To mark the centenary of the Oxfordshire Record Society, the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society is pleased to announce a special lecture by Professor Mark Bailey on ‘Manorial Records as a Source for English (and Oxfordshire) History’. The lecture will be held at Rewley House, Wellington Square, Oxford on Tuesday 11 February at 5.30 pm. OAHS lectures are free and open to everyone.

The lecture will provide a brief introduction to manorial records, including how to find them through a national online catalogue (the Manorial Documents Register) which has recently been updated for Oxfordshire. Hundreds of thousands of these documents survive from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, representing a superb source for local and national history unparalleled in the world. Examples will be drawn from medieval manorial records in general, and Oxfordshire in particular.

Mark Bailey is Professor of Late Medieval History at the University of East Anglia, author of The English Manor (2002), and a member of the Manorial Documents Register Advisory Board. He drew extensively upon manorial records when delivering the Ford Lectures in British History at Oxford in 2019.