Northamptonshire Battlefields Society
Dedicated to the research and preservation of Northampton's Battlefields and Heritage
29 September – Phil Steele, Medieval Battle in contemporary illustrations.
20 October – AGM and talk Richard Brooks, William Marshal: The Knight who saved England
24 November – Paul Blinkhorn, Anglo-Saxon Northamptonshire
December – No talk
26 January – Dominic Smee and Richard Knox, The armour of Richard III
All talks at the Marriott Hotel, Eagle Drive, Northampton. 7:30pm start and are free to full NBS members otherwise £5.00 on the door.
28 May, our own Phil Steele will be giving a talk on the Battle of Bouvines – the battle that lost King John the Angevin Empire.
At the Marriott Hotel, Northampton 7:30pm Free to members, £5 non-members.
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/maps/travel/ormnh-northampton-marriott-hotel/#directions
800 years ago today, the Baron’s renounce their fealty to King John at Brackley in Northants and so begins the Baron’s War and the sealing of the Magna Carta.
This weeks blog. Northamptonshire’s part in the sealing of the Magna Carta.
Our next meeting will be held at the Marriott Hotel, Eagle Drive, Northampton Wednesday 26 November at 7:30pm. Our speaker will be Edward Dawson, the Battlefields Trust coordinator for the Magna Carta 800 Project.
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