PROGRAMME FOR 2003

 

Lectures are normally held in the YMCA, Shakespeare Street,

Nottingham at 2.45 p.m. A bookstall is available from 2.15 p.m.

Further information on all events is published in the Newsletter,

sent free to members four times a year.

 

Saturday 11 January

The Nora Witham Lecture

Thurgarton Priory: the survival of the medieval fabric

Dr Jenny Alexander

 

Saturday 8 February

The Maurice Barley Lecture

The French Medieval Gentleman at Home

Professor Michael Jones

 

Saturday 8 March

Sundials, noon dials and meridian lines

Mr Douglas Bateman

(Secretary, British Sundial Society)

 

Saturday 26 April

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Epperstone

 

Saturday 10 May

South Nottmghamshire Churches

Leaders: Professor John Beckett and Dr Chris Brooke

 

Saturday 14 June

Renishaw Hall

Leader: Mr Peter Reddish

Thursday 3 July

Bolsover and Sutton Scarsdale

Leaders: Mr Philip Jones and Dr Trevor Foulds

 

Thursday 10 July

Evening Excursion: Hemlock Stone and Bramcote Walled Garden,

including the Ice House

Leaders: Professor John Beckett, Mrs Barbara Brooke

 

Saturday 6 September

Owthorpe and Colonel Hutchinson’s Garden

Leader: Dr Chris Salisbury

 

Saturday ii October

Meet the Ancestors

Mr Julian Richards

 

Tuesday 14 October

The Keith Train Lecture

(Further details will be in the Newsletter)

 

Saturday 1 November

ANNUAL LUNCHEON, Saracen’s Head, Southwell

Further details to be announced in thc newsletter

 

Saturday 8 November

The Nottinghamshire History Lecture

‘Continuity and change in the agricultural labour force in

Nottinghamshire: the Strelley estate from the 1850s to the First World

War’

Dr Nicola Verdon

 

Saturday 13 December

‘Your Body Belongs to Me’: The Role of the Coroner

Dr Nigel Chapman