MHS Lectures Online
Research – the search for accuracy and a journey towards truth ☛☛
– Toby Clements, author of the King Maker series
Recovering England’s earliest women writers ☛☛
– Victoria MacKenzie, author of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
“To my right worshipful husband, John Paston. Be this delivered in haste” ☛☛
– Anne O’Brien, Sunday Times best-selling author
Betrayal in the Belfry – Bishop Anian and the demise of Llywelyn the Last ☛☛
– Dr Shaun McGuiness
The Mysterious Fate of Edward II ☛☛
– Kathryn Warner
The Mortimer Solution to the Princes in the Tower ☛☛
– Matt Lewis
‘Anne Mortimer’s Arthurian Legacy to the House of York ☛☛
– Dr J L Laynesmith
Autumn Symposium: Panel Discussion ☛☛
Evening Talks – Wednesday evenings 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd in February 2023
Elementary education in the late mediaeval Marches: exploring the manuscripts ☛☛
– Dr David Thomson
Wales, the Marches and Universities ☛☛
– Dr Rhun Emlyn
Changing Boundaries: Astronomy & the 12th Century Welsh Marches ☛☛
– Dr Katharine Bader
‘Adam Usk (c. 1350-1430): Clerk, lawyer, Welshman, traitor’ ☛☛
– Professor Chris Given-Wilson
‘Ny bydd ynad neb heb ddysc’: Legal Learning in Medieval Wales ☛☛
– Dr Sara Elin Roberts
“Gerald of Wales: A Twelfth-Century Writer and Cleric” ☛☛
– Dr Georgia Henley
Walter Brut: Astronomer, Farmer, Heretic, Rebel ☛☛
– Dr Rhun Emlyn
The priest and knight may come in” ….. but who else populated the medieval castle? ☛☛
– Dr Pamela Marshall FSA
Edward I’s Castles in Wales ☛☛
– Dr Andy King
Raglan Castle ☛☛
– Dr John Kenyon, FSA
Castrum Leonis Roars Again: Reconstruction Holt Castle, Denbighshire ☛☛
– Chris Jones-Jenkins FSA
The royal castles of Edward I & the English control of North Wales, 1283-1400 ☛☛
– Dr Jeremy Ashbee, FSA
founder of the Mortimer History Society and of the Usk Castle Friends
The Mortimers and the Welsh Princes
14th May 2022 – a one-day conference held at Knighton and also online
Competition and conquest: native Welsh society and the early Norman inroads ☛☛
– Dr Euryn Williams
The Land between Wye and Severn: a Mortimer obsession ☛☛
– Dr David Stephenson
Conflict and coexistence: Llywelyn ab Iorwerth and the Mortimers ☛☛
– Dr Rhun Emlyn
Cousins at War: Roger Mortimer and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd ☛☛
– Philip Hume FSA
A “notorious association”: Owain Glyndŵr and Sir Edmund Mortimer ☛☛
– Prof. Gruffudd Aled Williams
Question and Answer Session with the first three speakers ☛☛
2nd March 2022 – the online launch of Dr Craig Owen Jones’ new book
2nd October 2021 – a one-day conference held at Evesham and also online
Henry III: the Captive King ☛☛
– Prof David Carpenter
A Rebel Princess: Eleanor de Montfort and the 2nd Barons’ War ☛☛
– Prof Louise Wilkinson
The Leopard Prince: Lord Edward and the 2nd Barons’ War ☛☛
– Dr Andrew Spencer
And with his Lance he Struck him through the Neck:
Roger Mortimer and the 2nd Barons’ War ☛☛
– Dr Andy King
Question and Answer Session ☛☛
Edward I, Wales and the Marches
15th May 2021 – a half-day conference held online because of pandemic restrictions
27th March 2021 – a half-day conference held online because of pandemic restrictions
13th February 2021 – an afternoon conference held online because of pandemic restrictions
Far More Things Forbidden: Women and their Rights in Medieval Welsh Law ☛☛
– Dr Sara Elin Roberts
Joan, Lady of Wales: A Model of Welsh Queenship or an Exception to the Norm? ☛☛
– Dr Danna Messer
Willing Wives: Married Women, Wills & the Consistory Court of Hereford c.1400-1520 ☛☛
– Dr Cordelia Beattie
21st November 2020 – a morning conference held online because of pandemic restrictions
Dynastic Policies and “Proximity” to the Crown
16th September 2020 – online because of pandemic restrictions
– Prof. Matthew Strickland
The Soldier’s Experience ☛☛
– Dr Colin Veach
A Task too Great for One Dynasty? The Mortimers and Medieval Ireland c1340-c1398 ☛☛
– Dr Simon Egan
The Unravelling of Ireland and the Downfall of Richard II ☛☛
The Fall and Rise of the Mortimer Earls of March 1330-1360 ☛☛
– Dr Paul Dryburgh
Mortimer and Lancaster: the Origins of a Dynastic Feud ☛☛
Don’t Mention the Mortimers: How a Putative King became an Impotent Pawn ☛☛
– Prof Chris Given-Wilson
Richard, Duke of York: A Marcher Lord ☛☛
– Matthew Lewis
Richard III: From Ludlow to Bosworth ☛☛
– Dr Ian Mortimer
A Single Battle to Win a Country – nearly 200 years to Conquer a Welsh District:
The Mortimers’ Struggle to Control Maelienydd ☛☛
– Philip Hume
Mortimer Women in the 12th and 13th Centuries ☛☛
– Dr Emma Cavell
The Flickering Flame: Roger Mortimer and the Troubled Kingship of Edward II ☛☛
– Dr Paul Dryburgh
Hugh Despenser the Younger: The Rise and Fall of a Royal Favourite ☛☛
– Kathryn Warner
Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown: Roger Mortimer, Ruler and (Possible) Regicide ☛☛
– Prof Michael Staunton
Chronicles and Colleges: Constructing the Image of the Mortimers ☛☛
– Dr Philip Morgan
The Mortimers in the Writings of Iolo Goch and Adam Usk ☛☛
![Joan, Lady of Wales](https://mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mortimers/Online-Lectures/Joan-Lady-of-Wales.jpg)
The supposed sarcophagus of Joan, Lady of Wales at Beaumaris
![Ballflower ornamentation](https://mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mortimers/Online-Lectures/Ballflower-ornamentation.jpg)
14th century ballflower decoration at Ledbury
![Pembroke Castle](https://mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mortimers/Online-Lectures/Pembroke-Castle.jpg)
Pembroke Castle
![Richard of York](https://mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mortimers/Online-Lectures/Richard-of-York.jpeg)
Richard, 3rd Duke of York
![Wigmore Chronicle 1](https://mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mortimers/Online-Lectures/Wigmore-Chronicle-1.jpg)
Part of the Chicago version
of the Wigmore Chronicle
![The Sower – 15thC](https://mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/General-Images/The-Sower-15thC.jpg)
A Sower in the 15thC
![The Evil Whale](https://mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/General-Images/The-Evil-Whale.jpg)
The Evil Whale
![Dyeing](https://mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/General-Images/Dyeing.jpg)
Dyeing
![Armour of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral c.1380](https://mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/General-Images/Armour-of-the-Black-Prince-in-Canterbury-Cathedral-c.1380.jpg)
Reconstructed armour of the Black Prince
at Canterbury Cathedral