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Festival 2022

The 2022 Festival of Archaeology tales place from 16-31 July and this year our theme is Journeys

We are currently developing a new website for the Festival of Archaeology

For information about the 2022 Festival please visit https://www.archaeologyuk.org/festival.html

Blog

Festival of Archaeology Digital Week initial line up
Here's the initial line up for the Council for British Archaeology's nine-day digital archaeology festival, taking place between 11 and 19 July 2020, run in partnership with Historic England and other heritage and archaeology bodies around the UK. >> Read more...
James Rose 19th June 2020
European Archaeology Days 2020 logo
European Archaeology Days are going online! Discover archaeology across Europe through this year's digital activities.  >> Read more...
Claire Corkill 29th May 2020
Festival of Archaeology 2020 banner
The 2020 CBA Festival of Archaeology will now be taking place in two parts with a series of digital events in July and on the ground events in October.   >> Read more...
Claire Corkill 15th April 2020
Taryn Bell
Taryn Bell, PhD student at the University of York shares her interest in the Paleolithic >> Read more...
James Rose 8th November 2019
Alastair Oswald
Alastair Oswald is a PhD candidate at the University of York⁣⁣. Find out more about how Alistair got involved in arcaheology and his current research here.   >> Read more...
James Rose 1st November 2019
#HumansOfArchaeology - Danielle Silverman
Danielle Silverman⁣ is an MPhil student of Archaeology at Cambridge⁣. Danielle tells us about her work and how she became interested in archaeology in the latest #HumansOfArchaeology blog.  >> Read more...
25th October 2019
Olivia Jackson
Olivia Jackson volunteered with the Council for British Archaeology over the summer of 2019 on a Heritage Training Placement with Historic England, helping out with the promotion and coordination of the >> Read more...
18th October 2019
Eleanor Green
Eleanor Green is part of the Ancient DNA research group at the Department of Archaeology, University of York. Discover her archaeology story in our new blog series.  >> Read more...
James Rose 4th October 2019
Dr Aleks Pluskowski is Associate Professor in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Reading. Find out why he thinks archaeology is important in the first of our new #HumansOfArchaeology blog series.  >> Read more...
James Rose 27th September 2019
Visitors having a go at digging
This week's guest blog comes from Archaeology in Mind (AiM), a community archaeology group in the Wolverhampton area. Eileen Matthews from AiM tells us about their community dig as part of the 2019 Festival of Archaeology.  >> Read more...
Claire Corkill 12th August 2019