Public lectures

2017/18

• 12 June 2018: Dr William Purkis (University of Birmingham) - 'A treasury of heavenly things'. Extracting the Sacred from the 'Colonial' Kingdom of Jerusalem (the first of The Housley Lectures in Medieval Mediterranean History)
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• 29 May 2018: Dr Charlotte Bolland (National Portrait Gallery, London) - Plantagenet Portraits in the 15th and 16th Centuries: Contemporary Contexts for the Image of Richard III (the first annual Richard III Public Lecture)
• 8 May 2018: Dr Michael Lewis (The British Museum and Portable Antiquities Scheme) - Myths and Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry

2013/14

• Dr Chris Fern (The Staffordshire Hoard project) - Battlefield Spoils to High art in early Anglo-Saxon England

2012/13

• Professor Dominic Powlesland (Landscape Research Centre) - From Landscape to Lostscape

2011/12

• 17 May 2012: Dr Helen Geake (University of Cambridge) - The Sword in the Hoard: Anglo-Saxon swords in the Staffordshire Hoard
• 10 May 2012: Dr Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford) - Fictive Siblings in Medieval English Literature
• 29 March 2012: Dr John Goodall (Country Life) - The English Castle

2010/11

• 17 March 2011: Dr Nicholas Perkins (English, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford) - People Trafficking in Chaucer
• 24 February 2011: Professor Ad Putter (English, University of Bristol) - Stanza Linking in Middle English Verse: Contexts and Associations
• 17 February 2011: Professor Ian Wood (History, University of Leeds) - The Early Middle Ages, from the Ancien Regime to National Socialism

2008/09

• 13 May 2009: Dr Nora Berend (University of Cambridge) - Crusader rhetoric and local response in the Iberian peninsula, Hungary and Poland
• 6 May 2009: Professor Ralph Hanna (University of Oxford) - The Matter of Fulk: Romance and History in Fourteenth Century England
• 18 March 2009: Dr Carola Hicks (University of Cambridge) - The Bayeux Tapestry, Napoleon and the Nazis
• 25 February 2009: Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre (University of Nottingham) - The Wollaton Manuscripts: poetry and prayers from a new manuscript library
• 18 February 2009: Professor Derek Pearsall (University of York) - The Passion of Criseyde in Chaucer and Shakespeare 

2007/08

• 6 March 2008: Dr Andy Merrills (Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester) - "The pump don't work 'cause the Vandals took the handles": the Vandals in the Modern Imagination
• 21 February 2008: Dr Carl Phelpstead (School of English, Communication and Philosophy, University of Wales, Cardiff) - After the Plague: Death and Judgement in Late Medieval Literature
• 24 January 2008: Bernard O'Donoghue (Wadham College, University of Oxford) - On translating Old and Middle English