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De Vere Society Spring 2009 AGM
Saturday 9th May
Surrey History Centre, Woking
For
our Spring AGM meeting this year we have split the day into
two halves: the morning session (after coffee/ registration)
comprises the DVS AGM and a paper by Noemi Magri. The afternoon
session will be a joint enterprise with the Surrey History
Centre and open to the public. As an introduction to this
session the DVS will present a short talk on the Authorship
Question and this will be followed by two talks given by archivists
from the SHC.
The
running order is as follows:
10.00
Registration, coffee/tea. DVS Chairman Elizabeth Imlay
in the chair
10.30
Welcome to the Surrey History Centre by Julian Pooley
who also discusses, ''Very Various and Useful Labours: John
Nichols and Sixteenth Century Manuscript Studies'.
11.15
Noemi Magri – 'Hamlet's The Murder of Gonzago'
in contemporary documents.
12.00
DVS AGM
12.45
Lunch
2.00
-2.30 Ms Eddi Jolly – 'The Authorship Question
and the De Vere Society'
2.30-3.00
Ms Isabel Sullivan, archivist at the SHC –'Cataloguing
the Loseley manuscripts'.
3.00
Tea
3.30-4.30
Mike Page senior archivist – 'A Tudor Gentleman
of Surrey: Sir William More of Loseley'. Focussing on Sir
William More, builder of Loseley Park, who was a friend of
many of the great figures of the Elizabethan court and a trusted
servant of the Queen herself. He was a participant in the
dramas of the Reformation, the execution of Mary Queen of
Scots and the Spanish Armada, and his surviving papers document
his life in compelling detail.
4.30-4.45
Discussion and close
Booking
Price: £20.00 per person, including Buffet lunch
To
reserve a place (or places), please contact:
Kevin Gilvary
DVS Hon Treasurer
6 Rosedale Close
Titchfield
Fareham
PO14 4EL
Tel
+ 44 (0) 1329 842689
e-mail: kevingilvary@btinternet.com
You
may renew your subscriptions by cheque to the Hon Treasurer
at above address.
Getting
there
Surrey History Centre
130 Goldsworth Road
Woking
GU21 6ND
The
SHC has good parking and is about 10 minutes’ walk from
Woking station, which is about 25 mins from London Waterloo.
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