Fine Rolls Henry III: 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.

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.

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.

This picture of Michael Wood and David Carpenter was taken during filming at TNA in 2011:

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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)).

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’.

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,¹ 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.

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.

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.

The Henry III Fine Rolls Project

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