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SUMMARY:What and when were the Iron Age hillforts of Herefordshire?
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Dr Keith Ray – The literature on the Iron Age in Britain is replete with descriptions of the form and the excavation of hilltop or hillslope enclosures commonly known as ‘hillforts.’ Areas in – or close to – the upland areas of Britain sometimes have particularly dense distributions of these kinds of site encircled by banks and ditches of sometimes intricate form. Herefordshire\, in an area transitional between the uplands to the west and the lowland to the east possesses an especially high concentration. But can we regard them as a single class of site\, with similar purposes? And how can we account for such a wide variation – in size\, immediate location\, number of ramparts\, and complication of entranceways as we see today? This talk explores these questions in reference to over twenty-five years of the speaker’s engagement with these striking Herefordshire monuments.
URL:https://bromyardhistorysociety.org.uk/event/talk-at-conquest-theatre
LOCATION:The Conquest Theatre\, 6 Tenbury Rd\, Bromyard HR7 4LL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conquest Theatre talks
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SUMMARY:Surviving a Hijack
DESCRIPTION:In 1986\, Mike Thexton travelled to Pakistan to say goodbye to his brother\, who died in the Karakoram Himalaya three years before. On the way home\, his plane was hijacked at Karachi\, and he was singled out as a British passport holder to be the next person to be shot. He tells the story of that day\, and its effect on his life afterwards\, leading to the discovery in 2022 of the reason he survived the bloody shootout at the end of the siege.
URL:https://bromyardhistorysociety.org.uk/event/pan-am-flight-73
LOCATION:The Conquest Theatre\, 6 Tenbury Rd\, Bromyard HR7 4LL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conquest Theatre talks
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SUMMARY:Herefordshire Place-Names
DESCRIPTION:A talk by  Dr David Parsons\, Director of the Survey of English Place-Names\, and Reader in the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. \nIn 2026 the English Place-Name Society will be publishing a new study of the place-names of the county\, principally the work of the late Mr John Freeman. This talk will draw on that forthcoming volume to highlight the linguistic and cultural history that is illuminated by the names\, tracing the strata of British/Welsh\, English and Norman French naming that still orientate the map of modern Herefordshire. Examples will be drawn from across the county\, but special attention will be paid to the area around Bromyard.
URL:https://bromyardhistorysociety.org.uk/event/great-lakes-steamers-provisional
LOCATION:The Conquest Theatre\, 6 Tenbury Rd\, Bromyard HR7 4LL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conquest Theatre talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Grant":MAILTO:programme@bromyardhistorysociety.org.uk
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SUMMARY:Thomas Traherne\, Herefordshire’s greatest writer? An Introduction. 
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Richard Willmott\, a retired headmaster of the Dixie Grammar School and Chairman of the Traherne Association. Thomas Traherne lived in Hereford as a boy during the sieges of the Civil War. After studying at Oxford\, he became rector of Credenhill and an extraordinarily prolific writer and poet. Only a small amount of his work was published in his lifetime (he died aged 37) and the story of the gradual identification and publication of his work between the 1890s and 1990s is a remarkable one: one work was rescued from a bonfire at a rubbish tip and identified many years later in Canada! The aim of the talk will be to introduce Traherne within his seventeenth-century context and hopefully encourage some of you to delve deeper into his writings.
URL:https://bromyardhistorysociety.org.uk/event/thomas-traherne-herefordshires-greatest-writer-an-introduction
LOCATION:The Conquest Theatre\, 6 Tenbury Rd\, Bromyard HR7 4LL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conquest Theatre talks
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