{"id":7378,"date":"2021-02-25T12:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T12:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?page_id=7378"},"modified":"2021-02-25T12:42:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T12:42:23","slug":"welcome-to-bas-150","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/welcome-to-bas-150\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to BAS 150"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we move into 2021 The Berkshire Archaeological Society reaches its 150<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary.\u00a0\u00a0This is a remarkable achievement for any organisation let alone a voluntary society like ours.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Society was founded in 1871 as \u2018The Berkshire Archaeological and Architectural Society\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0As the Society\u2019s exhibition due to tour later this year, \u2018The Berkshire Archaeological Society: 150 years of contributing to Berkshire\u2019s archaeology\u2019 will show during that time the Society has made a tremendous contribution to archaeology in Berkshire not only through its excavations but also through compiling records of historic monuments throughout the county, campaigning for the establishment of a county records office, now \u2018The Berkshire Record Office\u2019 and so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today the Society continues to thrive through research work, geophysics surveys, excavations, report writing and publishing, production and publication of \u2018The Berkshire Archaeological Journal\u2019, social events, visits, an annual lecture series, an annual conference reviewing recent archaeological discoveries in Berkshire (known as \u2018Day School\u2019), outreach work in schools and at local events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the advent of the vaccine against Covid-19, the Society can hopefully look forward to the return of visits, social events and outreach work in the summer, a celebratory garden party in June, a conference (Day School) in October and a dinner in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Alison McQuitty and Maggie Smith, Co-chairs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we move into 2021 The Berkshire Archaeological Society reaches its 150th\u00a0anniversary.\u00a0\u00a0This is a remarkable achievement for any organisation let alone a voluntary society like ours.\u00a0\u00a0 The Society was founded in 1871 as \u2018The Berkshire Archaeological and Architectural Society\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0As the Society\u2019s exhibition due to tour later this year, \u2018The Berkshire Archaeological Society: 150 years of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/welcome-to-bas-150\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to BAS 150<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7378","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7380,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7378\/revisions\/7380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}