Newsletter (Summer 2017)

Now issued four times a year, members of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History will have received their copy of the Newsletter (NL182) a fortnight ago which includes details of the forthcoming Annual General Meeting to be held at Silver End Village Hall on Saturday 17 June at 2pm.

This edition includes:

- From the President

- Historic Pubs Come Under Planning Protection

- Lost Landscapes: Reconstructing Medieval Essex, 19 March 2017. A report of the Conference held at Essex Record Office

- 800th Anniversary of the Charter of the Forest 1217

- Nelson and the Vicar of Southminster - the Rev. Alexander John Scott

- William Dugard, Schoolmaster of Colchester 1637 -1642/3

- The Ongar Theatre in 1790

- Alderford Mill, Sible Hedingham

- Gustav Holst, Conrad Noel and the Whitsun Festivals (Part 2)

- Bulmer Brick and Tile Works

- The Society grants £1000 to Roman Circus House

- Events in Essex

-- Royal Gunpowder Mills

-- Battle of Assandun Dig

- Essex Seen From Elsewhere

-- Train Returns to National Railway Museum, York

- Callout to Volunteers

-- Industrial Heritage Fair, 7 October 2017

-- Ex Congress

- Readers' Letters

-- Stondon Massey Rectory

-- Henry Fitzroy Burial

- Notices

-- Colin Richard Kirwan, 1924-2016

-- Beryl Board F.R.Hist.S.

-- Olive Grace Earnshaw, 1942-2017

- Book Reviews

-- Library Policy

-- A Dictionary of Suffolk Place-Names, by K Briggs and K Kilpatrick. English Place-name Society Popular Series Vol. 6. Suffolk Archaeology & History Society. 214 pages £14

-- Medieval Graffiti. The Lost Voices of England's Churches, by Matthew Champion. Ebury Press. 2015. 253 pages. £14.99