Bulletin (Newsletter)
The Bulletin (newsletter) is published three times a year in February, June and October.
There are 20 A4 pages in each issue. It is fully illustrated and usually contains:
- Dairy of events
- Notices
- Reports on past meetings, conferences and excursions
- Brief articles related to brasses and incised slabs
- Book reviews
- Notes on books and articles on brasses, incised slabs and related ecclesiology.
The Bulletin is available online from 2010 onwards.
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Bulletin 150 (June 2022)
- President’s farewell message
- Diary of events
- General Meeting: Virtual – 19th February 2022
- General Meeting: Stamford, Lincolnshire – 2nd April 2022
- A brass at Ashby St. Ledgers reassessed
- A palimpsest discovery at Butterton, Staffordshire
- An early enthusiast: Reginald Grove – Part II
- Johann Rode (d.1477) and his brass at St. Petri Dom, Bremen, Germany
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Bulletin 150 (June 2022) -
Bulletin 149 (February 2022)
- Diary of events
- General Meeting: Virtual – 11th September 2021
- The Martyn family brasses at Long Melford, Suffolk
- An early enthusiast: Reginald Grove – Part I
- The revival of the religious life in Victorian Britain reflected in memorial brasses
- In memoriam: Jennifer Ward (1938-2022)
- Notes on books, articles and the internet
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Bulletin 149 (February 2022) -
Bulletin 148 (October 2021)
- Annual General Meeting: Virtual – 10th July 2021
- A.G.M. formal business
- The lost brass to Roger Brabazon, 1498, formerly in Old St. Paul’s Cathedral
- The Strachleigh brass at Ermington, Devonshire
- Post-Reformation cadaver and skeleton brasses
- Conwy Lloyd Morgan: brass rubber
- Notes on books, articles and the internet
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Bulletin 148 (October 2021) -
Bulletin 147 (June 2021)
- General Meeting: Virtual – 20th March 2021
- ‘Malice aforethought’: A 14th-century murder recorded in brass
- The incised slab to John and Elizabeth Coplestone, 1458 at Colebrooke, Devonshire
- The Dartmouth brass formerly at Holy Trinity, Minories
- A proposed brass for St. Mary’s, Bury, Lancashire
- A touch of brass
- The brass to Heinrich III von Werther, 1397 at Angermuseum, Erfurt, Germany
- Notes on books, articles and the internet
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Bulletin 147 (June 2021) -
Bulletin 146 (February 2021)
- Annual General Meeting: Virtual – 17th October 2020
- A.G.M. formal business
- The brass of John Waltham, Bishop of Salisbury (d.1395) in Westminster Abbey: a postscript
- William Gonson's funerary agreement
- John Pyke, 'magister scholarum'
- Philanthropy and brasses after the Reformation
- Facing east or west?: The brass to Bishop William Vaughan (1814-1902) at St. Mary and St. Boniface R.C. Cathedral, Plymouth
- Notes on books, articles and the internet
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Bulletin 146 (February 2021) -
Bulletin 145 (October 2020)
- ‘Spiritual Gentlemen’?: Rank and status among the late medieval clergy: the evidence of monumental brasses
- Testamentary requests for brasses in Bedfordshire churches
- Between England and Spain: Pedro Dávila y Zúñiga, 1st Marquess of Las Navas, 1498-1567
- Notes on books, articles and the internet
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Bulletin 145 (October 2020) -
Bulletin 144 (June 2020)
- Diary of events
- Meeting report: Willesden, Middlesex – 26th October 2019
- Heart imagery on medieval English brasses
- Further testamentary requests for brasses in Suffolk churches
- Plague and pestilence: a recurring pandemic
- The brass to Abbot Heribert von Lülsdorf (1481) revisited:
Kornelimünster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Notes on books, articles and the internet
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Bulletin 144 (June 2020) -
Bulletin 143 (February 2020)
- Diary of events
- A.V.B. Norman Research Trust
- Meeting report: Walthamstow, Essex – 28th September 2019
- Testamentary brasses and related slabs in late medieval Suffolk parish churches
- The brass to Sir Brian Rouclyff (d.1494) and wife Joan at Cowthorpe, Yorkshire
- Neo-Gothic brasses in Cologne Cathedral
- Notes on books, articles and the internet
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Bulletin 143 (February 2020) -
Bulletin 142 (October 2019)
- Diary of events
- Annual General Meeting: Oxford – 13th July 2019
- A.G.M. formal business
- The fixing and unfixing of monumental brasses
- The rape and restoration of a Surrey brass
- Major-General James Wolfe: the Captor of Quebec, 1759
- The brass rubbing exploits of T.E. Lawrence
- Where is it now?
- Notes on books, articles and the internet
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Bulletin 142 (October 2019) -
Bulletin 141 (June 2019)
- Diary of events
- In memoriam: Jonathan Ali (1969-2019)
and William Lack (1945-2019) - Meeting Report:
Fairford, Gloucestershire – 30th March 2019
by Challe Hudson - The marble quarry at Vaudey Abbey, Lincolnshire
by Jon Bayliss - Fragments of medieval tomb slabs at St. Paul’s Cathedral
by Stephen Freeth and Derrick Chivers - A curious indent at Southwold, Suffolk
by Philip Whittemore - The Sibell Tyger
by Roger Barnes - Chesham Bois: a hidden connection between LSW.IV and V
by Mike Harris - Notes on books, articles and the internet
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Bulletin 141 (June 2019) -
Bulletin 140 (February 2019)
- Diary of Events
- Meeting Reports:
Study Day at Cobham, Kent – 29th September 2018
by Challe Hudson
Tottenham, Middlesex – 27th October 2018
by Challe Hudson - St. Maria-im-Capitol, Köln, Germany
by Hans Gerd Dormagen - The importance of documentation
by William Lack - Wills and Brasses: surviving examples
by Philip Whittemore - Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet
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Bulletin 140 (February 2019) -
Bulletin 139 (October 2018)
- Dairy of Events
- Annual General Meeting: St. Andrew’s church,
Rochford, Essex – 14th July 2018 - A.G.M. Formal Business
- Medieval knight on the move from
Sutton to Rochford, Essex
by Martin Stuchfield - The Fortescue Brass at Weare Giffard, Devonshire
by Philip Whittemore - Echoes of the Great War in Midlands churches
by Rosalind Willatts - The Brass to Johann II, Duke of Kleve, 1521, and his wife
Mechtild, 1505, in St. Mariae Himmelfahrt, Kleve, Germany
by Kevin Herring - Adam Smallwood’s Latten Cross
by Nicholas Rogers - Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet
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Bulletin 139 (October 2018) -
Bulletin 138 (June 2018)
- Diary of Events
- Meeting Reports:
Edmonton, Middlesex – 28th October 2017
by Challe Hudson
Eton College – 21st April 2018
by Rosalind Willatts - Joining the Dots
by Jerome Bertram - Further Indents at York Minster
by Philip Whittemore - Flemish Brasses in Funchal Cathedral, Madeira
by Stephen Freeth - New Fragments of Brasses at the Museum of London
by Stephen Freeth - Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet
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Bulletin 138 (June 2018) -
Bulletin 137 (February 2018)
- Diary of Events
- Meeting Report:
Study Day at Salisbury – 30th September 2017
by Rosalind Willatts - “We’re all tooooombed……” – ‘Loci Sepulcralis: Pantheons
and other Places of Memory and Burial in the Middle Ages’ –
a conference in Batalha, Portugal, 21st-23rd September 2017 - Another addition to the Herefordshire County Series volume
- ‘Shining with every Virtue’?:
John Hornley, vicar of Dartford, 1442-77
by David Lepine - Newdegate must fall
by Jerome Bertram - Brass Rood Statues at Holy Trinity Church, Ingham, Norfolk
by David Stannard - Book Review
- Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet
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Bulletin 137 (February 2018) -
Bulletin 136 (October 2017)
- Diary of Events
- Annual General Meeting
Bristol Grammar School – 29th July 2017
by Rosalind Willatts - A.G.M. Formal Business
by Janet McQueen - An early London brass-slab in need of help at Hever, Kent
by Julian Luxford - The brass of John Killigrew, esquire,
at Budock, Cornwall: some new evidence
by Nigel Saul - An addition to the Herefordshire list at Aconbury Priory
by Sally Badham - Portable Antiquities Scheme
- A Plea for help
by George McHardy - Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet
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Bulletin 136 (October 2017) -
Bulletin 135 (June 2017)
- Diary of Events
- Meeting Report:
All Saints North Street, York – 8th April 2017
by Rosalind Willatts - A Memorial Brass on Orkney
by Hugh and Sandra Guilford - ‘Monumentum aere perennius’? The ongoing search
forprecious-metal effigial tombs in medieval Europe
(1080-1430)
by Sophie Oosterwijk and Sally Badham - Opus Anglicanum:
Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery
Victoria and Albert Museum, October 2016 – February 2017
by David Lepine - The Brass to Margarete of Saxony, Duchess of
Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1528, in the Herderkirche, Weimar
by Kevin Herring - Book Review
- Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet
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Bulletin 135 (June 2017) -
Bulletin 134 (February 2017)
- Diary of Events
- Meeting Reports:
St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate, Kent – 21st September 2016
by Nicholas Rogers
London, St. Bartholomew-the-Less – 5th November 2016
by Penny Williams - ‘Valour of the highest order’: The Brass to Leslie Manser,
V.C., 1942, at Radlett, Hertfordshire
by Philip Whittemore - Commissioning a new Brass Conservation Workshop
by Simon Nadin - The Dutch artist Maerten van Heemskerck and his
connections with the brass in St. Laurenskerk, Alkmaar
by Kevin Herring - Two Brass Fragments in Scunthorpe Museum
by Stephen Freeth - Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet
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Bulletin 134 (February 2017) -
Bulletin 133 (October 2016)
- Diary of Events
- Meeting Report
Study Day at Exeter Cathedral – 28th May 2016
by Rosalind Willatts - Exploring the Heritage of St. Michael and All Angels Church,
Great Tew, Oxfordshire – 18th June 2016
by Janet McQueen and Charlotte Stanford - Annual General Meeting
Winchester, St. Cross – 16th July 2016
by Rosalind Willatts - A.G.M. Formal Business
by Janet McQueen - The Athol Brass at Ashford, Kent
by Philip Whittemore - Historic Brasses return to Gloucester
by Robert Tucker - Recovery at Wentworth, Yorkshire
- Sledmere War Memorial, Yorkshire
by Peter Hacker - Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet
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Bulletin 133 (October 2016) -
Bulletin 132 (June 2016)
- Diary of Events
- Meeting Report
Chrishall, Essex – 9th April 2016
by Rosalind Willatts - The Will of Sir John de la Pole of Chrishall, Essex
by Nigel Saul - John Travers (Jack) Cornwell, V.C., 1900-16
by Jonathan Ali - The slab to Hinrich Gerdener, 1471, at Isenhagen, Germany
by Reinhard Lamp - Lost in the Great Fire:
the Monuments of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London
by Philip Whittemore - A quirky external brass at Minehead
by Peter Hacker - A Memorial at Agincourt
by Derrick Chivers - Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet
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Bulletin 132 (June 2016) -
Bulletin 131 (February 2016)
- Diary of Events
Meeting Report:
Newark, Nottinghamshire – 17th October 2015
by Wilf White - Brass and Glass: George Washington’s Ancestor –
Laurence Washington of Sulgrave, Northamptonshire
by Philip Whittemore - Dedication of Westminster College Chapel, Cambridge
in 1919
by Nicholas Rogers - The Brass to Lieutenant R.L. Ward, 1916,
formerly in St. Mary’s Soho, (Charing Cross) London
by David Meara - Fragments from Dame Kateryne Grey’s monument,
St. Swithun’s, East Grinstead, Sussex
by Caroline Metcalfe - Book Review
- Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet
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Bulletin 131 (February 2016) - Diary of Events
Right: detail from the monumental brass to Margaret, (daughter and heir of Sir John Bernard), wife of Thomas Peyton, esq., 1484, from Isleham, Cambridgeshire. Photo: ©Martin Stuchfield