The Society hosts three meetings each year, in January, April and October At each meeting there are two invited academic speakers speaking on a variety of topics (as can be seen by the details of past meetings below). Meetings are currently held via Zoom and a link is sent out in advance to members for each meeting, and non-members can apply to the secretary for the link. Meetings were formerly held in person at the University of Liverpool and Keele University, but have not been held in this way since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic.
Members attend free, and non-members are charged £5 (for full details of charges see the membership page). The charges help defer the costs incurred by the speakers.
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS:
Zoom Meeting
Saturday 29 October 10.30-15.00
Dr Daniel Booker (Department of History, University of Bristol)
‘The Medieval Records of the Earldom-Duchy of Lancaster: Problems and Possibilities.’
Prof. Louise Wilkinson (School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln)
‘A Rebel Countess and the Second Barons’ War: The Household Roll of Eleanor de Montfort for 1265′.
RECENT MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY:
Zoom Meeting
Saturday 30 April 2022
Dr Sethina Watson (Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, University of York)
‘Archbishop Walter de Gray (1215-1255) and his register’
Zoom Meeting
Saturday 29 January 2022
Dr Rhiannon Sandy (Swansea University)
‘Medieval Apprenticeship Indentures.’
Zoom Meeting
Saturday 23 October 2021, 10.45-15.00
Dr Marigold Norbye (UCL)
‘Diagrams for history and propoganda: genealogical trees and chronicles of the kings of France in the Hundred Years’ War.’
Sian Foster
‘Gregory, Whitby and St Gallen in St Gallen 567: the enigma of survival’.
Zoom Meeting
Saturday 17 April 2021
Dr Nigel Tringham (Keele University)
‘Penitence and Piety: the death-bed grants of Ranulf earl of Chester (d. 1153)’
Dr Sara Charles (Institute of Historical Research)
‘An Introduction to Medieval Ink’
Zoom Meeting
Saturday 30 January 2021
Dr Vanessa Greatorex
‘Assault, Debt and Defamation: Chester’s Medieval Court Records’.
Dr Simon J. Harris (Hon. Res. Fellow, Keele University)
‘Reading Military Records: The War of Saint Sardos, 1324-5’.
The Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool
Saturday 1 February 2020
Dr John Hunt (University of Birmingham)
‘Lordship and Community: Religious Patronage in Berkswell Church, Warwickshire’.
Dr Sophie Therese Ambler (University of Lancaster)
‘Simon de Montfort and England’s First Revolution, 1258-65’
The Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool
Saturday 26 October 2019
Dr Lucy Hennings (University of Oxford)
‘The King’s Clerks: Transforming Ideas of Kingship in the Reign of Henry III’.
The Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool
Saturday 6 April 2019
Nigel Coulton
‘As the Bishop said to the Nun. Relations between Roger Northburgh, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in the Fourteenth Century, and the Nunneries in his Diocese as revealed by the correspondence in his Register’.
Dr Lisa Liddy
‘Creating Emotion in York Wills, 1400-1600: new methodologies for testamentary material’.
The Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool
Saturday 26 January 2019
Dr Paul Booth (Hon. Senior Research Fellow in History, Keele University)
‘Success or Failure? Criminal Justice in Later Fourteenth-Century Cheshire’.
Dr Simon J. Harris (Hon. Research Fellow, University of Keele)
‘The Cheshire Gentry and Islam in the Late C16th: New Discoveries at Adlington Hall’
The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Saturday 20 October 2018
Dr Jonathan Mackman
‘The ‘unfortunate’ fraudster: Thomas de Boulton and the Yorkshire lay subsidy of 1332′.
The Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University
Saturday 14 April 2018
Dr Samantha Harper (University of Winchester)
‘Kingship, Court and Society: The Chamber Books of Henry VII and Henry VIII’.
Dr Helen Killick (University of Reading)
‘The Writing of Petitions in Late Medieval England’
The Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool
Saturday 27 January 2018
Ashleigh Hawkins (Archivist, Dean & Chapter of Canterbury)
‘The Cheshire Tellers’ Bills and the Tellers of the Exchequer who created them’.
Dr Catherine Casson (University of Manchester)
‘Location, Location, Location: Property Speculation in Medieval English Towns, c. 1250-c. 1400′.
Dr Helen Killick (University of Reading)
‘The Writing of Petitions in Late Medieval England’.
The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Saturday 21 October 2017
Dr Paul Dryburgh (The National Archives, Kew)
‘The Bruce Invasion of Ireland 1315-18: the view from England’.
The Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University
Saturday 22 April 2017
Dr Nigel Tringham (Keele University)
‘St Edith of Polesworth and Tamworth: the medieval cult’.
Dr Charles Insley (University of Manchester)
‘The Mercians, Merfynion and the Anglo-Welsh frontier, 820-920′.
The Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool
Saturday 21 January 2017
Dr Danna Messer
‘Deconstructing ‘Queenship’ in the Native Sources of Medieval Wales’
Dr Simon J. Harris (Hon. Research Fellow, University of Keele)
‘Renewed work on the Medieval Records of the Channel Islands’
The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Saturday 15 October 2016
Dr James Freeman (University of Cambridge)
‘Ranulf Higden’s Polychronicon‘
The Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University
Saturday 9 April 2016
Dr Anthony Mansfield (Keele University)
‘Lordship Records in the Norman Period’
Professor Graeme White (University of Chester)
‘The Cheshire Magna Carta’.
The Sydney Jones Library, The University of Liverpool
Saturday 23 January 2016
Dr Paul Booth (Hon. Senior Research Fellow in History, Keele University)
‘The Cheshire Plea Rolls’
The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Saturday 24 October 2015
Dr Bronach Kane (University of Cardiff)
‘Reading Church Records for Social and Cultural History’.
Keele University, Saturday 18 April 2015
Dr Jonathan Mackman & Dr Jessica Lutkin (University of York)
‘England’s Immigrants’.
Professor Ann Curry (University of Southampton)
‘Agincourt 1415-2015’.