Saturday 15 November 2025 

From Hunters to Farmers: The story of stone age Leicestershire and Rutland.
Speaker: Mathew Morris

Leicestershire and Rutland have a fascinating and nationally significant prehistoric past dating back some 500,000 years. Join archaeologist Mathew Morris from University of Leicester Archaeological Services and hear the story of the first people to live in Britain, from early hominids and extinct animals to ice age hunters, early artwork and the first farmers.

Mathew Morris is a University of Leicester graduate who has worked for ULAS since 2004, excavating a wide range of rural and urban archaeology across the Midlands, from the prehistoric period through to the Industrial Revolution. His interests include urban archaeology and Roman and medieval archaeology, and he has spent much of his career digging up Leicester. In 2012, Mathew supervised the successful archaeological search for the lost grave of King Richard III. He has co-authored Life in Roman and Medieval Leicester (2021) and three popular books on Leicester archaeology, Visions of Ancient Leicester (2011), Richard III: The King under the Car Park (2013) and Life in the Roman World: Roman Leicester(2018). He is currently Project Officer for ULAS.