London Branch Lectures

Lecturer

Title

Date

Paul Sparks

Battle of Barnet [last lecture under ‘auspices’ of Society, and taken as first under branch:

--/04/71

Kenneth Burr

‘Can we speak of a foreign policy of Richard III ?’

27/01/72

Valerie Giles

On her visit to America

23/02/72

Joyce Melhuish

Portraits of Richard III

29/03/72

Bruce Webster

Richard in the North

26/10/72

Anne Sutton

Literature on Richard III

15/03/73

Kenneth Burr

The Croyland Chronicle

09/05/73

Kenneth Burr

Croyland Chronicle

30/01/74

Jeremy Haslam

Baynard’s Castle

28/02/74

Terry Hands

Directing ‘Richard III’

20/03/74

Peter Openshaw

Fifteenth century English Music

25/04/74

Dr Carol Rawcliffe

Henry Duke of Buckingham & Richard III

06/11/74

Geoffrey Wheeler

Richard Recorded

30/01/75

Joyce Melhuish

The Yorkist connections with the low countries

27/02//75

Geoffrey Wheeler

Tape programme

27/03/75

Ian Ainsley

Plantagenet Heraldry

20/11/75

Geoffrey Wheeler

Pictures from an exhibition (NPG 1973)

28/01/76

Jack Edwards, ‘Nonsuch’

Late Plantagenet Costume

25/02/76

Joyce Melhuish

‘The road to Jerusalem, Rome and Compostela’

18/03/76

Pat Johnson

Medieval Cooking

27/01/77

Mr Puddy

Plantagenet Coinage

24/02/77

Dr Brooks

Medieval Medicine

10/03/77

Dr Pamela Tudor-Craig, Lady Wedgwood

‘A few points on the domestic and battle fronts’

14/05/77

Ian Ainsley

Medieval Stained and Painted Glass

24/11/77

Joyce Melhuish

Plantagenet Pilgrimage

26/01/78

Geoffrey Wheeler

‘Richard in the Media’

23/02/78

John Waller

Medieval arms and armour

21/03/78

Professor Charles Wood

Richard III – Bad History and Good Law

06/09/78

Elizabeth Nokes

Great Ricardian Tours – Part 1

23/11/78

J P Brooke-Little

17/01/79

Joyce Melhuish

‘The Evil Kings’

23/02/79

Elizabeth Nokes

The Great Ricardian Tour – Part 2

21/03/79

Dr J Feneley

Early Tudor Propaganda

23/10/79

Anne Sutton/Peter Hammond

The Coronation of Richard III

22/11/79

Herbert Trodd

Eltham Palace

22/01/80

Dr Phil Stone

Medieval Medicine

27/03/80

Alison Hanham

A psycho-history of Richard III

12/04/80

Joyce Melhuish

Experiences of Plantagenet France

28/11/80

Dr P Brandon

Fifteenth century England from a geographical point of view

29/03/81

Kenneth Burr

The religious background to the life and times of Richard III

26/02/81

Jack Leslau

The Holbein Rebuses

26/03/82

Richard Hutchings

A walk round Westminster Abbey

25/10/81

J A Speares

The struggle for English independence in the reigns of Richard III and Henry VII

28/01/82

Joyce Melhuish

AGM / Ricardian women

25/02/82

Mr Bennett

Heraldry

08/05/82

Eric Maple

Medieval witchcraft

04/11/82

Jack Edwards, ‘Nonsuch’

Late Plantagenet Costume

26/01/83

Sharon K Penman

‘Sun of York’

22/02/83

Balladmongers

‘Ceremony of King Richard III’

17/03/83

Joyce Melhuish

‘The Great Duchy of the Setting Sun’

28/04/83

Dr P Stone

Medicine and surgery in the middle ages

03/11/83

Jeremy Potter

Good King Richard ?

07/12/83

J V Armstrong

The Yorkist Ships

11/02/84

Anne Smith, Anne Sutton, Peter Hammond

Brains Trust

29/02/84

Richard Knowles

The Harwood alabasters

27/04/84

Elizabeth Nokes

Great/Small/Non-Ricardian Tours’

18/10/84

Clive Bartlett

Arms and Armour

05/12/84

Elizabeth Nokes

Great Ricardian Tour talk

17/01/85

Elizabeth Nokes

Great Ricardian Tour talk Part 2

28/02/85

Peter Begent

‘A Noble Place indeed’ – St George’s Chapel, Windsor

26/03/85

L Smith

Monumental Brasses

11/04/85

Antony Sher

‘Richard III’ and ‘The Year of the King’

08/06/85

Professor R Warwick

Anne Mowbray

21/09/85

Jill Van der Steen Jespers

The fate of the princes

14/11/85

Dr Aileen Ribiero

Dress in late Fifteenth century century England

04/12/85

Trevor Cooper

The Medieval church: a human view’

30/01/86

Joyce Melhuish

René of Anjou

28/02/86

Jack Leslau

The Holbein Rebuses

25/03/86

Captain Gregson, FNI, MRIN,FRSA

The story of the ‘Mary Rose’

10/04/86

Bruce Webster

Richard III: Myth or History ?

13/09/86

Peter Curnow

Some aspects of the household of the Dukes of Burgundy in the 14^th and Fifteenth century centuries

22/10/86

Brian Spencer, London Museum

Medieval pilgrim badges

27/11/86

Dr P Stone

The church at Fotheringhay

18/02/78

Anne Sutton

Attitudes to dress in the late Fifteenth century century

18/03/87

Kathryn Jones

Books of Hours

23/04/87

Dr Pamela Tudor-Craig, Lady Wedgwood

The Hours of Edward V

27/06/87

Dr Jane Bridgeman

Aspects of dress in Fifteenth century century Italy

17/11/87

Trevor Cooper

Medieval Churches: a human view

03/12/87

Dr John Gillingham

Richard III the case for the prosecution

26/01/88

Elizabeth Nokes

Great, small, non-Ricardian tours

17/02/88

Ann Ballantyne

Medieval wall paintings

17/03/88

Diana Kleyn

Perkin Warbeck

16/04/88

Anne Sutton

Worldly dress doth a man much worship

01/11/88

Mrs M Brown

Sources for the history of medieval gardens

01/12/88

Kathryn Jones

Books of Hours (II)

25/01/89

Dr P Stone

Bruges’s Beautiful Day

28/02/89

Dr Scott McKendrick

French and Netherlandish tapestry in the late middle ages

30/03/89

G Roland Smith

Medieval Calligraphy

19/04/89

Mr and Mrs T Gandy

Medieval Dance

26/09/89

Miss B Leigh

A guided tour of Bruges

07/11/89

Valerie Anand

‘Crown of Roses’ … and John Alcock

29/11/89

Rosemary Horrox

Richard III – servants and subjects

27/01/90

Kathryn Murton [neé Jones]

Psalters

21/02/90

Anne Sutton

‘What did Richard like ?’

03/04/90

Thelma Holt

Richard – Richard and theatre

24/04/90

Livia Visser-Fuchs

Richard in Holland

20/09/90

John McNeill

Lancastrian and Yorkist patronage at Windsor and Cambridge

29/11/90

Lesley Smith

Monumental Brasses

22/01/91

Joyce Melhuish

The Duke of Suffolk

26/02/91

Dr P Stone / Judith Bland

Fotheringhay / Cesare Borgia

14/03/91

John Cooper, Director of Education, National Portrait Gallery

Portrait Painting in England 1400-1547

23/04/91

Peter Begent

The Order of the Garter

09/05/91

Dr Rosemary Horrox

Richard III and the Duchy of Lancaster

08/06/91

Sheila & Terry Gandy

Medieval Dance

24/09/91

Rosemary Waxman

Information & news communication before the invention of printing

28/11/91

Rosemary Waxman

Information & news communication post Caxton

2./02/92

John Green

Medieval alabasters

21/03/92

Dr P Stone

Of golden trees and white roses: a Burgundian pageant

28/04/92

Mike Lee

Bells & Bell ringing – Fotheringhay

06/06/92

Jack Leslau

The fate of the princes in the Tower

15/09/92

Dr Chris Brooks

The dead prince and the Parker

13/11/92

Sue Taylor

‘Lady of Paston’ [play]

09/12/92

Rosemary Waxman

Caxton, Plantin et al

28/01/93

John Saunders

The History of the Society

24/02/93

John Cherry

The Middleham Jewel

23/03/93

Angela Kelsall

Raby Castle

20/04/93

C E J Smith

The Livery collar

19/06/93

Geoff Davidson

The Middleham Requieum

15/09/93

Peter Hammond

Was Richard III a man of his times ?

27/10/93

Dr Phil Stone / Robert Hamblin

Fotheringhay Hassocks / Livery Companies

24/01/94

John Saunders

The Battle of Stoke

16/02/94

Paul Trevor Bale

Bosworth Field – the continuing fight

22/03/94

Heather Falvey

The Manor of the Moor

28/04/94

Mike Loades

Medieval sword fighting

28/06/94

Jeremy Potter

Ireland and the House of York

28/01/95

Joyce Melhuish

Ralph Neville

28/02/95

Anne Sutton & Livia Visser-Fuchs

‘The cult of angels’

28/03/95

Chris Gravett

Castles and Sieges

11/04/95

John Clark

‘A horse, a horse ..’

01/07/95

Dr P Stone

Fotheringhay – The First George Awdry Memorial Lecture

04/11/95

Kay Stanniland

Costume 1250-1500

05/12/95

Gustav Milne

Discovering London’s ancient harbour

31/01/96

D & R Brooks

‘On stage with Shakespeare’

29/02/96

Kathryn Johnson

Medieval manuscript grotesques

27/03/96

Dr P Stone

First Joyce Meluish Memorial Lecture

09/11/96

Rosemary Waxman

‘Here be dragons’

27/02/97

Matthew Bennett

Bows, Battleaxes and Black Powder: Battlefield tactics in the Wars of the Roses

26/03/97

Dick Boustred

The Veres of Hedingham

22/04/97

Dr Mary Remnant

Musical Instruments in the Age of Richard III

28/05/97

Joyce Speares

Northumberland and Yorkshire – castles, abbeys, ruins..

02/06/97

Margaret Yates

Continuity and change in rural society: 1400-1600 in Berkshire [Trust Bursary lecture]

16/09/97

Kathryn Jones

‘More rude bits .. rude bits fight back’ MSS illuminations

25/11/97

John Saunders

Europe in the time of Richard III

29/01/98

Anne Sutton & Livia Visser-Fuchs

A gentleman of Flanders and the shade of Richard III

28/02/98

Dr Michelle Brown

Materials and Techniques of Manuscript Production

09/06/98

Sir Donald Harrison

The Princes in the Tower; an exercise in forensic palaeontology

15/09/98

Bill White, Museum of London Archaeology Service

Recent rediscoveries concerning the burial of Lady Anne Mowbray

25/11/98

John Ashdown-Hill

Eleanor Talbot/Butler

20/02/99

Ted Westervalt

The Woodvilles in the second reign of Edward IV, 1471-1483 [Trust Bursary lecture]

23/03/99

Peter Hammond & Bill White

‘Back to Basics’ The death of the princes in the Tower

19/05/99

Toni Mount

What of the medieval housewife ?

09/06/99

Angus Cooper

The Florentine Renaissance

14/09/99

Lesley Wynne-Davies

The Miracles of Henry VI

14/10/99

John Ashdown-Hill

St William of Norwich

22/11/99

Joyce Speares

Ricardian sites in Yorkshire

22/02/00

Greg O’Malley

The Order of St John and the Yorkist Kings [Trust Bursary lecture]

11/03/00

Toni Mount

Medieval merchants, artisans and men of business

18/05/00

Suzi Clarke

Medieval costume display demonstration & workshop

15/06/00

Chris Gravett

Bosworth, 1485

06/09/00

Bridget Hickey

Ricardian graphology

04/10/00

Anne Sutton & Livia Visser-Fuchs

‘There was ordained a fair hearse’ – funerals of the house of York

04/11/00

William Tyler

Plough lights and football

14/12/00

Rosemary Kelly

‘The Mirror of the Soul ?: Portraits of Richard III’

13/01/01

John Ashdown-Hill

The Lancastrian claim to the crown

14/02/01

Muriel B Jones

City Guilds and Livery Companies

17/05/01

Eleanor Quinton

The London drapers and the supply of the Great Wardrobe c. 1300-1500 [Trust Bursary lecture]

14/07/01

Jack Leslau

‘The Group Portrait of Sir Thomas More and his family’

11/08/01

Christian Liddy

'Relations between Bristol, York and the Crown, 1350-1400' [Trust bursary lecture]

13/10/01

Dr Anne Sutton/Livia Visser-Fuchs

John Vale’s Book

03/11/01

Kitty Bristow/Isolde Wigram

Refuting Jack Leslau

08/12/01

[Neil Trump]

[Society Website] [failed to attend, owing to train strike – discussion re possible meetings instead] / Peter & Carolyn Hammond’s ‘Card’

29/01/02

John Saunders

The Rise and Fall of the De La Poles

28/02/02

John Ashdown-Hill

The Dukes of Norfolk: Part 1 & Part II – in fact whole lecture

27/03/02

Murray Craig

The Freemen of the City of London

23/04/02

[Les Pierson] Dick Boustred

[Bruges Holy Blood] The Palace of Langley [LP cried off ill]

14/05/02

Peter Lee

‘Comptones Place’

18/06/02

P T Stone

Bruges and the Procession of the Holy Blood.

17/09/02

John Ashdown-Hill

‘Back to Basics’

24/10/02

William Tyler

Yorkist London

22/11/02

Michael Jones

Bosworth 1485: The Psychology of a battle

28/01/03

David Baldwin

Elizabeth Woodville – Royal sorceress ?

15/02/03

Anthony Ryan

Heraldry at Bosworth Field

08/03/03

Ann Wroe

Perkin Warbeck: a biography

26/04/03

Phil Stone

Medieval medicine & surgery

11/09/03

Robert Stephenson

Ancient Rite of Sanctuary

17/10/03

John Ashdown-Hill

‘Back to Basics’ [replace 24/10/02] ‘The real Richard III’

14/11/03

Kitty Bristow / Howard Gregg

‘Countess of Desmond’ / ‘Anglo-Irish Conflict, 1169-1541’

29/01/04

Phil Stone

Of golden trees and white roses – Bruges – Golden Tree

21/02/04

John Saunders

Richard III and Europe

20/03/04

Mark Ballard

The Marriage dispensation of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York

24/06/04

Helen Coombes

‘People and Piety: the Faithful of St Nicholas Shambles, c. 1450-1550’ [bursary lecture]

10/07/04

Anne Padfield

‘Medieval vernacular buildings’

25/09/04

Michael K Jones

The illegitimacy of Edward IV

21/10/04

John Ashdown-Hill

The Execution of the Earl of Desmond

04/11/04

Lesley Wynne-Davies

The Miracles of Henry VI

04/12/04

Peter Lee

‘Comptonesplace’

27/01/05

Livia Visser-Fuchs & John Ashdown-Hill

‘The danse macabre of the bones of Margaret of York’

26/02/05

Sean Cunningham

‘Twisting falsehoods and truths: Yorkist plotting and Richard III’s legacy under Henry VII’

22/03/05

Anthony Ryan

'The Heraldic Heritage of the Duchy of Burgundy’

23/04/05

Dr Phil Stone

First catch your asp ! deaths of medieval and other kings and queens ..

11/05/05

Lesley Wynne-Davies

Crime and Punishment in the Fifteenth Century ‘To Prove (or disprove) a Villain’

16/07/05

Val Pretlove

Medieval Churchyards of the City of London

21/10/05

Murray Craig

Old Men’s Dining Clubs or relevant vibrant charitable institutions with medieval origins ? – The Livery Companies of the City of London

25/11/05

John Ashdown-Hill

Richard III’s Christmas

12/12/05

Robert Stephenson

The Death Ritual in the Later Middle Ages

26/01/06

Dr Marian Campbell

‘Goldsmiths and Jewellery’

23/02/06

Ruth Singer

London silkwomen

29/04/06