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:
- Diary 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 156 (June 2024)
- Diary of events
- General Meeting: Hereford Cathedral – 20th April 2024
- Noel Boston’s brass inscription
- Fragments of brass in private possession in France
- The brass of Sir Peter von Stettenberg (d.1428) at Bronnbach, Germany
- ‘Blue Peter’ and brasses
- An anagram on a brass
- Betjeman and brasses
- Notes on books, articles and the internet
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Bulletin 155 (February 2024)
- Diary of events
- Notices and news
- The Flemish incised slab at Gressenhall, Norfolk, revealed
- The Van Thielt slab at St. Olave, Hart Street, London
- A tangle of Webbes
- In memoriam: Richard James Busby (1938-2023)
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Bulletin 154 (October 2023)
- A message from our new President
- Diary of events
- Annual General Meeting: Ardingley, Sussex – 8th July 2023
- A.G.M. formal business
- General Meeting: British Museum, London – 12th September 2023
- The brass of Johannes von Geissel, d.1864, in Cologne Cathedral
- The revival of the M.B.S. in 1934
- Sixty years a member
- The discovery of a brass indent at St. Peter’s, Colchester
- An addendum to ‘The Victor of St. George’s Cay: Commander John Ralph Moss, R.N. (1759-99)’
- In memoriam: Clive Burgess (1952-2023)
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Bulletin 153 (June 2023)
- Diary of events
- General Meeting: Haverstock Hill, London NW5 – 29th April 2023
- The brass to Philippa de Beauchamp, d.1383, at Necton, Norfolk
- The discovery of a brass indent at Mundon, Essex
- The Courtenay-Huddesfeld brass at Shillingford, Devonshire
- The brass to George Estye, d.1601, at St. Mary’s, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
- An early enthusiast: Reginald Grove – postscript
- Winchester Cathedral
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Bulletin 152 (February 2023)
- Diary of events
- Joint Symposium: King's Lynn – 2nd to 4th September 2022
- General Meeting: Trotton, West Sussex – 15th October 2022
- Two for one: twin medieval inscriptions at Alfreton, Derbyshire and Launde Priory, Leicestershire
- The brass of Lady Margery Arundell (d.1420) at Antony: the most spectacular early brass in Cornwall?
- The brasses of Hans von Dörnberg and his wives in St. Elisabethkirche, Marburg-an-der-Lahn, Hesse, Germany
- Jonathan Ali Essay Prize
- Monuments of the Wars of the Roses: A one-day Colloquium in honour of Mark Downing, F.S.A. – Guildhall, Leicester – 21st October 2023
- Monumental brasses in literature, art and film: An addendum
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Bulletin 151 (October 2022)
- Diary of events
- Essay competition
- Annual General Meeting: Saffron Walden, Essex – 16th July 2022
- A.G.M. formal business
- The brasses for Sir John and Lady Joan de Northwode, c.1330, at Minster Abbey church, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
- The incised slabs and brasses of the Priory of St. Bartholomew, London
- ‘Young Man of Brass’: a brass-rubbing tour of Norfolk in the early 1970s
- The brass to Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield (d.1854), in Lichfield Cathedral
- Notes on books, articles and the internet
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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