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Current Archaeology Live! 2025 is almost here, and tickets are selling fast. The conference, held in partnership with University College London’s Institute of Archaeology, will be on Saturday 1 March, at the UCL Institute of Education, near Russell Square in London. During this one-day event, you will be able to hear from the experts, learning about the latest archaeological discoveries from across the UK and further afield. During breaks between sessions, you can browse a range of stalls in the ever popular Archaeology Fair and, at the end of the day, archaeologist and educator Julian Richards will announce the winners of this year’s CA Awards, celebrating the people, projects, and publications that have made an outstanding contribution to archaeology. Grateful thanks to Andante Travels, Wessex Insurance Brokers Ltd, Peter Sommer Travels, and Cardiff University BioArchaeology for sponsoring the 2025 awards.
HOW TO BOOK
Full-price tickets are £65, but this year we’re offering CA subscribers £10 off – just enter the code ‘CA10’ at the checkout to apply the discount (student concessions are also available). To secure your place, please visit http://www.archaeology.co.uk/live or call 020 8819 5580.
READ ALL ABOUT IT
For those of you who use X or Bluesky, we will be live-tweeting the conference on both platforms, including snippets of the talks and the CA Awards results. Look out for the hashtag #CALive25; we are @CurrentArchaeo on X, and @currentarchaeology.bsky.social on Bluesky.
CONFERENCE DETAILS
For 2025, we will be returning to University College London’s Institute of Education, located at 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, in the heart of Bloomsbury. Russell Square tube station (on the Piccadilly Line) is about a five-minute walk away, while Euston Square tube station (on the Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan Lines) and Euston station are about a ten-minute walk away. King’s Cross St Pancras is also only a 15 minute walk or quick taxi ride way. You can find the provisional timetable of speakers below, and the Archaeology Fair (described under the timetable) will be running during both tea breaks and the lunch break.
Below: Map showing this year’s conference location:
Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE
Session 1 (9.30-11am)
Professor Dorian Fuller (UCL) – The origins of agriculture and the culture of the oven
Antonietta Lerz & Han Li (MOLA) – A puzzlement: reconstructing the Roman paintings of Southwark
Dr Amanda Chadburn (Bournemouth University) –The Sun, Moon, and the monuments of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site
Session 2 (11.30am-1pm)
Dr Helen Gittos (University of Oxford) – Sutton Hoo and Syria: the Anglo Saxons who served in the Byzantine army?
Anna Giecco & Nick Henderson (Uncovering Roman Carlisle) – From Hadrian to the Severans: the story of Carlisle’s monumental Roman complex
Professor Oliver Creighton & Professor Alan Outram (University of Exeter) – Medieval warhorse: the archaeology of a medieval revolution?
Session 3 (2-3.30pm)
Professor Rosalie David (Professor Emerita, University of Manchester) – Ancient Egyptian mummies: insights provided by bio-scientific research
Natasha Billson (Behind the Trowel) – From the trench to the screen: public archaeology in the digital landscape
Mark Beattie-Edwards (Nautical Archaeology Society) – Klein Hollandia: discovering a British ‘act of piracy’
Keynote speaker (4-5pm)
Nick Card (Ness of Brodgar Trust) – Ness of Brodgar: a millennium in the making; 20 years of discovery
The CA Awards results will be announced at 5pm
ALL THE FUN OF THE (ARCHAEO) FAIR
Our exciting Archaeology Fair is back for another year, offering a range of stalls for you to browse in the breaks between sessions. Make sure you stop by to learn about travel, fieldwork, and study opportunities, as well as specialist archaeological services – and to pick up a book or several!
This year’s fair will include our partner for the event, UCL Institute of Archaeology, as well as leading archaeological publishers and booksellers, including Archaeopress, BAR Publishing, and Chris Snook Booksales. For those interested in travel, you can find out more about expert-led tours and heritage-themed holidays from Andante Travels, Hidden History Travel, Kirker Holidays, The Cultural Experience, and Peter Sommer Travels. Further information on archaeological fieldwork and research can be gained from Kent Archaeological Society, Kent Archaeological Field School, Cardiff University BioArchaeology, and the Royal Archaeological Institute, while you can learn about the archaeological services offered by Wessex Insurance Brokers Ltd and AS Geospatial Surveys Ltd.
Grateful thanks to this year’s award sponsors:
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