Meetings 2007/2008 61st Season Lectures
2007 Sept 28......."Old English" comes to Leicester......Richard Gill (Architectural Historian) Oct 12..... Annual General Meeting, followed by: Environmental Archaeology in Leicester and Leicestershire by Angela MonktonNov 2........A Brief History of Leicester Royal Infirmary......Clive Harrison Nov 23........Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration 2008 Jan 11........Medieval Wall Paintings recently discovered in the East Midlands......Miriam Gill Feb 15... Health and Disease in Medieval Leicester......Harriet Jacklin Mar 7...... The Gypsies of Leicestershire: 17th to 19th centuries......David H. Smith* (*did not speak; substitute speaker: Norman Pilgrim) Apr 27......The W G Hoskins Lecture
Sadly, the talk originally scheduled for this memorial lecture - W.G. Hoskins and Devonshire, with a sidelight on Leicestershire by Prof. Harold Fox - had to be cancelled due to Professor Fox's sudden death during August. Links > Professor Harold Fox - Funeral | Obituary
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