Talk - The Life and Times of Queen Victoria By Pat McLaughlin (Worksop)

Pat returns to give a talk on the life of one of Britain’s most renown monarchs. The talk will delve into the early years of Victoria’s life explaining how she became Queen. The talk will also delves into Victoria’s relationship with Prince Albert and how she interacted with the other European monarchies.


The talk starts at 7.30pm on Thursday 5th February at the Innings Public House, Prospect, Worksop S81 0RS. Entry is only £3 and there will be a bar on. There is also a large free car park outside.

Talk - World War I by Pam Cook (Worksop)

The next Priories Historical Society meeting is on Thursday March 6th  2014 at the BCVS, next to Worksop Priory on Priorswell Road, Worksop starting at 7.30pm

Pam Cook gives a talk on World War I and looking for the story of her ancestors

Hope to see you there.

Event - CBA Festival of Archaeology (Worksop)

Priories Historical Society are pleased to announce a history event taking place at Worksop Library on Memorial Avenue on 13-14th July as part of the CBA Festival of Archaeology.

Several of the areas local history societies will be attending as well as Worksop Civic Society.  There will be an exhibition on Worksop's early history as well as finds from previous excavations.

The event will be open between 09.30-16.00 on Saturday and between 12.00-15.30 on Sunday.

Event - CBA Festival of Archaeology 2013 (Worksop)

This year’s CBA Festival of Archaeology takes place between Saturday 13th and Sunday 28 July 2013 and marks the 22nd year of this event. 

The events are listed on their website at http://festival.britarch.ac.uk/whatson and as usual the Priories Historical Society will be getting involved. We'll keep you updated with our plans as we arrange the venue and details on our exhibition as soon as we've figured out what we're going to do (some work is currently under way). Our past two events in Worksop Library in 2011 and Radford Priory in 2012 were well attended and we hope to expand the displays this year. 

So follow us on Twitter/Facebook or our website for updates.

Event - Lady Arbella Stewart – The Queen That Never Was (Worksop)

David Templeman from the Manor House in Sheffield returns to Worksop to give a fascinating talk on Lady Arbella Stewart, Englands ‘lost queen’. Follow her life, the plot to overthrow James I and her final days in the Tower of London.

Thursday 4th April starting at 7.30pm.BCVS Old Abbey School building next to the Priory Church, Priorswell Road, Worksop, S80 2BU. Entrance is still only £3 (or £2 for members) Free tea/coffee and biscuits are provided at each meeting. Membership to Priories Historical Society remains the same at only £5 per year.

Event - Local Finds and Their Preservation (Worksop)

The next Priories Historical society talk takes place on Thursday March 7th.  Sam Glasswell from the Bassetlaw Museum in Retford comes to talk about artefacts found in our local area and the techniques used to keep them in good condition.

The talk starts at 7.30pm at the BCVS Old Abbey School building next to the Worksop Priory (S80 2BU). Entrance is still only £3 (or £2 for members) Free tea/coffee and biscuits are provided at each meeting. Membership remains the same at only £5 per year.

PHS website is at  http://priorieshistoricalsociety.btck.co.uk/

Event - Segelocum Talk 2nd May (Retford)

If you are interested in coming along to learn more about the Roman town of Segelocum at Littleborough, you need to book asap as we have been assured that it will book up fast.

 

Details

Talk: Segelocum; grains of history

7pm, Retford Library, 2nd May

To book a place please call Retford Library on 01777 708 724.  There is a 50p charge to cover refreshments.

Event - A Glossary & Guide to Ancestral Ailments (Worksop)

Tonights talk (07/02) is by Joan Grundy.  Based on her book Joan’s ABC glossary of the ailments of yesteryear is a layman’s guide to the terminology used on death certificates, burial books, parish registers etc. She describes the cause of sicknesses, their symptoms and possible outcome. However, are we becoming complacent about diseases that could still, so easily, re-appear? The last case of Black Death was in Glasgow in the 1900s!

7.30pm at the BCVS Old Abbey School building next to the Priory Church, Priorswell Road, Worksop, S80 2BU. Entrance is still only £3 (or £2 for members) Free tea/coffee and biscuits are provided at each meeting. Membership remains the same at only £5 per year.

Event - Virtual Tour Round Hardwick Hall (Oldcotes)

You can see the treasures of Hardwick Hall without the trouble of driving there on November 19th at Oldcotes Village Hall. 

Historian Maureen Taylor will give a virtual tour for those who are unable to get to Hardwick, or for those who are thinking of going and want to be well prepared for what to look for.

The power-point presentation visits the Hall room by room in the same sequence that an actual visitor would see them in. Descriptions of each room and the history of the artefacts are given in great detail.

The lives of Bess of Hardwick, her husbands and her granddaughter Arabella are interwoven into the presentation. Without them, the rich tapestry of the Hall could not be told.

The talk starts at 19.30 and tickets are £2 for members and £3 for visitors, no booking is required and free tea/coffe and biscuits are given.

Group - Sprotbrough Local History Group

Symeon from the Doncaster History website is looking into setting up a local history group in Sprotborough.


If you would be interested in either helping to get a group off the ground or would like to be part of a Sprotbrough group then please get in touch with him via the website http://doncasterhistory.co.uk/

Event - The Hidden History of 1066 (Oldcotes)

Mike Kelley comes to Oldcotes Village Hall to talk about what happened to the north after William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066. 

Based on his book 'The Rape of England' Mike talks about what happened to local communities and the harrying of the north.

Talk starts at 19.30 on Monday 22nd October. Tickets cost £3 or only £2 to members of Priories Historical Society. Price includes tea/coffee and a free biscuit.

Event - Worksop Library heritage open day

Worksop Library is holding a heritage open day tomorrow (Thursday).


All day in the main library hidden treasures of the local studies library will be on display, including old Worksop photographs, historical maps and much more.

From 2.30pm to 3.30pm there will be a film showing of Worksop People In The 1950s .

The from 4pm to 5.15pm there will be a photographic tour from the library.

On a guided short tour of the local area, you will visit the sites of old photographs of Worksop, learn about their history, and take new photos to record how things have changed.

Places are limited and booking is essential. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

To book your place, call the library on 01909 535353.

From: http://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/local-news/worksop-library-heritage-open-day-1-4899260

Event - Visit Mr Straw’s house after dark (Worksop)

Mr STRAW’S House in Worksop is offering a rare opportunity for a night-time visit this weekend.


The National Trust property is taking part in the nationwide Museums at Night initiative, which sees hundreds of museums, galleries, libraries, and heritage sites open their doors for special evening events over the weekend of 18th to 20th May.

As well as seeing this unique property after hours, visitors will be able to view objects that are not usually on display.

Booking is essential for the event at 7pm on Friday 18th May.

“This is a rare opportunity for visitors to see a National Trust place in a different light,” said director for the Midlands Beccy Speight.

“We’re really working to increase the opportunities people have to come to these special places in the Midlands – whether that’s opening more in the winter or offering longer opening hours.”

“Even our most frequent visitors will experience a new side to their favourite place at this special event.”

For more details visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/midlands

From: http://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/local-news/visit-mr-straw-s-house-after-dark-1-4549241

Event - Community Archaeology at Water Mill (Papplewick)

On Wednesday 16th, Thursday 17th and Friday 18th May Nottinghamshire County Council’s Community Archaeology team will be surveying the remains of a water mill sluice and leet system that powered mills along the River Leen at Papplewick in the 18th century.


The earthworks are at Moorpond Wood- the entrance to which is from the road between Linby and Papplewick.

The water system is of great importance and was owned and created by the Robinsons who were friends of Arkwright who built his mills at Cromford in Derbyshire.

The Cromford Mills are a world heritage site, and so these mills (dating from a similar time, but having gone out of use earlier) are of possible international significance.

They will be mapping the site using an EDM Total Station, to create a map and 3D model.

If you wish to join in please contact them at www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/communityarchaeology

Event - Two Queens and a Countess (Oldcotes)

This is not the life story of the three ladies but an in depth talk on the interaction between the three most colourful and charismatic women in Elizabethan history: Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots; and Bess of Hardwick. A unique insight into a predominantly mans world, entered into and conquered by these 3 most powerful women by David Templeman from Sheffield Manor Lodge.

The talk starts at 7.30pm on Monday 12th March 2012 at Oldcotes Village Hall on Maltby Road (A634). Entrance is £3 for non-members or £2 for members and includes free tea/coffee and biscuits. Membership for the society is only £5 per year.

News - Museums Sheffield will keep council funding

Museums Sheffield is set to keep its current level of Sheffield Council funding for the next financial year to help the trust cope after losing out on a bid for £4.2 million of Arts Council cash.

Opposition Lib Dem councillors proposed a motion at this afternoon’s full council meeting that the current annual grant of £2.044 million should stay the same for next year - which was accepted by the authority’s ruling Labour group.

Freezing the council grant for the next three years had been a condition of receiving the Arts Council money but after the bid for funding was lost, the council could have made a cut. Money for other trusts, including Sheffield Theatres, is being reduced.

The boost comes as a redundancy notice was issued for 45 of Museum Sheffield’s 107 staff on account of the Arts Council’s rejection.

Museums Sheffield is bidding for a share of further Arts Council funding to be announced in September.

From: http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/breaking_museums_sheffield_will_keep_council_funding_1_4201577

News - Museums Sheffield to lose 45 jobs throughout city

Up to 45 jobs are to go at Sheffield's museums over the coming months, Museums Sheffield has said.

Chief executive Daniel Dodd said the cuts would mean the latest exhibition, which opens on Thursday, would be the last of its kind.

The organisation currently employs 107 staff. Mr Dodd said all savings must be made by 31 March.

It is thought that the redundancies will affect every part of the organisation.

"Everybody is at risk, including me," said Mr Dodd. "We all work together and it is absolutely appropriate that everybody stands side by side in this." 

He said staff, who had already taken pay cuts and had their hours changed, were "deeply, deeply shocked and upset" by the news.

The redundancies would also have a "very serious effect" on the city's cultural offering, he said.

"The next exhibition, The Family in British Art, is of the highest quality - exceptional, fantastic, but it will be the last show of its type that we will ever be able to do because we won't have the people to do it any more."

An appeal has been launched by staff and the public, and the Museums Sheffield website explains why the Arts Council funding was turned down.

From: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-16840918

News - Sheffield museums face Arts Council funding blow

The city's Millennium Gallery is one of the museums facing job losses as a result of funding cuts 

Sheffield's museums face "large-scale redundancies" after the Arts Council turned down a bid for £4.2m of funding, the city's council leader has warned.

Museums Sheffield had applied for £1.4m per year for the next three years from the Arts Council England.

Council leader Julie Dore said: "This is a huge disappointment for the city. 

"Large-scale staff redundancies, major reductions in exhibition programmes, and scaled-down learning provision are all now inevitable." 

The council said its failure to gain funding from the Renaissance Museum Development Fund would mean a "crushing" 30% cut in its budget from 1 April.

The Arts Council said it had received 29 "eligible" applications for a total of £116.4m in funding over three years. 

Sixteen of the applicants were successful, including Leeds Museums and Galleries and the York Museums Trust.

"One year's transitional funding will be available to unsuccessful applicants who currently receive support... to help them adjust to these changes," it said.

Museums Sheffield, which runs the city's Millennium Gallery, Graves Gallery, Weston Park and Bishops' House, said it planned to appeal against the Arts Council's decision.

'Grossly underfunded'

Chief executive Nick Dodd said: "We know we put together a compelling case for continued funding under the new Arts Council grants programme, which met all the published criteria. 

"This decision will have a devastating impact and leaves Sheffield, South Yorkshire and the East Midlands grossly underfunded by the Arts Council in comparison with other parts of the country.

"We fully intend to appeal and will be questioning the Arts Council's strategic and geographical distribution of this public money."

Museums Sheffield is still in negotiation with its principal funder, Sheffield City Council, over its 2012/13 settlement. 

Julie Dore, leader of Labour-run Sheffield City Council, said: "We know Sheffield had a very strong bid and should have been recognised for its cultural offer. 

"I want to know why we were not successful and how we compared to others. We want to stand up for Sheffield, support the appeal and will await the decision with interest."

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-16698611

Happy New Year

Wishing you all a Happy New Year for 2012 from Southumbria

Blogsite - Archaeology & History of Medieval Sherwood Forest

Just came across this on my regular jaunts across the blogsphere - well worth a read.

http://sherwoodforesthistory.blogspot.com/