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SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2025
Queen Berengaria of Navarre
[ZOOM PRESENTATION - start at 14:15 for 14:30] tickets on sale from December 2024
a talk by Dr Gabby Story
SATURDAY 1 MARCH 2025
Piracy and War in the Bristol Channel 1400-1700
Illustrated talk by Philip Ashford
SATURDAY 5 APRIL 2025
Sir Anthony Woodville : Lord Scales
Illustrated talk by Danielle Burton
SATURDAY 10 MAY 2025
Visit to Sudeley Castle in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Guided tour with Richard Goddard, chair of the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society
SATURDAY 7 JUNE 2025
STUDY DAY : The Wars of the Roses in the Severn Vale
Watson Hall, 65 Barton Street, Tewkesbury GL20 5PX
four fascinating talks by leading scholars (more detail soon):
* The Berkeleys during the Wars of the Roses by Dr Adam Dolling
* Wars of the Roses in the Severn Valley by Steve David
* The Herberts and the Wars of the Roses by Nathen Amin
* Life and Times of the Newport Ship by Dr Toby Jones
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 12/13 JULY 2025
Tewkesbury Medieval Festival
We participate in this superb annual event hosted by the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society. Full details will be available later.
SATURDAY 2 AUGUST 2025
Lady Eleanor Butler
Illustrated talk by Richard Goddard, Chair of the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society
SATURDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2025
Visit to Medieval Gloucester
Guided walk with Dr Andrew Armstrong
SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER 2025
BRANCH AGM
[ZOOM - start at 14:25 for 14:30]
SATURDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2025
The Sons of Simon de Montfort
Illustrated talk by Steve David
SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2025
Medieval Christmas
[ZOOM PRESENTATION - start at 14:15 for 14:30] tickets on sale from October 2025
talk by Kirstie Bingham of the John Moore Museum, Tewkesbury
PLEASE NOTE : ALL LIVE MEETINGS, UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED, WILL BE HELD AT THE EMMANUEL HALL, FAIRFIELD PARADE, LECKHAMPTON, GL53 7PJ
Meetings commence at 2:30 pm with the exception of field visits which are by arrangement, and Zoom presentations. For meetings where there is an outside speaker a charge of £5 will be made to offset costs [ £6 for non-Branch members ]. When there is no visiting speaker fee there will be a general charge of £1 per person, again, to offset cost.
NB. speaker fees are due to increase from January 2025
programme page updated 8 November 2024