Medieval Beccles
| Convenor: Paul Gurbutt | Vacancies |
| Date: 2nd Monday of each month | No waiting list |
| Time: 2.30pm until 4.30pm | |
| Venue: Beccles Library |
MEDIAEVAL HISTORY - DOMESDAY TO 1500
Please note the next 6 meetings in the small meeting room at Beccles library will be on
Monday, 13 January 2020
Monday, 10 February 2020
Monday, 9 March 2020
Monday, 20 April 2020 (Note this is the THIRD Monday to avoid Easter)
Monday, 11 May 2020
Monday, 8 June 2020
We are also holding a joint meeting with the Historic Walks Group on 27 January looking at Saxon and Medieval Beccles and finishing at Beccles Station.
Please contact the convenor for more information - you can use the Bird to send a message.
Current interests include:-
- Are there tunnels under the centre of Beccles and if so where?
- What do the Beccles manor court rolls tell us about life in 15th century Beccles
- How to decipher medieval documents
- Street names and other place names in Beccles
This group will try to uncover what Beccles was like during this period.
This we shall do by finding out:
- who lived in Beccles;
- what they did;
- what they owned;
- whether they were affected by national events (e.g., the black death, religious upheavals (e.g., the Lollards), famine and the peasants revolt);
We shall see what we can discover from both published articles and original documents.
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| Some medieval historians at their July meeting. |