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 ☛☛
The supposed sarcophagus of Joan, Lady of Wales at Beaumaris
14th century ballflower decoration at Ledbury
Pembroke Castle
Richard, 3rd Duke of York
Part of the Chicago version
of the Wigmore Chronicle
A Sower in the 15thC
The Evil Whale
Dyeing
Reconstructed armour of the Black Prince
at Canterbury Cathedral