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Newsletter No.1 - December 2009
Headlines from Newsletter No.2 - January 2010
Message from the Chairman - John Grove
Future plans for the MHS - conferences, field trips, website development and gazetteer
'Introducing Members' column - this time - Roger F Mortimer, Selby, Yorkshire, and Andrew Stobart, Orleton Manor
Report and photos of the inaugural AGM and members' dinner of the Mortimer History Society, and visit to Wigmore Castle held on 28 October 2009.
Headlines - MHS Newsletter No.3 - July 2010
Report of the very successful first MHS conference at Ludlow Assembly rooms - 8 May. Presentations by Dr David Stephenson,
Paul Remfry and John Grove; Ian Barge and the Teme Players enacted excerpts from Shakespeare's Henry IV Part One.
Report of the first MHS field trip to Cefnllys and Tinboeth in Mid-Wales in June.
Introducing Members: Michael Mortimer, Washington USA; Professor Gruffydd Aled Williams, University of Aberystwyth
In Memoriam - Jim Tonkin. Publication of the first MHS booklet "Some Mortimer Castles".
MHS members went to see Marlowe's "Edward II" at Berkeley Castle and Gloucester Cathedral in May.
Blanche Mortimer's memorial at Much Marcle church - a presentation at a Day School run by the Church Monuments Society, June.
Headlines from Newsletter No.4 - October 2010
Announcing The Mortimer Chronicle - new journal of the Mortimer History Society -
first issue to appear in Spring 2011; call for papers, notes and queries, and reviews.
Reports and pictures of - Autumn Conference at Ludlow in September - Main speaker Professor David Carpenter, professor of medieval history at King's College, London - who recently appeared in the Michael Wood's television programme about the history of Kibworth.
September meeting of the Bromyard History Society where MHS Dep.Chairman
Dr. Martin Toms told the story of the Mortimer manor of Tedstone Wafre and Roger of Chirk.
Pictures of Battle of Mortimers Cross 1461 Re-enactment on 18 September near Leominster
MHS displays at Ross-on-Wye and Ledbury Heritage Centres.
Illustrated article on "The Herefordshire School of Sculptures - and the Mortimer Connection" and poem "The Pilgrim" by Tina Negus, about Oliver de Merlimond, chief steward of Hugh de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore. Oliver went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella and on the way was inspired by the churches; he brought back masons with patterns to be worked at Shobdon, Kilpeck and other places in Herefordshire.
Book review: Fran Norton's historical novel "In the Shadow of a Tainted Crown" Ellingham Press, £9.99 ISBN 978-0-9563079-2-7, mainly set against the backdrop of Ludlow - a tale of love, loyalty, courage and vengeance - the rise of Roger of Wigmore from Marcher baron to 'regent' of England.
Headlines from Newsletter No.5 - January 2011
Field Visit to Much Marcle and the Blanche Mortimer tomb
A short history of Joan Geneville of Ludlow
Wigmore Abbey and Leintwardine church
Ian Mortimer, Alison Weir and the Border Waites at the Ludlow conference
STORY OF AN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL KNIGHT - Sir John Cornewall KG (1364-1443).
Headlines from Newsletter No.6 - June 2011
Chairman's Diary - the Montgomery effigies
The new MHS Costumes and Textiles group
'The Mortimers and the Royal Family' by Dr Ian Mortimer at the Ludlow Conference
'Queen Isabella, She-Wolf of France' by Alison Weir
Details of the first issue of the Mortimer Chronicle, edited by Helen Watt and Paul Dryburgh.