Lecture Series
Monthly lectures are held by The Friends of Rutland County Museum and Oakham Castle in conjunction with the Rutland Local History & Record Society. These are usually on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7:30pm, although occasionally arrangements vary.
Programme for 2026 –
Thursday 8 January, 7.30pm, Rutland County Museum. ‘Tapping Telephones in the Trenches 1915-18’ – Dr. Jim Beach.
Jim Beach is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at the University of Northampton. He is also Secretary of the Army Records Society, a specialist in military intelligence history and the author of ‘Haig’s Intelligence: GHQ and the German Army, 1916–1918’.
Thursday 12 February, 7.30pm, Rutland County Museum. ‘Women and the Crusades’ – Dr. Natasha Hodgson.
Natasha Hodgson is Associate Professor in History and Director of the Centre for Research in History, Heritage and Memory Studies (CRHHMS) at Nottingham Trent University. Her research has focused mainly on the medieval and early modern periods, with a special interest in medieval women, histories of religious warfare, and social and cultural history. She is author of ‘Women, Crusading and the Holy Land’ (Boydell, 2017) and has appeared on Radio 4 and Channel 4
Thursday 12 March, 7.30pm, Rutland County Museum. Friends of Rutland County Museum and Oakham Castle AGM followed by a talk: ‘The History of Rockingham Castle’ – Mike Burton.
Thursday 9 April, 7.30pm, Rutland County Museum. ‘Flag Fen & Must Farm Bronze Age Sites’ – Stuart Orme.
Thursday 14 May, 7.30pm, Rutland County Museum. Rutland Local History and Record Society AGM followed by a talk: ‘Prisoners of War in Leicestershire & Rutland’ – Cynthia Brown.
Thursday 11 June, 7.30pm, Rutland County Museum. ‘Pastiche for Purists – “Portmerion, Poundbury and Bekonscot too”‘ – Professor Clyde Binfield – Sheffield University.
Thursday 9 July, 7.30pm, Rutland County Museum. ‘King Edward III and Medieval Kingship’ – Dr Matthew Heffernan – University of Nottingham
June/July – Group Visit to Jewry Wall Museum – Leicester
August – No Meeting
Thursday 10 September, 7.30pm, Rutland County Museum. – TBC
Sunday 13 September, RLHRS Village Visit to Manton. – Advance bookings only.
Thursday 8 October, 7.30pm, Rutland County Museum. ‘Days of Shaking – Rutland Families in the Civil War’ – Richard Hunt
Thursday 12 November, 7.30pm, Rutland County Museum. ‘The Castles of Leicestershire & Rutland’ – Mathew Morris
December – No Meeting
Cinema for Rutland
Rutland County Museum is the venue for Cinema for Rutland, so you might like to watch a film in the unique atmosphere of our Riding School.
