Programme

Our 2023 programme: 23 Feb: '1926' - our speaker is our Chairman, Martyn Lockwood. 23 Mar: Annual General Meeting. 27 Apr: 'John Ray' - Jennifer Rowland. 25 May: Napoleonic Invasion Plans - Neil Wiffen. 22 Jun: 'Jersey under the Jackboot: the occupation of Jersey during WW2' - Patrick Griggs. 27 Jul: 'The Life and Times of William Byrd (c1540-1623): A Local History' - Andrew Smith. 26 Oct: 'The Prison at Hill Hall' - Anne Padfield. 23 Nov: Pre-Christmas meeting. Talk to be confirmed. Admission: Members £1, Non-members £5 Annual Membership: £15 (Family: £30)

Monday, 5 August 2013

High Country History Group: Journal No. 48 (June 2013)

The Members' Quarterly Journal remembers Dr Rob Brooks, our Chairman, with the first part of his study course on the Royal Forest of Essex (pages 14 - 31).  The contents include:
- Report of the Annual General Meeting
- Tribute to Rob Brooks (1945-2013)
- From The Papers
- Stanford Rivers Incorporated Workhouse & the New Poor Laws
- Greensted Mystery: "The cover of the Journal shows an oil painting of the Reverend Benjamin Pratt, A.M., Founder of the Living of Greensted". But who was he?
- The Royal Forest of Essex
-- Introduction
-- I.  Anglo-Saxon Essex
-- II. The Norman and Angevin Kings
-- III. The Growth of Deer Parks
-- IV. Law and Order in the Forest
-- V.  Forest Fieldwork
- Essex Royalist Clergy - and Others: taken from Essex Review

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