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History of Temple Church, Bristol
Bristol’s Temple Church is so called because the original church was built by the Knights Templar, perhaps the most famous of the medieval military orders. Their round church here was later replaced with a larger, more conventional rectangular church, whose leaning tower and walls survived bombing in the Second World War.
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Ada Salter was a social reformer, environmental improver and local politician who in 1922 became Mayor of Bermondsey. She is commemorated with a blue plaque at 149 Lower Road, Rotherhithe, where she lived in the late 1890s.
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Laurence of Ludlow and Medieval Wool Wealth
Find out how the extraordinary growth of the wool trade not only paid for the building of Stokesay Castle, but also bought its owner influence in national politics.
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Take a look at 400 years of research on Stonehenge, from the first known excavation to the very latest discoveries.
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Discover the history of this English Palladian villa and its gardens beside the Thames, from its origins in the 1720s as a retreat from court life for Henrietta Howard to the present day.
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History of Wharram Percy Deserted Medieval Village
The history of Wharram Percy Deserted Medieval Village, which flourished during the 12th and 14th centuries and was abandoned soon after 1500.
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Ada Salter was a social reformer, environmental improver and local politician who in 1922 became Mayor of Bermondsey. She is commemorated with a blue plaque at 149 Lower Road, Rotherhithe, where she lived in the late 1890s.
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Watch our past Members' lectures, covering topics including monastic Christmas, prehistory and the imagination, the Battle of Hastings, life and death in a medieval castle and much more besides.
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A history of Audley End, one of the greatest houses of early 17th-century England, transformed by Robert Adam in the 1760s.
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History of Ashby de la Zouch Castle
The history of the castle purpose-built by William, Lord Hastings, whose sudden fall from grace and execution in 1483 left the castle unfinished.