Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 2019–2020

ABSTRACT

Since the last AGM, Dr Lynn Pitts has retired from her role as Publications Officer. In the autumn, the Society had held a number of events, including a conference on Germanicus, a book launch for Peter Wiseman's House of Augustus and its annual conference at the British Museum with the Association for Roman Archaeology on ‘Roman Temples in Britain and Gaul Recent Discoveries and Interpretations'. Since Christmas, before the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to face-to-face events, the Society was pleased to welcome Professor Mireille Corbier to deliver the M.V. Taylor Lecture, and in March (just before the lockdown) we held a joint event with the Hellenic Society on the topic of ‘Animals in the Ancient World', with Malcolm Heath, Emily Kneebone and John Pearce. Without these two exceptional items, the Society's cash flow would have been a negative £43,000 rather than a positive £78,000. [...]the net gain on our investments, managed by Newton Investment Management, was £219,000 in 2019 (a gross return of 19%).