Newsletter

KHAS MATTERS Last Month’s Meeting:   Apart from the AGM, thanks to KHAS member David Morse, we also heard a very fascinating - and personal - account of the role of…

KHAS MATTERS Last Month’s Talk: Graham Sutherland gave us an entertaining talk on some of the darker goings-on in Mediaeval (& later) Warwick.Tonight’s Meeting is the AGM: The AGM will…

The Christmas Meeting: Our December meeting was, as always, greatly enjoyed and appreciated by all who could be there. On this occasion we were joined from Kenilworth Castle by "Queen…

KHAS MATTERS Last Month: Ben Wallace, a keeper of the Historic Environment Record held by WCC, gave us a fascinating and varied insight into the benefits to archaeology offered by…

KHAS MATTERS Tonight: Tonight John Burton will be talking about a Warwickshire ‘favourite’, under the title of ‘By George! Why we still love George Eliot’ CHANGE-ROUND OF SPEAKERS On November…

KHAS MATTERS Tonight: To launch our winter programme (yes, it is only 108 days to Christmas!) Dr. Roger White of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at Birmingham will give us…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY Newsletter June 2019 KHAS Affairs Last Month: Angie Bolton made a return visit to Kenilworth (20 years on!) to tell us how the Portable Antiquities…

KHAS Affairs Last Month: Caroline Rann (Archaeology Projects Manager at Archaeology Warwickshire) outlined the discovery of archaeology on the new High School site. There had been no record of crop…

March 2019 Newsletter- KHAS Affairs It is with great regret and sadness that we must advise of the death of Betty Sunley, a much respected and loved member of KHAS.…

KHAS Affairs Last month: We were able to experience the remarkable virtual reality tour of the Castle which has been /is continuing to be developed by a KHAS member Then…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY KHAS Affairs Last month: Laurence Ince, from Solihull, has been working for many years on the history of his wife’s family, the Holbeches of Alvechurch.…

KHAS Affairs We’re back from the Summer Break - not really a break as much has been going on. A trip to Temple Balsall where Rev. Kathy Lloyd Roberts gave…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - Newsletter June 2018 KHAS Affairs Last Month: Roy Smart gave us a very dramatic, nay melodramatic, account of the attempts of an early aviator, Percy Pilcher,…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - Newsletter May 2018 KHAS Affairs Last Month: Dr David Symons took us behind the scenes of one of the most stunning archaeological finds in the Midlands in…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY Newsletter April 2018 KHAS Affairs Last Month: John Ruddick gave us a lively talk on Coventry Charterhouse: Past, Present & Future. Of the original 10…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY SOCIETY  March 2018 Newsletter KHAS Affairs Last Month: We held the Society's AGM at which a revised Constitution was adopted and the Committee was re-elected, with Chris…

Kenilworth History & Archaeology Society - January 2018 Newsletter  KHAS Affairs Data Protection In order to comply with the latest legislation, the Society is required to keep records of members' explicit…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - December 2017 Newsletter » Last Month: Dr John Hunt on Warriors, Warlords and Saints – themes in Mercian history. Solid stuff, full of meat and excellent in…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - October 2017 Newsletter » Last Month: Norman Madden recounted the fate of some of the Elizabethan recusants and their supportive priests, particularly those associated with Baddesley…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - September 2017 Newsletter » Last Meeting in June, Jan Cooper: “The Footsteps of the White Monks”. A comprehensive and interesting account of the Cistercian Order…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - June 2017 Newsletter Guide Books Richard Morris was an inveterate collector of guide books, particularly of places of architectural note. Jenny has so many of…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - May 2017 Newsletter Guide Books Richard Morris was an inveterate collector of guide books, particularly of places of architectural note. Jenny has so many of…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - April 2017 Newsletter Guide Books Richard Morris was an inveterate collector of guide books, particularly of places of architectural note. Jenny has so many…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - March 2017 Newsletter Guide Books Richard Morris was an inveterate collector of guide books, particularly of places of architectural note. Jenny has so many of…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - January 2017 Newsletter » Last Meeting: Before we indulged ourselves in an orgy of food and drink, Chairman Jan pronounced the Siege well and truly…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - December 2016 Newsletter » Last Meeting: We learnt a lot about the strange adventures of Bertie Greatheed from Anne Langley. The tale was almost…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - November 2016 Newsletter » Last Meeting: Alan Godfrey spoke about Kinwarton – the ‘pint-pot parish’. He amazed us at just how much history can be…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - October 2016 Newsletter » Last Meeting: Dr Nick Humphris gave a detailed account the archæology of Chedworth Roman Villa, particularly where the recent work has…

  » Last Meeting:  A special private meeting in the Castle, starting in the Gatehouse,  to  commemorate the 750th anniversary of the Great Siege of Kenilworth.  This  was a  talk…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY June 2016 Newsletter » Last Month: Dr Richard Buckley of Leicester University, who has been the lead figure in the whole of the “Richard III Project”…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - May 2016 Newsletter » Last Month: Last month Roy Smart gave us an entertaining account of the colourful life of The Last Naval Hero: David, 1st…

Dear KHAS Member, It has been decided to reinstate the circulation of the monthly Newsletter by email for those who require it. As mentioned previously, it is available each month…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - April 2016 Newsletter » Last Month: We were unexpectedly privileged to welcome Julie Crawshaw, the Project Manager, no less, for the “New Place Project” which operates…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - March 2016 Newsletter » Last month at the AGM, Phil Stock was elected to the Committee in lieu of Barbara Platten, who had resigned. No other…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - January 2016 Newsletter Notice of the AGM next month. Barbara Platten will, sadly, be resigning from the Committee for personal reasons, so that there will…

DECEMBER 2015 NEWSLETTER Advanced notice of the AGM in February 2016. Barbara Platten will, sadly, be resigning from the Committee for personal reasons, so that there will be a vacancy.…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY - 9th November 2015 At the Extraordinary General Meeting held last month, the membership was asked whether it was prepared to extend the licensing of…

KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHÆOLOGY SOCIETY October 2015 Newsletter - 12th October 2015 This month we have to have an Extraordinary General Meeting before the main business of the evening because things…