A.R.A. Officers
Anthony Beeson (left), ARA Archivist, and Prof Andrew Poulter (right), guest speakers at the 2005 AGM. Photo © G. Soffe Retiring Treasurer Don Greenwood (left) receiving a presentation from ARA Director Bryn Walters (right). Photo © J. Senior
	Chairman and Bulletin Editor		Grahame Soffe		Grahame worked with the Royal Commission on historical Monuments for England/English Heritage as a professional archaeologist for 20 years, specialising in field and aerial survey. He has been involved in numerous national and local surveys and is co-director of the research and excavation project on the Iron Age and Roman temple complex on Hayling Island. He now lectures on archaeological courses at several colleges and universities and is much involved in research, editing and writing up of excavation reports.
	Director and Secretary		Bryn Walters		Bryn specialises in Romano-British archaeology with emphasis on villa interpretation. He graduated in archaeology from the University of Wales, Cardiff, and has subsequently excavated widely in Britain. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Bath where he teaches on Roman Britain and Ancient Egypt.
	Treasurer		Dr. David Evans		David first became interested in Rome as a schoolboy and has maintained that interest ever since. His research interests are in Romano-British societies and the archaeology of the central Welsh Marches. He is a retired company director with an MA in Archaeology and Heritage from the University of Leicester.
	Membership Secretary		Don Greenwood		Don's Roman interests are Hadrian's Wall and the North, and additionally Egypt and Cyprus. He is a retired Bank Statistician and was previously Honorary Treasurer of the ARA since its launch. He first became interested in things Roman when taking economics at Newcastle on Tyne University in the mid 1960s.
	Research Advisor		Professor Martin Henig, FSA		Martin Henig lectures in Roman Art in Oxford University, where he is a Fellow of Wolfson College. Books he has written include 'The Art of Roman Britain'(1995) and 'The Heirs of King Verica' (2002) as well as monographs on Greek and Roman engraved gemstones and Romano-British sculpture. He is one of the editors of the catalogue of the exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum,'Constantine the Great. York's Roman Emperor' (2006).
	Archivist		Anthony Beeson		Anthony has been Art Librarian at Bristol Central Library since 1972, having previously worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art library. He is a noted classical iconographer and has written and lectured on Romano British art. His interests encompass ancient sculpture, mosaics, painting, furnishings and architecture. In 2000, he reassembled the 'lost' Orpheus mosaic from Newton St. Loe in the entrance hall at Bristol City Museum. Anthony has been passionately interested in ancient art since childhood.