Did you know that the SGRP has a YouTube channel, and that it has just been updated? You can now watch (or listen again) to the talks from this year’s conference in Gloucester, as well as the videos of the papers from the Group’s 50th anniversary conference. We plan to […]
Edward Biddulph
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We are delighted to invite paper submissions to our Roman Craft session at the RAC/TRAC 2026 conference at Aarhus University, Denmark, on 21-23 May 2026. We have three panels focussing on different aspects of connectivity and identity through crafts, please see the abstract below. The deadline for paper submissions is […]
Dr Kay Hartley Born Burnley 2nd August 1929. Died Leeds 22nd May 2025 Dr Kay Hartley who was a founder member of the Study Group for Roman Pottery (SGRP), our friend and esteemed colleague, has died. She died peacefully in her beloved Leeds on May 22nd at the grand age […]
We are excited to announce details of the 2025 SGRP conference, which will be held from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th June! This will be an in-person conference at The Folk of Gloucester, with no live streaming, but all the talks will be filmed and shared online at a later […]
This year’s Roman Finds Group Spring Conference is being held in association with the University of Durham on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th April, at the Department of Archaeology, Durham University. The theme is ‘New Research on Roman Finds at the University of Durham and New Finds from the Region’. […]
A weekend conference is being planned for the weekend of Friday 6th June to Sunday 8th June based at the Folk of Gloucester, Southgate St, Gloucester. The conference is being organised by Jane Timby and Paul Tyers and it is intended that there will be an opportunity to have pottery […]
The 2024 SGRP Annual Conference will be held at Verulamium Museum, St Albans, on 15th June. In addition to papers on various aspects of Roman pottery, there will be an option to view the museum and its current exhibition, ‘Women doing everything, everywhere, all at once’, which focuses on some […]
Pottery is the subject of one of the sessions to be presented at the 30th annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Rome, 28-31 August. Papers are invited for the session ‘Divide and Conquer? Advancing Multiscale Theoretical Frameworks for Archaeological Ceramics in Northwestern Europe.’ Click the link for […]
The latest edition of the Journal of Roman Pottery Studies has been published. And it is something of a special volume, containing not only papers from the SGRP’s conference held at Atherstone, Warwickshire, in 2019, but also the conference held online with Newcastle University that celebrated the 50th anniversary of […]
Kay Hartley, founder member of the Study Group for Roman Pottery and international authority on mortaria, was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Newcastle University in a ceremony on 8th December. The honour, which was supported by the SGRP and Kay’s family, was awarded in recognition of Kay’s immense […]