A meeting will be held at The Education Centre, Guildford Cathedral when the keynote speakers will be Prof John Arnold of Birkbeck and Prof Diane Watt of Surrey University. There will also be contributions from four members of the Forum. The cost of the day is £10 per person (£5 for students under 21). Please see the attached programme for details of all the presentations and of time, location etc.

A Medieval Studies Forum Study Day including a visit to the new Mary Rose Museum, a "behind the scenes" talk and a guided walking tour of historic Portsmouth led by Alan King, the former head of Local History at Portsmouth City Library, who has a particular interest in Medieval Portsmouth

A chance to see the results of the sixth season of excavations on this medieval and Tudor site.

* Tours of the trenches where archaeologists will explain the discoveries. * Displays of artefacts from the site. * Archaeology and history stalls to browse.

Please note that the last tour of the trenches leaves at 4pm and the site will close at 5pm.

Reading Manorial Account Rolls

A Practical Introduction

Two day-schools

Tutor: Dr David Stone

Saturday 8 February 2014 (9.30 am to 3.45 pm)

St Catherines Village Hall, Chestnut Avenue, Guildford GU2 4HF

·         Introduction and manorial accounts in translation

This day will feature Professor Christopher Dyer CBE FBA Emeritus Professor at Leicester University as the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include Richard Savage FSA who will provide an update of his studies of Old Woking. Further details are attached below.

The Medieval Studies Forum will meet in Cobham Village Hall. The programme (attached) includes a variety of presentations together with discussions and debate on the contribution on the Saxon and post-conquest periods that the Forum will present to the Surrey Historic Environment Research Framework (SHERF)  Conference in the autumn.

A talk by Hugh Anscombe

A talk by Judie English and Mike Borrell on the proposed landsape/historical/archaeological investigation

Lecture by Don Tyzack, Glass Historian & Author.

Part of the 38th Series of Industrial Archaeology Evening Lectures.