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Earl Mortimer College & Sixth Form Centre

South Street Leominster Herefordshire

HR6 8JJ

 

Third Annual General Meeting

 

10.30 a.m., Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Earl Mortimer College, Leominster HR6 8JJ

 

To be followed by a presentation by the

Mortimer Dress, Costumes and Textiles Group

The group will be introducing themselves. There will be a special emphasis on the costume of Blanche Mortimer, from the early 14^th century, seen in her effigy at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Much Marcle, Herefordshire. Other medieval effigies will also be mentioned and the future activities of the group will be discussed.

 

AGM Agenda

 

1. Welcome  -  Minutes of AGM 2011 and matters arising.

2. Chairman’s Report ( + future of Wigmore Castle – brief discussion of ‘Concept’)

3. Treasurer’s Report

4. Election of Committee

Chairman:                     John Grove

Deputy Chairman:         Martin Toms - Membership

Deputy Chairman:         Paul Remfry - Website and Research

Secretary:                     John Atkinson

Treasurer:                     Andrew Colby

Publicity:                      Jason O’Keefe

Members:                     Yve James, Stella Mason

Any further nominations welcome. To Secretary by February 4^th via email (john113atkinson@btinternet.com) or post (Hollywell House, Hollywell Lane, Clows Top, Kidderminster, DY14 9NR).

5. Programme for the Year 2012 - Events, Field Visits, Website

6. Future Strategy for the Society - discussion paper by Stella Mason (please view by clicking on this link)

7. Any Other Business

 

Next AGM – February 9^th, 2013

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“Tedstone Wafre and the Mortimer Connection”

A “Talk” and “Walk” around the medieval parish of Tedstone Wafre, Herefordshire

Saturday 21^st April 2012

Starting and finishing at

Saltmarshe* Village hall, Tedstone Wafre, Nr Bromyard, Herefordshire, HR7 4PP

 

11.00   -           Arrival/parking (tea and coffee)

11.30   -           Talk: “Tedstone Wafre and the Mortimer Connection” (Dr Martin Toms, MHS)

13.00   -           Lunch - please bring your own sandwiches etc (tea, coffee and biscuits available)

14.00   -           Walk: The Landscape Archaeology of Tedstone Wafre (Tim Hoverd, Herefordshire County Council Landscape Archaeologist)

16.30   -           Return to Saltmarshe Village Hall & depart

 

·         Cost: £2.00 per person (limited places - Priority given to MHS members)

·         Maximum of 30 people for walk

·         Ample parking (walk starts and ends at the hall)

·         Toilets available at the hall

·         Tea and coffee available prior to walk

·         Wellington boots and weather appropriate clothing strongly advised (it WILL be muddy in places)

·         Walk is around 3 miles across undulating fields/farmyard/footbridge on public footpaths, by-roads and private land (no dogs due to livestock)

·         You can attend the Talk, Walk .......... or both! (please indicate which)

·         To book a place please email Martin Toms at m.r.toms@bham.ac.uk or call 01885 488477

 

*Saltmarshe Village Hall can be found just off the B4203 from Bromyard to Great Witley/Stourport approximately 5 miles North of Bromyard. Approx 1 mile after Saltmarshe Castle take the left hand side road signposted to “Collington” and “Edwyn Ralph” (and the “Granary Restaurant”). The village hall is then immediately on your right. (For more detailed directions please contact Martin Toms).

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Time Traveller's Guides - to the heart of the past! Saturday 21 April 2012

This is going to be a very special event. Details have yet to be decided but the plan is to make use of Dartmoor National Park Authority's Grade 1 Listed longhouse, Higher Uppacott, on the edge of Dartmoor, for an afternoon of social history. The original building at Higher Uppacott was first constructed in the middle of the 14th century as a standard yeoman's longhouse and modified over the subsequent three centuries. The house is not large but an 'ordinary' yeoman's residence - and thus is exceptionally rare in this state of preservation. It is not normally open to the public.

The afternoon will fall into three parts. Meeting at 2pm, a small number of guests will be given a tour of the house by me in conjunction with National Park Authority heritage officers. Afterwards (and, I hope, after some refreshments) I will give a talk about daily life in the fourteenth century, based on my Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. The second event after another break, will bring you two hundred years forward in time, to understand life in the sixteenth century. This talk will be based on my new book, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England. Signed copies of the new book (normally £20) will be given out as souvenirs to all those attending. Prices for the afternoon (which will probably last from 2pm-6pm) will be about £50-£60 - to include parking, refreshments, tour of the house, both talks, and a signed book. All profits are to be given to the Dartmoor National Park Authority and will be ringfenced for the conservation of the house. A maximum of twenty tickets will be made available, so do not delay if you are interested in coming. An announcement will be made on Ian Mortimer's site when tickets go on sale, with details of how to apply.

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Saturday, 12 May 2012, 10am to 3.30pm 

MHS Spring Conference

HR6 8JJ

Edward I, Roger Mortimer, Simon de Montfort, and Prince Llywelyn

 Director of Studies        Marc Morris

 Author of Edward I ‘A Great and Terrible King’      pub. Windmill

 TV presenter ‘Castles’

 

Possible Schedule

10 am Coffee and Bookshop

10.30 – 11.15  Marc Morris ‘The Lord Edward – early years’

11.15 – 12.30  Seminar           3 groups        Chair Marc Morris

 

“What If Simon de Montfort had won the Battle of Evesham”.

        Opening plenary Session   4 speakers 

        1.  Simon de Montfort Society rep.

        2.  Roger Mortimer rep.

        3.  Katherine Ashe  -  Simon and Llywelyn

        4.  Marc Morris – Edward’s reaction

        Group seminars 40 minutes          Summing up – Marc Morris

       

12.30  -   1.30 Lunch

1.30 -  2.45  Seminar 2 

 

“Prince Llywelyn’s achievements”

         Opening plenary  Session 3 speakers x 10 mins

            1. Welsh History society rep

            2. Roger Mortimer rep

            3. Marc Morris Edward’s view

        Group seminars 60 mins

 

2.45 – 3.30 ‘Edward I’s Achievements’  Marc Morris

Prices for the full day with lunch and coffees, £18 for MHS members and £20 for non members.

Please book in advance by either sending a cheque payable to Mortimer History Society as well as a SAE to

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