A CLUB dedicated to exploring Hampshire’s medieval history through landscape and archaeology has announced its new season of lectures and conferences.

Hampshire Field Club and Archaeology Society will host two conference and AGM sessions in November with lectures and events lined up February.

Four speakers will address the Hampshire’s medieval landscape in a regional context at the club’s landscape conference and AGM at Peter Symonds College, Winchester on November 8. Highlights include Southampton University’s David Hinton, who will discuss the impact of religion on Anglo-Saxon Hampshire, and Dr Simon Roffey, of the University of Winchester, who will delve into the history of medieval hospitals including the leper hospital near Morn Hill.

The archaeology conference will tackle conflict and defence, from Neolithic battles to the First World War, on Saturday, November 29 at the college’s Science Lecture Theatre.

Speakers include Tony Wilmott of English Heritage, Winchester University’s Nick Thorpe and WYG Group’s principal archaeologist Martin Brown.

On October 24 Kitty Hauser will travel from Australia to give a talk in memory of field archaeologist and aerial photography pioneer O.G.S. Crawford, discussing his work, politics and photographic records of Nazi Germany.

On February 20 2015, economic historian Dr Jean Morrin will give a lecture on Victoria County History, a publisher founded in 1899, with special reference to Hampshire’s decision to rewrite the project’s archaic records of county parishes and towns. The lecture will take place at Hampshire Record Office from 8pm.

Ticket prices vary. For more information visit fieldclub.hants.org.uk.