Essex Through The Ages: A Conference at Essex Record Office, Saturday 12th July 2014

The Essex Society for Archaeology and History is pleased to promote another excellent Conference organised by, and to be held at, the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford. We will be having a book sale at the event.

ESSEX THROUGH THE AGES

FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN DISCOVER CENTURIES OF ESSEX LIFE USING MANORIAL RECORDS

A one-day conference at the Essex Record Office.

Manorial documents include many thousands of fascinating records, dating from the 1300s to the 1900s.

Join us to find out about the background to manorial documents, and for inspiration on how you can use these records in your own research into your family, house or local history.

Speakers:

• Prof Nigel Saul – Manors and manorial documents: what are they?

• Liz Hart – The national Manorial Documents Register project

• Katharine Schofield – Highlights from the Essex manorial records

• Prof L.R. Poos – An Essex case study: Stebbing and its late medieval and Tudor manorial documentation

• Graham Jolliffe – Unlocking Stebbing’s history from its manorial documentation

Saturday 12 July 2014, 10.30am-3.30pm

Essex Record Office, Wharf Road, Chelmsford, CM2 6YT

£15 including refreshments and buffet lunch

Please book in advance on 01245 244644

More details at www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/conferences