Book your tickets for our exciting Spring Lecture Series📜
👉Tickets are £4 each, or £20 for the whole series of six talks
👉Tickets can be purchased from Medway Archives Centre only
☎️To book by phone call 01634 332714 or drop in Alternatively you can email us at archives@medway.gov.uk
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Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 2pm
A lecture by Jacob Scott
The Chapter, staff and volunteers are committed to ensuring the Cathedral and collections serve to their full potential as resources in understanding the past and in facing the evolving challenges and opportunities presented by our world today.
Jacob Scott is the Heritage Officer at the Cathedral, working for much of the last ten years in recording, researching and making this huge corpus available freely online. This work is increasingly focused on aspects and persons in the past that have previously been underrepresented in the written and archaeological records, or have perhaps been squeezed out of public interpretation programs by more dominant narratives, towards opening these areas for further research.
Admission by ticket only. Please drop in, ring or email to book your place and buy a ticket.
Please buy your tickets early to avoid disappointment. Tickets £4.00 each
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 2pm
A lecture by Amanda Thomas
Few people realise that one of Argentina’s most legendary historical figures comes from Strood. Isaac Newell was born in 1853 in Taylors Lane, the third child of Joseph Newell of Essex and Mary Ann Goodger, who was from Higham.
This talk will look at the family history of Isaac Newell and will explain how, following his emigration to Argentina in 1869, he and his son Claudio started a football club which would shape the future of the international game. It is a story destined to put Strood well and truly on the map, indeed the town has already become a place of pilgrimage for South American football fans.
Admission by ticket only. Please drop in, ring or email to book your place and buy a ticket.
Please buy your tickets early to avoid disappointment. Tickets £4.00 each
Tuesday, 4 July 2023, 2pm
A lecture by Dr Alexander Thomas
A treasure of Rochester Cathedral and formerly of the Medway Archives, the Textus Roffensis was created by Bishop Ernulf of Rochester. It is an example of a 12th century AD codex diplomaticus.
The Textus is often known as an exclusive encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon and early Kentish law code texts. It is one of just two manuscripts to only contain the Peace of Edward and Guthrum (EGu). For centuries this was thought to be a genuine Viking Age treaty text, but EGu is in fact an infamous forgery created by Archbishop Wulfstan of York.
This lecture will explore the Textus itself as well as the impact of the fake text on contemporary research.
Are you interested in learning more about your family history? Or perhaps you’re an experienced family historian but have hit a brick wall?
Kent Family History Society offer free sessions with a knowledgeable and friendly volunteer. If you would like to book a session, please call us on 01634 332714.
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