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After World War II, Ralph served as the first female chair of the Society of Archivists (1957–1960). She was General Secretary for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 38 years, [3] Assistant Editor of the Bristol Record Society from 1946 and an active member of Bristol civic and conservation societies. [2] 'Miss Ralph ...
The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society is a learned society concerned with the history and antiquities of the City of Bristol and the historic county of Gloucestershire. It was founded on 21 April 1876; and is a registered charity, number 202014.
Sir John died at Bristol in 1589 and was buried in Bristol Cathedral. His wife died 14 years later and erected the altar tomb which survives, displaying the recumbent effigy of herself (originally with two kneeling male figures, missing since the monument was dismantled in 1861), with the armorials of both her husbands, Strangways and Young ...
Boyle is the Senior Curator of Archaeology and World Cultures at Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives, former Chair of the Society for Museum Archaeology, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. [2] She was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 2 February 2015. [3]
The Clifton Antiquarian Club is an archaeological society founded in 1884 in Bristol to investigate antiquities in the surrounding areas of western England and southern Wales. The 28 years of research undertaken by the members and associates of the original society fill the first seven volumes of the Proceedings of the Clifton Antiquarian Club ...
Alan Saville (31 December 1946 – 19 June 2016) was a British archaeologist and museum curator. [1] [2] [3]Saville is best known for his "ground-breaking"' [2] and "meticulous" [1] excavations of the Neolithic Hazleton North long barrow near Hazleton in Gloucestershire, undertaken between 1979 and 1982.
Bristol was held by Geoffrey de Montbray, Bishop of Countances, one of the knights who accompanied William the Conqueror. William ordered stone castles to be built so it is likely that the first parts of Bristol Castle were built by Geoffrey in his reign. After the Conqueror's death (1087), Geoffrey joined the rebellion against William Rufus. [12]
Sir John Evans KCB FRS FSA FRAI (17 November 1823 – 31 May 1908) was an English antiquarian, geologist and founder of prehistoric archaeology.. Between 1884 and 1908 he was curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, becoming the founding member of the British Academy in 1902 and professor of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909.