We decided after a couple of years as a Group that is was a shame not to share the content of some of our meetings as so much work goes into them and so much information comes out of them! We have covered such topics as diverse as Magna Carta, Time, Lollards, Weather and some of the high profile families of the 15 C. Topics for each year are listed below with detailed reports under each year's tag.
All our meeting topics are researched by all our members from secondary sources such as printed books and the Internet. Penny, our secretary compiles the Reports from the information we all submit.
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN 2022
Lordship of Glamorgan; Caxton's Description of Britain; Gardens, Herbs and Medicine; The Fitzherbert families of Norbury, Somersal Herbert and the FitzHerberts of Tissington.
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN 2021
Lettice Knollys, mistress of Chartley; The Devereux Succession; Walter Devereux 1st earl of Essex in Ireland ; How the English came to Ireland
LOCKDOWN YEAR 2020
No Meetings
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN 2019
Events in the Fifteenth Century; Time
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN 2018
More on A monastery near You; The Stanley Family, the lesser known members; Lost in Castles DVD ( Sandal and Middleham) Holt Castle; Aliens in England; Gawain's Winter Journey.
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN 2017
Bread, a Civil Servant and a Lollard; Foreign Policy under Edward IV and Richard III; A Monastery Near You.
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN 2016
Non Literary Fifteenth Century Culture; Travel in the Middle Ages; Weather and Natural Disasters; The Beaufort Family - Part Two; Anti Clericalism and the Good Parliament; Lollardy; The English Claim to France
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN 2015
May Day Rituals with special reference to the York Corpus Christi plays; Magna Carta and its continuing importance in Law and Parliament; 600th Anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, two very different interpretations of Shakespeare's Henry V; The Beaufort Family - Part One.