Friday Night Lectures

Friday Night Lectures

Upcoming Dates for Friday Night Lectures

Flag Fen Archaeology Park

Friday Night Lectures at Flag Fen offer an engaging programme of talks and events that open up current research and specialist knowledge to a wider audience.

Friday Night Lectures

These lectures provide a platform for experts to share their work, deepen understanding of the past, and encourage meaningful discussion.

Income generated through the programme directly supports the ongoing care, conservation, and interpretation of the Flag Fen site, helping to preserve this extraordinary place for future generations.

Upcoming lectures

Friday 24 April
The archaeology of the Flag Fen Basin
– a top-down to bottom-up perspective
Mark Knight - Archaeologist, Cambridge Archaeological Unit

This talk presents forty-four years of investigation as an archaeological odyssey around the Flag Fen Basin. Our journey begins with the discovery of Flag Fen in 1982, and the work of the Fenland Archaeological Trust (the first twenty years), and continues with a detailed tour of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit’s excavations at Bradley Fen, Horsey Hill and Must Farm (2000-2025). Our voyage ends back at Flag Fen, bringing all that we have gleaned along the way, and with it perhaps, a change in perspective regarding how we interpret the Flag Fen post-alignment and platform.

Tickets: £15 per person (+booking fee)
Doors open: 6:30pm | Talk: 7:00pm–7:50pm | Q&A: 7:50pm–8:15pm | Close: 8:30pm

Friday 29 May
The Danelaw
Don Chiswell - Local Historian

This talk explores the Danelaw. Created by the Treaty of Wedmore between Alfred the Great and the Great Army, the Danelaw covered much of eastern and northern England between the rivers Thames and Tees, settled by the Danes in the ninth century.

Within its boundaries, Danish law, customs and language prevailed - and their linguistic influence can still be traced in place names and everyday words today.

Tickets: £15 per person (+booking fee)
Doors open: 6:30pm | Talk: 7:00pm–7:50pm | Q&A: 7:50pm–8:15pm | Close: 8:30pm

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