Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle

Diocesan Societies: North East Catholic History Society

North East Catholic History Society www.rcdhn.org.uk/nechs

 

PROGRAMME OF LECTURES AND EVENTS 2010— 2011

 All lectures will take place on Wednesdays at 2..15pm at St Andrew’s. The Society welcomes non-members at its lectures (fee £1).

AGM

The Mass and A.G.M, to include a short talk on the Douai Bible, will take place at 2.15pm and 2.45pm respectively on

1st Sept 2010 at St Andrew’s, Worswick Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

 LECTURES

6th Oct 2010 George Thornton: St. Robert of Newminster & the early Cistercians..

3rd Nov 2010 Alexander Lock: The qualifications as adorn a gentleman - the education & upbringing of Sir Thomas Gascoigne of Parlington Hall.

1st Dec 2010 Richard Lomas: Bp. Tunstall, the man who rode two horses at once.

2nd Feb 2011 Peter Hills: The Widdringtons - a Northumberland Family and the 1715 Jacobite Rising

2nd Mar 2011 Leo Gooch: By secret creeks and landing places - Smuggling and Elizabethan Recusancy in North East England

 

EXCURSIONS

Wednesday 18th May 2011: Bede’s World, Jarrow & St. Peter’s, Monkwearmouth.

Saturday 18th June 2011: Markenfield Hall, N.Yorks.

The above excursions, and the lectures, may be subject to alteration.