Evans Commemoration

This page has copies of some of the papers given at the Society's seminar, held on 2 June 2009, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of John Evans's lecture to the Society on human antiquity, delivered on 2 June 1859.

Paper by Clive Gamble and Robert Kruszyinski: John Evans, Joseph Prestwich and the stone that shattered the time barrier (first published in Antiquity, to whom we are grateful for permission to reproduce this paper) (PDF file: 1.2Mb)

Paper by David Gaimster: Institutionalising Antiquity: Learned Societies and Museums after 1859 (Word file: 57Kb)

Paper by Arthur MacGregor: After Amiens: John Evans in France after 1859 (Word file: 68Kb)