7th November 2010

The 26th conference of the Académie Internationale de la Pipe will be held in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France from the 4th to the 7th of November 2010 at the Bibliothèque Municipale. It will focus on the ...
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Opinions sought on unidentified vessel…

A pottery vessel recovered from a middle Iron Age enclosure at Beckford, Worcestershire, remains unidentified and undated despite a great deal of study. The authors are hoping that one last attempt at circulating information about ...
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MPRG REGIONAL GROUP MEETING (SOUTH) 20th March 2010

EARLY MEDIEVAL POTTERY IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND

The Southern regional group are holding a meeting on the subject of early medieval pottery (6th-12th centuries) in the region. This will take place at Hampshire Museums Service in Winchester ...
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Call for Papers – Potters’ workshops in the early Middle Ages (Vth -XIIth century)

An international conference to be held in in Douai (Northern France) in October 2010.

Please reply by 31st January 2010, click here for information or click here for longer version of information ...
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UPDATED – Forthcoming conferences:

- THINGS MEDIEVAL: A conference in tribute to Alan Vince

To be held at the Museum of London, on the 27th February 2010. Click here for conference flyer (pdf 75kb)


- Call for papers for the ...
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UPDATED – Only a few places left book soon! Continued Professional Training for Ceramic Archaeologists

New dates are now available for the previously postponed MPRG training course; Medieval Imported Pottery

The course will run on the following dates at the University of Southampton:

25th - 26th January 2010
27th - 28th January ...
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