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SATURDAY 7th FEBRUARY 2026

Mortimers Cross Battlefield Project 

[ZOOM PRESENTATION - start at 14:15 for 14:30] tickets now on sale for £6.00pp

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mortimers-cross-battlefield-project-tickets-1980371317922

The Battle of Mortimers Cross is one of the lesser-known battles of the Wars of the Roses and its location has never been truly identified. In 2015, Historic England contacted the Battlefields Trust suggesting that the Trust sponsor a project to try and identify the site of the battle and to improve its interpretation. Martin Hackett and Ian Maddox from the Battlefields Trust discuss the project.

talk by Martin Hackett & Ian Maddox of the Mortimers Cross Battlefield Project

SATURDAY 7th MARCH 2026

Ham Green Pottery and Dundry Stone: North Somerset Medieval Maritime Trade 1150-1250

A fascinating fusion of archaeology and history provides a holistic approach into understanding aspects of the medieval mind, belief, business, trade, politics, war and cultural shift in the Bristol Channel region around 1200 A.D

talk by Philip Ashford

SATURDAY 4th APRIL 2026

Battle of Tewkesbury Revisted

more detail to follow in January

talk by Steve Goodchild, Tewkesbury Battlefield Society

WEDNESDAY 15th APRIL 2026

FIELD VISIT to Gloucester Records Archive

£5.00 per person

A guided visit to the records archive in Gloucester. Places are strictly limited, please contact the Treasurer to reserve your space, payment by cash, cheque or BACS bank transfer. Parking is also limited on site so we ask that attendees arrive by public transport or car pooling arrangement.

Specific timing will be published in the new year. 

WEDNESDAY 19th MAY 2026

FIELD VISIT to Chepstow Castle, Walls & Alleyways

Cost  and timingsTBC

A guided walk around the stunning medieval highlights of Chepstow. Further details, including charges, will be published in January/February. 

SATURDAY 13 JUNE 2026

JOINT STUDY DAY WITH SOMERSET BRANCH: Disappearing Kings : Death or Deposition? 

Manvers Street Baptist Church, Manvers Street, Bath  BA1 1JW

tickets (£20pp) now on sale via Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1600474435119?aff=oddtdtcreator

or by cheque/BACS/cash via our branch Treasurer: dick.manns3105@gmail.com

Carelessness or misfortune? Kingly depositions in the Late Middle Ages

Professor Nigel Saul

A King's Lament, the Strange Afterlife of Edward of Caernarvon

Stephen David

Of the Manner of Richard’s Death I Know Nothing

Matt Lewis

The Princes in the Tower: How History's Greatest Cold Case Was Solved

Philippa Langley

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY mid JULY 2026

Tewkesbury Medieval Festival  TBC

The Society will be organising the stand at this superb annual event hosted by the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society. 

 

SATURDAY 1st AUGUST 2026

The Eyewitness Reporter – Domenico Mancini

[ZOOM PRESENTATION- start at 14:15 for 14:30] tickets on sale from June 2026

Annette Carson examines Mancini’s unique eyewitness account of the unfolding of history as viewed by a foreign onlooker. Mancini was certainly at pains to cast a pall over the Yorkist regime in England, but he also made a detailed record of seismic events as they developed in 1483, and wrote them up within a few months. Annette has not only removed the bias of the old 1936 translation, but discusses new insights revealed by her own original research.

Annette Carson has had a lifelong interest in Richard III. Among her other publications are six Ricardian books, the first being Richard III: The Maligned King (2008, expanded edition in 2023). She preserves her independence as a researcher, writer and lecturer, concentrating on topics and angles previously unexplored. She is a Fellow of the Richard III Society, and was a member of the team led by Philippa Langley that found the king’s grave in 2012.

Illustrated talk by Annette Carson

SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2026

Medieval Sanctuary

A talk by Fr Charles Whitney

SATURDAY 3rd OCTOBER 2026

The Siege of London

A talk by Richard Goddard, Chair of the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society

WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2026 

BRANCH AGM

[ZOOM  - start at 19:15 for 19:30]

There is no talk planned at this short meeting but branch member participation is essential for quoracy to approve any changes to branch arrangements. 

SATURDAY 7th NOVEMBER 2026 

Good Men and True or a World of Misplaced Men

Who were the participants in the Simnel and Warbeck Rebellions and what does it tell us?

Illustrated talk by Steve David

SATURDAY 5th DECEMBER 2026

Tapestries of Court & City

[ZOOM PRESENTATION - start at 14:15 for 14:30] tickets on sale from October 2026

Examining the growth in complexity of crafts and craftwork in Medieval Europe, through analysis and reflection on crafts people, the structures of associations such as guilds, and craftwork itself.

illustrated talk by Professor Katherine Wilson, University of Chester 

PLEASE NOTE : ALL LIVE MEETINGS, UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED, WILL BE HELD AT THE EMMANUEL HALL, FAIRFIELD PARADE, LECKHAMPTON, GL53 7PJ

Meetings (Zoom and live) commence at 2:30 pm with the exception of field visits which are by arrangement. Any change to this time will be highlighted. 

For meetings where there is an outside speaker a charge of £6 will be made to offset costs [£7.50 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.

Zoom charges are £6.00pp for members and guests alike. Links to Zoom presentation ticket sales will be posted here on the programme as they become available. They can also be booked offline via our branch Treasurer. 

programme page updated 12 January 2026