Education and Learning
The Triennial Conferences
Introduction
2012 Burleigh Court Conference
Centre, University of Loughborough
2008 Royal Agricultural College,
Cirencester
2005 Queens’ College, University of Cambridge
2002 University of York
1999 Magdalen College, University
of Oxford
1996 University of Kent
1993 University College, University
of Durham
1990 College of Ripon and York St
John
1987 Christ Church College, University
of Oxford
1984 Jesus College,
University of Cambridge
1981 Trinity College, University
of Oxford
2011 Triennial Conference Postponed to 2012
Every three years the Society holds a major conference, with up to 150 participants, addressed by leading specialists in late medieval history. The first conference was held in 1981and the next will be held in 2012, venue and theme to be announced.
The 2008 conference was held at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester and was entitled England's Greatest Mystery: The Princes in the Tower.
The format for the conferences is that they take place over a long weekend (Friday to Sunday) on a UK university campus. Delegates can be residential or non-residential and there is free time on the Saturday afternoon for delegates to explore any local places of interest. Details of previous conferences are included below.
The conferences offer an exciting opportunity for delegates to meet each other and members of the academic community.
Triennial
Conference 20-22 April 2012
Bosworth and the Battlefield Experience
The venue for our next conference will be Burleigh Court Conference Centre at the University of Loughborough. This is a four star hotel with full conference facilities and disability access.
The venue has the advantage of having good rail access and being reasonably close to Bosworth.
Confirmed
programme to date:-
Glenn Foard - the recent discoveries at Bosworth
Anne Curry - the documentary evidence for the battle
Livia Visser-Fuchs - Juan de Salazar, the Spanish mercenary who
fought for Richard III
Other speakers are yet to be confirmed, but they will speak on topics that will focus on recent discoveries and ideas about the battle of Bosworth and English mediaeval warfare.
Saturday afternoon – visit to Bosworth
For further information please contact the Society Research Officer or see the March 2011 Bulletin.
2008 Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester
The Society chose a west-country venue for its 10th triennial conference. The proceedings from the conference are being published in the Bulletin (Summer 2008 through to Spring 2009). For a report on the conference click here.
The programme was divided into four sections with a closing debate chaired by Prof. Tony Pollard.
Perspective Anne Sutton set the scene and described what took place between April to June 1483. Livia Visser-Fuchs spoke about the continental response to the rumour of the murder of the princes.
Suspects Anne Crawford discussed the dukes of Buckingham and Norfolk. Sean Cunningham looked at Henry Tudor and his adherents and the session closed with Lesley Boatwright looking at The Man Himself, Richard III.
Remains Peter Hammond looked at the 'alternative' bones and Bill White discussed whose remains were in the urn which is housed in Westminster Abbey.
Survivors? Gordon Smith, Ann Wroe and David Baldwin examined the respective careers of Lambert Simnel, Perkin Warbeck and Richard of Eastwell.
The Debate gave Lesley Boatwright the opportunity to talk about a theory she had developed regarding the fate of the princes whilst Jennie Powys-Lybbe advocated the guilt of Margaret Beaufort as the perpetrator of the demise of the princes.
2005
Queens’ College, University of Cambridge
Friends and Foes: Richard III and the East Anglian Magnates
After a gap of twenty-one years the Society returned to Cambridge for the ninth triennial conference. Click here for a report of the conference. The Proceedings of the conference will be published under the editorship of Dr Rosemary Horrox and will include two additional papers from Dr Horrox and Dr Sean Cunningham (TNA). For a report on the conference click here.
The programme was as follows:
David Dymond talked on Late-Medieval Gilds of East Anglia by David Dymond. He has a particular interest in gilds which were an integral part of life in both urban and rural areas of late medieval England. David has published many works on the history of Suffolk and his book History and Archaeology: A Plea for Reconciliation sets out his views on the relationship between the two disciplines.
Rosemary Horrox (Fitzwilliam College Cambridge) talked on the de la Pole family who rose from their merchant origins in Hull to marriage into the royal family in only a few generations. John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, was Richard III's likely heir-designate at the time of Bosworth. Rosemary has spoken at previous conferences including Cambridge in 1984.
Rowena Archer (Brasenose College Oxford) talked about the Mowbray family. She has carried out much research on the nobility of later medieval England, in particular the dukes of Norfolk, and on medieval noblewomen. Rowena is currently working on a new edition of J. Nichols, A Collection of all the Wills of the Kings and Queens of England and on a biography of Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk.
Anne Crawford (formerly with TNA) talked on the Howard family who eventually inherited the Mowbray dukedom of Norfolk. Anne edited The Howard Household Books, 1462-71 and 1481-83 which the Richard III and Yorkist History Trust published in 1992.
James Ross talked about the staunchly Lancastrian de Vere family. James, the son of the late Charles Ross, was the recipient of the Society's Edda Curry bursary for postgraduate studies. He has successfully completed his doctorate and is currently working on the History of Parliament project.
To link the East Anglian theme more specifically with our host city Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs talked about Richard III and his connections with Cambridge. Anne and Livia of course need no introduction to Ricardians. They have been popular speakers at many of our previous conferences.
2002 University of York
Richard III: Man and King
Keith
Dockray. William Shakespeare, Richard III and Historians
A revised historiography of Richard III and his times.
Christopher
Gravett. Richard III as a Military Leader
An assessment of Richard's military career, both as duke and king.
Michael
K. Jones. Richard III: The French Connection
An assessment of Richard III's foreign policy.
Joanna
Laynesmith. The Women in Richard's Life
Looking at the women who shared Richard's life and their role in society
and in the family.
R.B. Dobson. Richard
III and the City of York
An assessment of Richard's relationship with the citizens of York, both
as duke and king.
1999 Magdalen College, University
of Oxford
Yorkist History, Past, Present and Future
A.J.
Pollard. Principle not Patronage?
The new approach to fifteenth-century studies
Rosemary
Horrox. Centre and Localities:
The balance of power in the late fifteenth century
Colin Richmond. Fastolf's Will
Ralph Griffiths. Richard III: Heat and light
Discussion session:
The Role of the Richard III Society in Fifteenth-Century Studies
1996 University of Kent at
Canterbury
Everyday Life in Yorkist England
The Proceedings of the conference were published, with additional chapters, as Daily Life in the Late Middle Ages, ed. by Richard Britnell, 1998. Click here for on-line review.
Anne F.Sutton. Late Fifteenth-Century Costume
Richard Britnell. Everyday Urban Life
Matthew Davies. London City Guilds and Welfare
Jennifer Ward. Townswomen and their Households
Clive Burgess.
Belief and Behaviour:
Life in the urban parish in the late fifteenth century
1993 University College, Durham
The North of England in the Time of Richard III
R.B. Dobson. The North in the Fifteenth Century: Church and politics
Anthony Goodman. Northumbrian Society in the Later Fifteenth Century
Rosemary Hayes. A Calendar of Ancient Indictments for the North of England, 1461–1509
Christine Newman. The Economic and Social History of Northallerton 1470–1540
Jonathan Hughes. Private Prayer in the North of England with Special Reference to the Piety of Richard III
Henry Summerson. Carlisle and the English West March in the Later Fifteenth Century
Alexander Grant. Richard III and Scotland
1990
College of Ripon and York St John
Life in the Fifteenth Century
The Proceedings were published as Fifteenth-Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England, ed. by Rosemary Horrox, 1994. Click here for on-line review.
Rosemary Horrox. Fifteenth-Century Attitudes in the Age of Richard III
A.J. Pollard. Nobility and Gentry
Edward Powell. Law and Justice
Gerald Harriss. The King and his Subjects
Margaret Aston. Prayers for Princes: Serving souls in the fifteenth century
Philip Lindley. The Artist in Late Medieval England
David Palliser. Urban Society
Peter Jones. Information and Science in the Fifteenth Century
1987 Christ Church College, University
of Oxford
Yorkist and Tudor England
Rowena Archer. Katherine Neville
Ian Rowney. Changing Perceptions of Monarchy
J.J.G. Alexander. Flemish Manuscripts
Christine Weightman. Margaret of Burgundy
Livia Visser-Fuchs. The Short Version of the 'Arrival' of Edward IV
Alexandra Sinclair. The Beauchamp Pageant
David Baldwin. The Battle of Stoke
1984
Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Quincentenary Conference
Proceedings published as Richard III: Loyalty, Lordship and Law, ed. by P W Hammond, 1986, rev. ed. 2000. Click here for on-line review.
Anne Crawford. The Private Life of John Howard: A study of a Yorkist lord, his family and household
Michael K. Jones. Richard III and Lady Margaret Beaufort: A reassessment
Keith Dockray. Richard III and the Yorkshire Gentry
Anne F. Sutton. 'A Curious Searcher for Our Weal Public': Richard III, piety, chivalry and the concept of the 'good prince'
R.H. Helmholtz. The Sons of Edward IV: A canonical assessment of the claim that they were illegitimate
P.W. Hammond and W.J. White. The Sons of Edward IV: A re-examination of the evidence on their deaths and on the bones in Westminster Abbey
Norman Macdougall. Richard III and James III, Contemporary Monarchs, Parallel Mythologies
Colin Richmond. 1485 and All That, or What was Going On at the Battle of Bosworth?
1981 Trinity College, University of Oxford
Rosemary Horrox. The Household of Richard III
Ralph A. Griffiths. Wales and Richard
A.J. Pollard. Richard's Relations with Northern and Southern Office Holders
Gwen and Brian Waters. Tape and Slides on Monasticism
Lorraine C. Attreed. Children in the Middle Ages