What’s On
KAS EVENTS
KAS Churches Committee Visit
Saturday 23 April
You are invited to visit the two West Kent churches of Stone (near Dartford) and Southfleet. We meet at Stone at 1.45 for 2pm. Tea and biscuits will be provided at Southfleet. Cost of the tours is £2 (students £1) with tea extra at £1. All payments on the day.
A booking slip for the visit is enclosed; it would be helpful if return was made by April 16.
KAS Churches Committee Event
‘Reading A Church’ with Professor Nigel Saul on Saturday 12 March
An all-day event at St Helen’s Church, Cliffe-at-Hoo.
Professor Saul, a distinguished medievalist at the Royal Holloway, University of London, is the principal speaker both morning and afternoon. He will use the many and varied features of Cliffe church to enable us to interpret churches as a genre within their history, architecture, and ideology interrelated.
Cost £5.00 per person for the day, optional lunch £5.00. Numbers may have to be restricted and early booking is advised. A booking slip for the event is enclosed, to be returned by 15 February please.
Copyhold Tenure in Kent
Saturday 19 March 2005, 10.30 am to 12 noon, and 2 to 3.30 pm
Lecture to KAS Members at Maidstone by Arthur Ruderman, B.Sc. (Econ.), CPFA, DPA., Dip.Loc.Hist.(Kent).
‘Copyhold tenure is rare in Kent.’ There is no doubt that for much of Kent this statement (taken from Perambulation of Kent, by William Lambarde, first published in 1570) is true, although there are two manors known, Ashford and Folkestone, where significant areas were held by this tenure, most of which continued in this way until the tenure was abolished by Law of Property Act, 1922. In addition, small parcels of land in several manors in other parishes have been found, held by the same tenure.
The lectures will seek to explain the origins of the tenure, well before the Norman Conquest, and the way in which it worked. The morning session will consist firstly of a lecture, with illustrations of the documents in which the transactions were recorded, and the areas (not only in Kent, or England) where the custom prevailed. This will be followed by details of the long Parliamentary battle that lasted from the early 1800s to 1922, for the abolition of the system.
The afternoon session will be a more general discussion. It is hoped that members of the audience will be prepared to give examples of copyhold land that they have found in manors that they have studied; indeed if they are able to send the speaker brief details beforehand (preferably by email to arthur@ruderman.fsnc.t.co.uk), this would enable the additional material to be included in the day’s proceedings.
Telephone Denis Anstey on 01634 240015 or email to d@degian.demon.co.uk to make reservations.
Cost £2.00, pay on the day.
Lectures
Saturday 12 March
The Cutty Sark by Roger McLean
Saturday 9 April
Lord Castlereagh and Lord Bexley by John Mercer
All lectures held at the Baker Trust Hall, Maxim Road, Crayford at 7.30pm. Cost for non-members of CMHHAS is £1.00.
Canterbury Archaeological Society Lectures
Lectures take place in the Ramsay Lecture Hall, Canterbury Christ Church College, starting at 6pm.
Saturday 12 February
Early Exotics: A Harvest from the Late 17th century Dutch and English Colonies by Dr Elizabeth EdwardsSaturday 5 March
Crusader Castles by Richard Eales
Tonbridge Historical Society Lecture Series
7.45pm in the Adult Education Centre, Tonbridge.
Thursday 17 February
Support for the Fleet: the Royal Dockyards at the time of Trafalgar by Jonathan CoadThursday 7 April
AGM followed by lecture
Further details tel: 01732 838698
University of Kent Annual Darwin Lecture
‘Archaeology, Genetics and the Origins of Linguistic Diversity?’
by Professor Lord Colin Renfrew
Friday 22 April at 6pm in the Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
Bexley Local Studies & Archive Centre Winter Talks
7.30pm at Hall Place.
Wednesday 23 March
Rural Survivors by Malcolm Barr-Hamilton
To order tickets and for further information tel: 020 8301 1545.
Sevenoaks Historical Society Talks
Held on Thursdays at the Undercroft, St Nicholas’ Church at 8pm. All talks £1.50.
27 January
The Coastal Shipping Trades and Harbours of the Thames Estuary 1800–1950 by Roy Walker
24 February
The Story of the Dance Band Days – 1920s, 30s and 40s by Don Dray
24 March
The Life of William Morris by Dai Evans, Property Manager, Petworth
21 April
The Edwardian Eye of Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles, early photo-journalist by Richard Pitcairn-Knowles
Conferences
Historic Houses in Kent presented by the Council for Kentish Archaeology on Saturday 9 April at Sevenoaks Community Centre, Crampton Road, Sevenoaks.
Hever Castle 100 years ago by Robert Pullin (Managing Director, Hever Castle)
The Archaeology of Ightham Mote by Dr Peter Rumley (Assistant Project Archaeologist, Ightham Mote)
Roman Villas in the Darent Valley by Brian Philp (KARU)
Tickets £4.00 (cheques payable to CKA) from CKA, 7 Sandy Ridge, Borough Green TN15 8HP. Please enclose SAE.
Events Elsewhere
British Archaeological Association
The Association welcomes visitors who wish to attend occasional meetings. Meetings are on Wednesdays at 5pm in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly. It is requested that non-BAA members make themselves known to the Hon. Director and sign the Visitor’s Book.
2 February
The façade of the great church from the 4th to the 12th centuries by Barrie Singleton2 March
The Hotel Saint-Pol, Paris, main residence of the Valois kings 1364–1422 by Mary Whiteley6 April
Who, where, what and why? Trondheim Cathedral and its decoration in the 12th century by James F King4 May
Architecture and patronage at Croxden Abbey by Dr Jackie Hall
Gap on the Bookshelf?
A few copies of Archaeologia Cantiana have been given to the editor for dispersal:
Vol XCV – 1979
Vol XCVI – 1980
Vol XCVII – 1981
Vol XCVIII – 1982
Vol C – 1984
Vol CI – 1984
Vol CXIX – 1999
Free to good homes! Postage costs only required. Please contact the editor at the usual addresses to arrange delivery.