A new item in the SIAH document archive is now available: Nick Amor's spreadsheet of data on labour litigation, associated with his forthcoming paper in the Journal of Medieval History.

Please access it through the "Archive" link in the main menu above.

The following documents contain reports for SIAH members to study before the 2024 AGM:

Officers_Reports_to_2024_AGM.pdf

2024-03-19_SIAH_Final_Signed_Accounts_31.12.2023.pdf

The SIAH joint project with the Bodleian Library to digitise and publish online all their Suffolk charters is almost complete. To view the charters see https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/suffolk-charters/ .  The project will be launched at the SIAH AGM on 6 April 2024 at the Bury Guildhall.

2023

Wed Oct 25 1000 on Zoom: John Craig, Puritanism and reading - reconstructing the library of William Dowsing
Sat 11 Nov 1400 at Elmswell: Geoffrey Robinson, Restoring an [sic] historic Suffolk painting - Captain John Henniker-Major of the Loyal Worlingworth Volunteers 1798-1802 (+council)
Sat 25 Nov 1400 on Zoom: Keith Briggs, The Ipswich ancestors of Geoffrey Chaucer
Sat 09 Dec 1400 at Elmswell: Victoria Clark, Shrublands and the Middleton family

2024
Sat 13 Jan 1400 at Elmswell: Phil Roberts, The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey (+council)
Wed 24 Jan 1000 on Zoom: Louise Kennedy, Easton Bavents c.1480-1680 - a study of community, kinship, and coastal erosion
Sat 10 Feb 1400 at Elmswell: Tony Redman, The stones of Suffolk and some of the people who formed them. An investigation into the history of the use of building stone in Suffolk. SIAH member Tony Redman MA FRICS has spent the last few years examining every stone-built building in Suffolk and has come up with some interesting conclusions.
Sat 25 Feb 1400 on Zoom: Edward Martin, Life and death in the Bronze Age
Sat 09 Mar 1400 at Elmswell: Joanna Caruth, title to be announced (+council)

A large collection of transcriptions of Hollesley documents made by Val Dudley is now available in the SIAH document archive.  Posted 2023-02-06.

Blackbourne Community Centre, Elmswell IP30 9UH (Saturdays, starting at 1400 except for Wednesday Zoom meetings)

2022
12 Oct A Voyage of Discovery through Suffolk in 1922 (Wed at 1000, Alan Mackley, by Zoom)
22 Oct Southwold Lighthouse (Christopher Cardwell, by Zoom)
12 Nov How to be a fisherman in late-medieval Suffolk (Tom Johnson, at Elmswell. Followed by Council)
30 Nov A Virtual Tour of Bildeston (Wed at 1000, Sue Andrews, by Zoom)
10 Dec Excavations at Walton (Richard Mortimer, at Elmswell)

2023
14 Jan Elizabeth Cobbold (Vivienne Aldous, at Elmswell. Followed by Council)
28 Jan The Secord World War and Suffolk’s Coastal Air Defences (John Greenacre, by Zoom)
11 Feb Africans in East Anglia (Richard Maguire, at Elmswell)
22 Feb Union Farm, Bulcamp (Wed at 1000, Simon Roberts and others, by Zoom)
11 Mar Update on archaeological work at Lakenheath (Jo Caruth, at Elmswell, followed by Council)
25 Mar The Prunier Award for the largest herring catch (Ivan Bunn, by Zoom)

Travelling through Time: Suffolk on the move

This one-day conference was held at The Hold, Ipswich on 2022-09-24.   It considered aspects of travel in the past and their impact on Suffolk’s heritage from Roman Roads to the Age of Steam.

Program:

Dr James Albone - Roman Roads in Suffolk and their landscape legacy.
Prof Richard Smith - Suffolk’s waterways, roads and railways in national comparative historical perspective: A GIS-based study.
Prof Craig Lambert - Maritime Suffolk: Ships, Trade, and Maritime Communities, c.1565-c.1585.
Michelle Mandry - River Stour Navigation: the spirit of a working river and its legacy.
Dr Simon Bradley - Suffolk's railways: a historical excursion.

Speakers:

Dr James Albone: an archaeologist and historian, now an Inspector of Ancient Monuments with Historic England, whose PhD research was on the ‘Roman Roads in the Changing Landscape of Eastern England. c.410 – 1850’.
Richard Smith: Emeritus Professor of Historical Geography and Demography and fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. Past President of the Economic History Society.
Craig Lambert: Associate Professor in Maritime History at the University of Southampton who has written extensively on maritime logistics, maritime trade, merchant shipping, and maritime communities, c.1300-c.1600.
Michelle Mandry: Administrative Assistant with the River Stour Trust.
Simon Bradley: joint editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, and author of several volumes in the revised Buildings of England series, as well as the Sunday Times 2015 history book of the year The Railways: Nation, Network and People.

The SIAH Council approved a new policy on grants on 2022-08-20.   Please see this document: SIAH_Grants_Policy.pdf

Grant applications may be made with either version of this form:

SIAH_grant_application_form.pdf  SIAH_grant_application_form.docx