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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bookings for this year’s SGRP conference are now OPEN! The conference will be taking place both online and in person at Milton Keynes Museum on Saturday 14th October. For those attending in person, you can find the conference booking form here: SGRP_Milton_Keynes_2023_registration_form If you’d like to attend online, then CLICK […]
Roman pottery is the theme of a session of the forthcoming Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC), which will be held in Exeter between the 27th and 29th April.
This year’s Study Group for Roman Pottery conference will be held in Leicester on Saturday 18th June 9.30-4.30 at College Court Conference Centre, Knighton Rd, Leicester LE2 3UF The conference is ‘hybrid’, with in-person and online options available. The cost to members for in-person attendance on the day is £35, […]
The AHRC-funded Arch-I-Scan Project (School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester) is in the process of developing a state-of-the-art image-recognition and machine-learning service which can identify Roman pottery vessels and sherds. The service will ‘learn’ from photos of ceramics in collections around England, including those from MOLA (Museum […]
The programme and speakers’ abstracts of the Study Group for Roman Pottery’s 50th Anniversary and first virtual annual conference, which will be hosted via Zoom by Newcastle University on the 2nd-3rd July 2021, are available to download: SGRP 50 Conference Programme and Abstracts