September 2022
23rd AGM of the Flamsteed Astronomy Society + The Talk You Probably Shouldn’t Watch: A Guide To The End Of The Universe By Dr Greg Brown.
Dear Members, Notice is hereby given of our 23rd Annual General Meeting which will be held on Monday 12th September 2022 at 7pm in the Lecture Theatre of the National Maritime Museum. The AGM + Talk will also be streamed live via Zoom to those who cannot make it in person. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everything that has a beginning must also have an end, and the Universe appears to be no exception. From the stars in the sky through to the very atoms we are made of, all things have a cosmic sell by…
Find out more »Archeoastronomy: A brief history By Professor Clive Ruggles
Archaeoastronomy grew out of interpretations of Stonehenge and other British prehistoric monuments in the 1960s as "ancient observatories" — ideas that generated a huge wave of popular interest but also proved highly controversial among academics, pitting astronomers against archaeologists as they reached fundamentally different conclusions on the basis of the same evidence. More than half a century later, archaeoastronomy—the study of beliefs and practices concerning the sky in the past—is pursued by academics around the world, although for many it…
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