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Forthcoming Events
- The fourth volume of the Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III
preserved in The National Archives. Volume IV: 1242–1248, eds. Paul Dryburgh
& Beth Hartland, technical eds. Paul Caton & José Miguel Vieira, will be
published in 2014.
Past Events:
2013
- On 26 November David Carpenter spoke about the Fine Rolls project at Sherborne school.
- On 19 November, drawing extensively on the Fine Rolls project, David Carpenter
spoke in parliament about how Magna Carta led to the development of parliament at the
opening event in parliament's celebrations of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta in
2015 and the 750th anniversary of Simon de Montfort's parliament in 1265.
- On 16 September Paul Dryburgh, former Research Fellow, spoke about the project at
The National Archives Early Career Workshop. The project was also mentioned by various
TNA staff: Nick Barratt, Sean Cunningham and James Ross.
- David Carpenter made use of the Fine Rolls project in his paper at on 23 August at
the end of project conferences for The Breaking of Britain on 23 August.
- On 6 July David Carpenter spoke about the project at on 6 July at the Border
Society: States, Governance and People, c.1150-c.1300 conference in Lancaster.
- The project was discussed by David Carpenter at a special session for schools at
the Chalke Valley History Festival on 25 June.
- On 29 May Professor Carpenter introduced the project to the Oxford History
Society.
- David Carpenter spoke about the project at the Revealing Records V Conference at
King's College, London on 24 May.
- On 12 April David Carpenter spoke about the project at a meeting of Northern
Archivists at Berwick upon Tweed.
- Graduate students at UEA were treated to a discussion of the Fine Rolls and Magna
Carta projects by David Carpenter on 15 March.
- David Carpenter spoke to students at Sevenoaks School about the Henry III and
Magna Carta projects on 11 March.
- On 24 January David Carpenter spoke about the Fine Rolls and Magna Carta Projects
to the Richmond and Twickenham Historical Association in a talk entitled 'Simon de
Montfort and the formation of Parliament'.
- On 24 January Louise Wilkinson gave a talk based on material relating to women
castellans and foresters in the Fine Rolls Project to the Canterbury Branch of the
Historical Association at Canterbury Cathedral Archives.
2012
- On 29 May David Carpenter spoke about the Fine Rolls Project and Magna Carta
Project at a meeting of the Oxford History Society.
- On 14 May the Fine Rolls Project was discussed at 'Michael Clanchy's 'From Memory
to Written Record' Colloquium' at King's College London.
- On 19 May Louise Wilkinson gave a talk on the Henry III Fine Rolls Project at the
Canterbury Christ Church University Alumni Open Day.
- On 14 April David Carpenter gave a talk based on material from the Fine Rolls
Project at a one-day conference Conference about the battle of Lewes held at
Lewes.
- David Carpenter talked about the Project to the first year King's College London
first year undergraduates on Monday 26 March.
- On Thursday 1 March David Carpenter gave a talk about the Project to the medieval
postgraduate seminar at Cambridge.
- On 29 February Louise Wilkinson gave a talk on the Henry III Fine Rolls Project at
a session on 'Bidding to Research Councils and Grant Awarding Bodies', a Staff
Development Event at Canterbury Christ Church University.
- @ahrcpress retweeted one of @Henry3FineRolls' tweets on 20 January.
2011
- This picture of Michael Wood and David Carpenter was taken during filming at TNA
in 2011:
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- David Carpenter and Michael Wood looking through the Fine Rolls at TNA.
- David Carpenter spoke about the Henry III Fine Rolls Project at the National
Archives on Thursday 17 November for the podcast: http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
- On Wednesday 2 November Louise Wilkinson gave a talk on the Henry III Fine Rolls
Project to the Department of History and American Studies at a 'ReF Awareness
Afternoon' at Canterbury Christ Church University.
- On Tuesday 1 November David Carpenter held a workshop about the Project for the MA
students at King's College London
- Paul Dryburgh drew on information from the Fine Rolls in his talk 'Mortimer
Ladies' at The Mortimer History Society Autumn Conference on 8 October.
- David Carpenter spoke about the Fine Rolls and Eleurius abbot of Pershore at the
Simon de Montfort society October 8 2011 Day School at Farncombe.
- On 5 Oct David Carpenter used material from the fine rolls in speaking about the
thirteenth-century lords of Oxted, all called Roland, to the Oxted and District Local
History Society.
- On Friday 23 September David Carpenter drew on the material available on the Fine
Rolls website in speaking about 'Reflections on the campaign of 1242 and English rule
in Gascony 1243-1252' at the Gascon Rolls Project Conference 'Anglo-Gascon Aquitaine:
Problems and Perspectives'.
- On 21 September Professor Carpenter attended the King's Awards Ceremony to receive
the 'Research Project of the Year' Award for the Henry III Fine Rolls Project.
- We are pleased to announce that the project website now features in a seminar on
the MA in Medieval History at the University of York. The website is already being
used in teaching by Professor Carpenter and Dr. Wilkinson.
- David Carpenter gave a talk about the project at a conference on Medieval Earls at
Oriel College, Oxford, on Saturday 10 September.
- On Tuesday 6 September David Carpenter used material from the website in talking
about the project at the biennial Thirteenth Century England conference in
Aberystwyth.
- On Wednesday 31 August and Thursday 1 September, David Carpenter drew on material
from the project website in speaking at conferences in Glasgow on The Melrose
Chronicle and the records of 1296-7.
- The project was represented at the Leeds International Medieval Conference in July
by Sophie Ambler.
- On the occasion of the End of Project Conference, David Carpenter did a very
useful podcast about the project for the BBC History Magazine.
- The End of Project Conference was held on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 June. Papers
focused on the particular value of the Henry III Fine rolls on a wide variety of
topics (see Conference Programme). The
conference was well attended, with 70 delegates over the two days. Those interested in
hearing the papers can access them as podcasts from the project website.
- On Wednesday 8 June a joint workshop was held by the Henry III Fine Rolls
(1216-1272) and the Gascon Rolls (1317-1468) projects. Presentation were given by the
technical staff from both projects, and similarities and differences in the editing
process for both projects were fruitfully discussed, as were areas of possible future
collaboration.
- On Friday 27 May, David Carpenter spoke about the Project at the ‘Revealing
Records’ symposium held at King’s College London.
- On Wednesday 18 May David Carpenter spoke about the Project at a symposium at
Cardiff University to mark the retirement of Professor Peter Coss. David used new
material from the fine rolls to discuss the local and national connections of the
Oxfordshire knight, Guy fitzRobert. This will form the subject of a future Fine of the
Month.
- The project blog featured on the KCL news pages on 15 April: ''William' most popular medieval name'.
- IHR's 'Reviews in History' published a review of the Fine Rolls in April: Henry III Fine Rolls
Project.
- Subscribers to the April issue of the TNA research enewsletter will be informed
about the free end of Project Conference that TNA is co-hosting.
- The Education team at The National Archives has agreed to put a link to the Fine
Rolls website when there are educational resources available on that site. A brief
guide to what is available can be found at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-subject/medieval-
political-history.htm?WT.lp=rg-3080; the Fine Rolls site is also mentioned in
a number of TNA research guides: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/french-lands.htm;
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/medieval-sources-for-family-history.htm;
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/pipe-rolls.htm;
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/medieval-customs-accounts.htm.
A link to the Fine Rolls website has now been put on TNA’s Palaeography website.
- David Thomas, Tim Gollins, Sean Cunningham and Valerie Johnson recently held a
meeting with Paul Spence, Acting Head of the Centre of Computing and Humanities, about
a potential TNA role in the future sustainability of the Henry III Fine Rolls Project
site. The meeting was a productive one, and a way forward was agreed. More news to
follow.
- On 16 March Louise Wilkinson gave a talk about the Henry III Fine Rolls Project at
a session on 'Bidding to Research Councils and Grant Awarding Bodies', a Staff
Development Event at Canterbury Christ Church University.
- On Friday 11 March David Carpenter spoke about the project to MA and doctoral
students at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
- On Tuesday 7 March David Carpenter spoke about the Project to a packed meeting of
the Enfield Branch of the Historical Association.
- On Saturday 4 March David Carpenter spoke about the Fine Rolls Project to the
annual meeting at Robinson College Cambridge of the English Episcopal Acta
Project.
- On Friday 25 February Paul Spence spoke about digital resources and the future of
traditional historical research skills at the Gerald Aylmer seminar at the Institute
for Historical Research (David Carpenter and Paul Dryburgh were also in attendance).
The Fine Rolls project was mentioned by several speakers as a model for the successful
combination of modern technology and traditional editing practices and standards,
notably by Dr. Hugh Doherty of Jesus College Oxford and Katy Mair of The National
Archives.
- On Friday 11 February David Carpenter talked about the project to a packed meeting
of the West-Kent Medico-Chirurgical Society held at Lewisham Hospital.
- On 9 February 2011, Paul Dryburgh gave a lunchtime seminar about Wiltshire in the
Fine Rolls at the Wiltshire Heritage
Museum, Devizes.
- The project team have recently been digesting comments from Ryan Kaskel, an MA
student at King’s, concerning the development of web-based tools for researchers,
programming the search facility to perform more sophisticated manipulations of the
data. This is something CCH is very much interested in pursuing and the final search
interface for the project may include the capacity to do searches for multiple
individuals and much more nuanced advanced searches.
Project Launch, 24 November 2010
- On Wednesday, 24 November 2010 the Henry III Fine Rolls Project hosted a launch in
the Weston Room (the former Rolls Chapel of the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane),
King’s College, to celebrate the release of new content on the website. The event
proclaimed and celebrated the making freely available online on the project’s website
of: 1. Translations of all the rolls down to 1272; 2. Images of all the rolls from
1248-72; 3. Search facility to the rolls now down to 1242; 4. The fifth birthday of
the ‘Fine of the Month’ feature, which now
numbers sixty articles. The launch was attended by over 70 guests including Lord
Douro, Chairman of King’s, Professor Rick Trainor, Principal of King’s, Professor Sir
Alan Wilson, AHRC Chairman, Professor Rick Rylance, AHRC Chief Executive, and
Professor Jan Drucker, Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church
University. Members of the project team, led by Professor David Carpenter, gave a
series of short talks describing the records, their administrative context and the
website, including the innovative technical features. (Click here for the transcript of the speech made on behalf of The
National Archives, a key partner in the project, by Dr. Sean Cunningham.) Guests were
also able to view original letters patent and coinage from Henry III’s long
reign.
- On 30 November the launch was featured on the History Today blog.
- The launch featured prominently in Comment the College newsletter together with a
photograph of members of the project team with the Marquis of Douro, chairman of the
College Council, Sir Alan Wilson and Professor Rick Rylance, Chair and Chief Executive
of the AHRC.
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- l-r: Prof. David Carpenter (KCL), Rick Rylance (Chief Exec, AHRC), Sir Alan Wilson
(Chairman, AHRC), Dr. Louise Wilkinson, Prof. Jan Drucker (CCUC), Dr. David Crook, the
Marquess of Douro (Chairman, KCL), Prof. Rick Trainor (Principal, KCL), Dr. Sean
Cunningham (TNA), Dr. Paul Spence (CCH).
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- l-r: Dr. Paul Spence (CCH), Dr. Sean Cunningham (TNA), Prof. David Carpenter (KCL),
Dr. Beth Hartland (FRH3, Research Fellow), Dr. David Crook, Dr. Louise Wilkinson (CCUC),
Dr. Paul Dryburgh (FRH3, Research Fellow), Dr. Paul Caton, José Miguel Vieira
(CCH).
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- l-r: Prof. David Carpenter (KCL), Rick Rylance (Chief Exec, AHRC), Sir Alan Wilson
(Chairman, AHRC), the Marquess of Douro (Chairman, KCL), Prof. Rick Trainor (Principal,
KCL).
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- Prof. David Carpenter (KCL).
2010
- The winners of the Fine of the Month Competition for 2010 are the villagers of
Nunney (Somerset) for their article ‘750 years on: the Fine Rolls and the Nunney charter’.
- The project featured in History Today in an article entitled ‘Henry
III's fines of the month go online’, December 2010 [See image below].
- The project featured in the Kentish Gazette in an article entitled ‘University
helps spread the word of Henry III’, Kentish Gazette, Canterbury and
District, 16 December 2020, p. 12 [See image below].
- On 26 November the Evening Standard carried an article about the project and its
achievements.
- On 17 & 25 November respectively, David Carpenter spoke about the project at
Sherborne School and at a graduate seminar in Oxford.
- The Project recently featured in The National Archives’ staff newsletter. This
article will shortly be available in TNA’s e-Research Newsletter.
- On 7 October David Carpenter gave a paper to the Institute of Historical
Research's European History, 1150-1500 Seminar on ‘Archbishop Langton and Magna Carta:
a Case of hypocrisy?’
- On Saturday 18 September David Carpenter spoke about the project at the autumn
conference of the Mortimer History
Society at Ludlow.
- On Wednesday 14 July David Carpenter drew on material from the Project website for
his talk at the Leeds International Medieval Congress entitled ‘Peasants in Politics
1258-1267: The Case of Wodard of Kibworth’.
- On 5 June David Carpenter, author of ‘The Battle of Lewes and Evesham’, gave a
lecture in the Cornmarket, Lewes. The event launched the Sussex Archaeological Society Battle of Lewes
Project and was be followed by a talk about how community groups can get
involved in the Henry III Fine Rolls project.
- On Wednesday 21 April David Carpenter returned to St. Albans to give a talk
entitled ‘Matthew Paris and his world’ to the Friends of St. Albans, drawing on
material from the Fine Rolls Project.
- On Monday 19 April during a visit to TNA, Rick Rylance, CEO of the AHRC, was given
a demonstration of the Fine Rolls website and a talk about the documents by project
member Dr. Adrian Jobson, Medieval Records Specialist at TNA.
- On Monday 19 April David Carpenter explained the Fine Rolls project to TV
historian and author Dan Snow, and Dan volunteered to give details about its website
on twitter. David was in Pevensey (Sussex) talking to Dan about why William the
Conqueror landed there and why he then moved to Hastings, this in connection with
Dan’s forthcoming BBC4 series about walks and marches connected with the Norman
Conquest.
- The edition of the Guardian Online of Wednesday 14 April featured an interview
with project director Dr. David Crook, concerning his ground-breaking research on the
man behind the legend of Robin Hood. This article is available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/apr/14/robin-hood-russell-crowe.
- On Saturday 20 March David Carpenter gave a talk at a conference held at Rothley
(Leicestershire) about the history of the village. He elaborated on his Fine of the Month for April 2009
which showed the light shed by the fine rolls on the struggle of the peasants of
Rothley against King Henry III and the Templars.
- On Thursday 18 March David Carpenter spoke about the Jews of Lincoln and the
Little Saint Hugh case, his topic for the Fine of the Month for January and Feburary 2010, at Reading.
- The project website was updated in February 2010 with four new Fine of the Month articles.
- At a packed symposium held at St. Albans on 13 February to celebrate the 750th
anniversary of Matthew Paris, David Carpenter spoke about the Fine Rolls project, in
the course of his talk about ‘Matthew Paris the historian’.
- David Carpenter gave talks to school pupils at Sherborne and Cardiff on 3 & 4
March, making reference to, and drawing from material on, the project website.
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- History Today, December 2010
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- Kentish Gazette, 16 December 2010
2009
- The project website was updated in January 2010.
- The newest team member, Carl Waters, was born on 28 December. Congratulations to
Beth and Keith.
- The Project featured in the AHRC’s Annual Report for 2008–2009 ‘Leading the
World’ (p. 10) as an example of ‘World Class Research and its Impact’.
- The third volume of the Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry
III preserved in The National Archives. Volume III: 1234–1242, eds. Paul
Dryburgh & Beth Hartland, technical eds. Arianna Ciula & José Miguel Vieira,
was published in the first week of December 2009.
- Members of the Project Co-Ordination Team attended the Thirteenth Century England
conference in Paris in September 2009 and Adrian Jobson spoke on ‘John of Crakehall:
the ‘forgotten’ baronial treasurer, 1258-1260’.
- Paul Dryburgh organised two sessions at the Leeds International Medieval Congress
in July 2009 as part of a collaborative strand with the Paradox of Medieval Scotland
(POMS) Project. The papers specifically on the Fine Rolls were: Tamara Lopez, ‘Editing
Cycle in a Collaborative Digital Project: The Henry III Fine Rolls Project, A Case
Study’; Beth Hartland, ‘Ireland and the Fine Rolls’; and David Crook, 'The Fine Rolls
and the Charter of the Forest’.
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- Some members of the Fine Rolls Project and POMS Project dining out in style (l-r
Matthew Hammond, Amanda Beam (the chip thief) and Prof. Dauvit Broun (POMS) and Prof.
David Carpenter and Paul Dryburgh (Fine Rolls)).
2008
- On 4 October 2008 David Carpenter spoke about Worcestershire and the Henry III
Fine Rolls Project at an event organised by the Evesham Simon de Montfort Society at
Green Hill School, Evesham.
- On Monday 23 June Paul Dryburgh, Beth Hartland, Arianna Ciula and Tamara Lopez
spoke about the project at a day-conference at the Institiute of Historical Research
focusing on the challenges and opportunities of record society publishing in the 21st
century.
- On Saturday 5 April 2008 two members of the project management committee presented
papers at a one-day conference to mark the 750th anniversary of the Provisions of
Oxford – ‘The First English
Revolution?’ – held at The National Archives, Kew. David Carpenter presented
a paper entitled ‘Matthew Paris and the crisis of 1258–9’ and Louise Wilkinson
‘Eleanor de Montfort and the Barons’ War’.
2007
- On Sunday 30 September and Monday 1 October KCL and Westminster Abbey combined to
mark the 800th anniversary of the birth of Henry III on 1 October 1207. On both days
there were talks about the reign by leading experts on such subjects as the piety of
the king, law and legislation in his reign, and Henry’s reconstruction of Westminster.
On Monday 1 October conference delegates took part in a commemoration ceremony around
the shrine of the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, which was followed by an amazing
concert of contemporary music by Gothic Voices. For the programme click here or go to the websites of KCL's History
Department and Westminster Abbey.
- Paul Dryburgh and Beth Hartland presented a paper entitled “The Develpoment of the
Fine Rolls” at the twelfth Thirteenth Century England conference (http://users.aber.ac.uk/bkw/c13england12/) held at Gregynog (Powys), 10-13
September 2007.
- A colloquium of invited medievalists and experts in digitising texts was held at
CCH on Monday 2 July, where the challenges of producing editions of texts in the
digital environment were discussed. Although the focus was on the Fine Rolls and the
processes employed in this project,
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presentations were also given by Professor Mark
Ormrod of the University of York on his AHRC-funded project to catalogue the series of
Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in The National Archives (for the results of which visit
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/) and by Harold Short and
Arianna Ciula on CCH and its range of digital humanities projects - presentation [PDF]. This
important event brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines and, it is
hoped, will prove fruitful to all in the development of the links between traditional
scholarship and digital publication in the future.
- On Tuesday 19 June, David Carpenter gave a paper entitled ‘The Henry III Fine
Rolls Project’ at a conference held at Bergen, Norway, in the British Academy Research
Network series ‘Political Culture in Norman and Angevin England (1066-1272) in
Comparative Perspective’ (for which see http://users.aber.ac.uk/bkw/britishacademynetwork/)
- The Henry III Fine Rolls Project was officially launched before an invited
audience of specialists in the Rolls Chapel (Weston Room) of the former Public Record
Office, Chancery Lane, on 22 May 2007.
2006
- A session about the Project was held at the Leeds International Medieval Congress
on Monday 10th July 2006. This was an excellent session with the audience providing
very useful feedback on what researchers would like to be able to achieve in their
searches.
- Paul Spence gave a presentation entitled ‘The Henry III Fine Rolls Project’ as
part of a panel on the scholarly use of the new TEI P5 standard ('An Odd Basket of
ODDs') at the Digital Humanities 2006 conference held at Université Paris-Sorbonne 5-9
July 2006.
- Paul Dryburgh and Beth Hartland presented a talk about the Project at the European
History, 1150-1500 Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London on 9
February 2006.
- Paul Spence and Harold Short presented a joint paper 'Fine Rolls and Anglo Saxon
Charters: Beyond the Digital Edition' at the international seminar on Digital
philology and medieval texts at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia di Arezzo, Arezzo,
Italy on 19-21 January 2006.
2005
- David Carpenter and Paul Dryburgh introduced the Project at the eleventh
Thirteenth-Century England conference held at Gregynog (Powys) between 9-12 September
2005.
- Numerous meetings of the International Advisory Committee have been held since the
inception of the Project in April 2005.
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