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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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