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Eric Houlder, former Chair of CBA Yorkshire, recalls the early days of the CBA Calendar of Excavations as part of our #CBArch75 series >> Read more...
9th April 2019
What kind of projects have the CBA's regional groups been involved in since their creation in 1944? In a guest blog, Alice Saunders, the Project Delivery officer for Rendlesham Revealed, updates us on the archaeology of an Anglo-Saxon royal settlement which has been one of the highlights of CBA East's recent work.
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Alison Edwards 28th March 2019
We’re very excited about our shiny new Festival of Archaeology website – but our online presence hasn’t always looked this good. >> Read more...
Alison Edwards 28th March 2019
Steve Trow, former Director of Research at Historic England, recalls the highlights of his career in archaeology as part of our #CBA75 series.
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Alison Edwards 7th March 2019
You may have noticed we’ve been talking a lot about our work over the last 75 years – and it’s for a simple reason. The CBA held its first meeting at 11:30am on the 8th of March, 1944 – 75 years ago this week.
So this year the Festival is not only celebrating archaeology across the UK, it’s also a giant birthday party!
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Alison Edwards 6th March 2019
The CBA has seen a lot of changes within archaeology since we began in 1944! We have been getting in the spirit of our Festival theme, #Archaeotech, by asking people to nominate the most significant technological developments of the last 75 years of archaeology.
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Alison Edwards 28th February 2019
We are delighted to officially launch the CBA’s Festival of Archaeology website for 2019- a one-stop shop for Festival event organisers and a showcase for archaeology events from around the UK.
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8th February 2019
Elisabeth Quinton recounts her memories of being a volunteer archaeologist during the mid-1950s - an experience that took her from her home in Canada to Canterbury after reading a CBA publication.
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23rd January 2019
