 Good afternoon everyone and a very warm welcome on behalf of the Society of Antiquaries. I'm Martin Millett, I'm the incoming president of the society and it's my pleasure to be introducing this afternoon's proceedings and chairing the first couple of papers. This session on intertwined legacies, the legacies of colonialism and empire has been organised by our communications and events manager Daniel Wilson Higgins and our government's officer Linda Grant. Linda will be delivering the last of the short papers this afternoon. We're extremely grateful to them for putting this really exciting program together. Before we go into the program and listen to our fascinating panel of speakers, I'd just like to say a little bit about the society to place the proceedings this afternoon in context. Now the society was founded very long time ago in 1707 and since then has changed in a number of ways from small gentlemen's meeting club meeting a pub on the strand to one of be one of the foremost institutions concerned with the material evidence of the past. Archaeology, history, history of art and so forth in the UK and it's made up of an elected fellowship who are all passionate and interested in different aspects of the material past. The society's constantly changing and if you look back through its history, its emphasis, its approaches have changed. And that's one of the strengths that we respond to current interests and current needs, as well as respecting the traditions of the past. And that gives really the context for this event this afternoon. Anyone living in the Western world today will be intensely aware of the debates and interests in the way that our past has been presented and is used by different groups within society, and the material aspects of the past really reflect this. And the society, understanding some of the debates that have been going on in the contemporary world has itself been reflecting on its relationship with heritage histories, both in our own collections, and in the collections, thoughts and writings of people across the world, including our fellows. And this has encouraged us to think how we can better address these issues and better involve ourselves in debates that make the past relevant to today. One of the ways that we have been doing that is since 2020, we have had a small group forming an equality and diversity working group who have been thinking about how the society should think about these issues and change and develop its practice to reflect contemporary social needs. I'm delighted to see that Natalie Cohen and Amara Thornton from that group are here this afternoon and will be chairing bits of the proceedings. Their group has been working hard since 2020 to bring forward ideas and in a couple of weeks time, their proposals will be coming to the society's council for consideration about how we change and develop ourselves in the future. And this afternoon's presentations, in a sense, prefigure some of the sorts of things that we're hoping to develop as the society moves forward through this century. And in particular, this afternoon's event will be linked with two further ones planned for the autumn of this year, looking at intertwined legacies in the UK. And then in the spring of 2022, one that looks at the international perspectives. And I hope that these reflections and discussions will engage not only people who are currently interested and engage in the study of the past, but also show how the past is relevant to today and draw in a much wider spectrum of society to engage with these ideas and this material as the society moves forward. So we've got a very rich and warm conference this afternoon, some fascinating topics. I have to apologize myself because I'm only going to be able to be here throughout half the afternoon. And in a sense, this reflects the vibrancy of this topic because there's another event in Cambridge that I'm engaged with on the legacies of enslavement that clashes with this afternoon session. So my apologies to the speakers later on for not being here. Before we move to the first speaker, can I just make a couple of housekeeping announcements? Firstly, the speakers are going to talk for 20 to 25 minutes, and we've got five minutes for questions at the end. What I would ask people to do is if you've got a question, can you type it into the chat function on Zoom? And the person who's chairing that session will pick up questions and give them to the speaker in that five minutes discussion at the end of the paper. We're running from now until 4.10 when there will be a break until five o'clock. The webinar will remain open during that break so you don't need to sign out and then sign back in again. We will resume at 5pm with the keynote paper on why representation matters from Rashka Dave.