The Joan Pye Lecture
Joan Pye is a former Trustee of the Roman Research Trust. On retiring as a Trustee, she offered a sum of money to establish a biennial lecture series to be given by a leading archaeologist or Romanist. The object of the lecture series is to help disseminate knowledge and appreciation of our Roman heritage.

Five lectures have now been given in the series. The first (13th June 2002) was delivered by Professor Barry Cunliffe on 'The Romans in Hampshire: Rural Settlement and Recent Archaeology', the second, 'Recent fieldwork at Roman Silchester' (21st June 2004), by Professor Mike Fulford, the third, 'Fifty years of Roman Inscriptions of Britain', by Dr. Roger Tomlin (Wolfson College, University of Oxford) (22nd June 2006) and the fourth, 'Understanding Britain as a Roman Imperial Possession', by Professor David Mattingly (University of Leicester) (24th June 2008). The most recent lecture was given on the 'Vindolanda tablets: texts and contexts' at the University Museum in Oxford on 27th March 2010.

The next Joan Pye lecture, to be given by Roger Bland, Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum, will take place in the Chancellor's Hall at Senate House at 5.30pm on Wednesday 28th November, 2012. The lecture title is: "How coin finds are changing the face of Roman Britain: the contribution of the Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme."

The David Smith Mosaic Archive
David J. Smith Mosaic Archive consists of books, periodicals, pamphlets, photographs and slides and represents a lifetime's research on ancient mosaics by David Smith, one of the foremost authorities on Roman mosaics. It therefore constitutes a valuable research resource. The Trust is committed to keeping the collection up-to-date by regular purchase of specialist mosaic publications.

In 1999 the archive, which is in the Trust's, care was transferred from Devizes Museum to the Library of the Institute of Classical Studies in the hope of making it more generally accessible to scholars. It is housed in Room 339 within the Library and can be consulted by request during opening hours.

Address:
ICS Library, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Tel. enquiries: 020 7862 8709
Website http://www.sas.ac.uk/icls/