Thank you to Victoria Yuskaitis for a fascinating talk on leper squints last night. Details of our next talk is on the link below:

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Join us via Zoom on Friday when Dr Victoria Yuskaitis will be discussing leper squints; common features in parish churches across England, interpreted as medieval responses to fears over contagion.

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#medieval #archaeology #history #parishchurch #lepersquint #sahs

Dr. Nat Alcock will be discussing The Stratfire Project via Zoom for us on Friday. The project involves the combination of building recording, tree-ring dating and documentary research on historic buildings in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. More info here: www.sahs.uk.net/event-sahs-d...

We have planned an excursion on Thursday 5th March at 9:45am to the churches at Tong and Claverley in Shropshire. Led by Dr John Hunt our president, we will also have lunch in the Crown Inn at Claverley. The cost is £17.50 and includes tea/coffee/cake. For more info contact: richard.totty4@gmail.com

Wishing all of our members and followers a Merry Christmas and a happy 2026. It doesn't look like it'll snow tomorrow, so instead enjoy this beautiful wintry photo taken by Sophie who is one of our committee members. It was taken at St Peter's church in Stonnall earlier in the year. ❄️🎄

Join us this Friday via Zoom when Tim Grady, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Chester, will discuss Cannock Chase's German military cemetery. The link will be provided members on Fri, if you are a non-member, please contact us or join here: www.sahs.uk.net/join

Just us tomorrow (Fri 14th) at Wade Street Church, Lichfield when Gareth Seddon who is our Lecture Meetings Secretary, will explore the background of the South Staffordshire Territorials (1914-18). Free to members, £3 on the door to non-members. Join the society here: www.sahs.uk.net/join

Are cemeteries everywhere enclosed, churches properly built and well furnished & sacred vessels properly guarded? Join us Fri when Dr John Hunt will be discussing parish churches in the West Midlands. The link has been provided to members, if you wish to join, please do so here: www.sahs.uk.net/join

Join us on Fri 17th at Wade Street Church, Lichfield when Dr. Duncan Frankis discusses the political manoeuvring, cutthroat capitalism, and less-than-reputable trade links amassed by a group of politically conscious industrialists based in Birmingham in the late eighteenth century.

This Friday Dr Charlotte Ball will be talking to our members via Zoom about two men who were buried in Repton, a Saint and a Viking. She will consider what recent archaeology reveals about the history of the locality and the Viking Age. If you wish to join, please do do here: www.sahs.uk.net/join

Join us this Friday when Dr. Rachael Jones will be exploring changes in the urban landscape as industrialisation proceeded and declined across the 1800s.

📅 Fri 19th Sep, 8pm - 9pm (doors 7:30pm)
📍 Wade Street Church, Lichfield
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This exploratory and fun history course at Erasmus Darwin House in Lichfield touches on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon life. Over the course of ten weeks, you will enjoy weekly lectures and discussions on a variety of topics. Find out more: www.erasmusdarwin.org/event/anglo-...

The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is this Monday, which I look forward to each year. If you can get to the church in the morning when they take the antlers down, it's a wonderful sight. The church also has an exhibition showing photos, information and memorabilia from the dance through the years. 🦌⛪️🪗

📢 Council for British Archaeology West Midlands AGM & Field Day

📅 Sat 26th July, 10am-4pm

This is taking place this year in Lichfield and has been organised in association with ourselves. It's free to attend and all are welcome, but please book via: www.eventbrite.com/e/cba-west-m...

📢 Just in case anyone follows us over there, our account will be closing on Monday. 📢

We will be holding our next FREE historic graffiti identification and recording training event on Sat 14th June at Tatenhill Church, 10:30am - 12:30pm. Please book by contacting Dr Mark Knight (info on flyer). Limited parking available at the Memorial Hall, Tatenhill. Refreshments available.

Tonight at Guildhall, Lichfield, Dr. Mathew Morris (ULAS + seen on Digging for Britain) shares updates on exciting plans to investigate Castle Hill in Leicester - site of a potential medieval Knights Hospitaller monastic complex.
Doors: 7.30pm, talk: 8pm
£3 non-members, free for members.

Volunteers’ Week is an annual UK-wide campaign held from the first Mon in June. We are run by volunteers and so we would like to extend a huge thank you to not only our committee, past and present, but also to those thousands of organisations that exist because of volunteers.

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A little reminder about this talk tonight, delivered via Zoom. 💻

HS2 Phase One is well underway and Dr John Halstead from the HS2 HERDS team will give us an update this Friday at 8pm on archaeology findings so far (Zoom open from 7:30pm). Zoom link goes out to SA&HS members Friday morning. Not a member? You can join here: www.sahs.uk.net/join

After much consideration, we’ve decided to step away from X (Twitter) and will be closing our account on 30/06/25. You can still find us on here, Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Thank you to our followers over on X, we look forward to continuing the conversation with you on our other platforms.

📍 SAHS Venue Update!
From Sept 2025, our 'live' in person Friday evening lectures will take place at Wade Street Church, Frog Lane, Lichfield (WS13 6HS). Fully accessible with room for 75 attendees.
✨ First lecture: 19th Sept 2025
🎤 Final Guildhall lecture: 6th June 2025
#SAHS #LocalHistory

Live archaeology talk alert! 🏛️
Tim Malim dives into the story of Old Oswestry Hillfort, one of Britain’s Iron Age gems. This Fri 9th May at Lichfield Guildhall. Doors 7:30pm, talk 8pm. Free for members, £3 for non-members, all welcome. Tea, coffee & biscuits available. www.sahs.uk.net/events

Our Stonehenge talk is tonight at 8pm.

Stonehenge, bluestones or red herrings? Dr. Kate Farr challenges long-held beliefs about how the stones got there. Don’t miss her live online talk this Friday. SA&HS members: check your inbox Friday.
Event info 👉 www.sahs.uk.net/event-sahs-k...

A little reminder that this is tonight. 📆

Join us on Friday 11th April at Lichfield Guildhall when Stella Thebridge MBE will be presenting the history of Bishop Vesey's Stone Houses. Doors open at 7.30pm, lecture starts at 8pm. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available. Free for members, £3 on the door for non-members.

A little reminder that this is tonight, members will have now received the Zoom link.

Hannah Smith; a PhD research student at Keele University, will be joining us via Zoom on Friday 28th March at 8pm to speak about the various ways in which Staffordshire benefited from the slave trade, slavery and colonialism. Read more: www.sahs.uk.net/event-sahs-h...

The #Lichfield Waterworks Trust are holding a free event at Sandfields Pumping Station, Lichfield, WS14 0AA. It's on Sat 22nd March 2:30-4:30pm, to celebrate National Lottery Open Week (need to present a National Lottery ticket for entry). Tours are available to book in advance.