950th Anniversary of the Battle of Hastings

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Friday 16th September
The Civic Centre, Trowbridge • 9.30am - 4.30pm
N O R M A N C O N Q U E S T A N N I V E R S A RY
C O N F E R E N C E : 1 0 6 6 A N D A L L T H AT !
After last year’s sell out Magna Carta Conference we
are pleased to present this year’s Norman Conquest
Anniversary Conference 1066 & All That!
This year marks 950 years since the Battle of
Hastings, so we will be hosting an entertaining
event at the Civic Centre on Friday 16th September.
There will be a full day of informative seminars by
some of the country’s leading historians.
Conference 9.30am – 4.30pm (Doors open at 9am)
SPEAKERS
• Dr Ryan Lavelle
• Dr Matt Bennett
• Dr Sean McGlynn
• Dr Michael Costen
• Dr Katherine Weikert
• Andy Milroy
Speakers
Dr RYAN LAVELLE is Reader
in Early Medieval History at the
University of Winchester and a
Fellow of the Royal Historical
Society. He is author of Alfred’s
Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon
Warfare in the Viking Age (2010), Royal Estates in
Anglo-Saxon Wessex: Land, Politics and Family
Strategies (2007), Aethelred II: King of the English,
978 – 1016 (2008) and co-editor of Danes in
Wessex: the Scandinavian Impact on Southern
England, c. 800 – 1100 (2015). He is historical
advisor to BBC’s hit series The Last Kingdom.
Dr SEAN McGLYNN is Lecturer
in History for Plymouth University’s
History, Heritage and Archaeology Degree
Programme at Strode College and is a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society. He is author of By Sword
and Fire: Cruelty and Atrocity in Medieval Warfare
(2008); Blood Cries Afar: The Forgotten Invasion of
England, 1216 (2011), Kill Them All: Cathars and
Carnage in the Albigensian Crusade (2015) and,
most recently, Medieval Generals (2016).
Dr MICHAEL COSTEN is a
Research Fellow at the University
of Bristol and a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society. He has
written many learned articles on
medieval archaeology and history and is author of
Romanesque Churches of the Loire and Western
France (2000), Cathars and the Albigensian
Crusade (1997) and Anglo-Saxon Somerset (2011).
ANDY MILROY is an author, local
historian and researcher who has given
numerous presentations in Wiltshire
on Henry de Bohun and his role, both
nationally as a Magna Carta Enforcer,
but also locally in developing Trowbridge. He has a
long standing background as an author. He has more
recently researched the history of the powerful de
Bohun family in depth. He is the author of Henry de
Bohun, Trowbridge Magna Carta Baron (2015).
Dr MATTHEW BENNETT is a
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
and was Senior Lecturer at the Royal
Military Academy, Sandhurst, until
his retirement in 2014. He is a leading
authority on medieval warfare, on which he has written
many learned articles. As well as editing a number of
important works on medieval warfare, he is author of
Agincourt 1415: Triumph Against the Odds (1991) and
Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001).
Dr KATHERINE WEIKERT is
Lecturer in Early Medieval History
at the University of Winchester
and is Fellow of the Higher
Education Academy. She has a
special interest in medieval gender
history and Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman
social history and archaeology. She is author of
the forthcoming Gender, Authority and Space in
the Central Middle Ages, c. 900 – 1200.
Programme
How to book
Doors open at 9.00am and Conference begins at 9.30am.
Dr Ryan Lavelle
The Anglo-Danish Kingdom
Tickets are priced at £18 & include
a buffet lunch. (No concessions)
Dr Matt Bennett
The Battles of 1066
Dr Sean McGlynn
William the Conqueror
Dr Michael Costen
The English Church After the Conquest
Tickets are available online at
www.trowbridgecivic.co.uk or
call 01225 765072
Dr Katherine Weikert
Women / Queenship / Matilda
Andy Milroy
The early de Bohuns
Supported by
Box Office:
Trowbridge Information Centre,
The Civic Centre, St Stephen’s Place,
Trowbridge, Wiltshire. BA14 8AH.
Email info@trowbridge.gov.uk