The meetings of the New South Wales Branch of the Richard III Society are held at The Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney at 2pm on Saturdays, unless time and venue is otherwise indicated.  Please remember to bring your own mug for afternoon tea.

Visitors are most welcome!

In addition to our meetings in Sydney, our members in the ACT and surrounding areas get together on an informal basis and are always happy to welcome newcomers.  For more information please contact canberra@richardiii-nsw.org.au.

Events of the NSW Branch are marked in red, and those which are not branch-specific in blue. If you require further information on any of these events, please contact info@richardiii-nsw.org.au.

(Events by other branches or organisations are included in italics.  For events organised by the Richard III Society in the UK visit their website directly.)

Saturday, 4 September 2010, Sydney:  Committee Meeting

Saturday, 4 September 2010, Melbourne:  AGM

At 2 pm.  For more info please contact the Victoria Branch.

Saturday, 2 October 2010, Leicester, UK

The Richard III Society’s AGM and Members’ Day will take place at Leicester Adult Education College, 2 Wellington Street, Leicester LE1 6HL.   Further details will be given in the June Ricardian Bulletin but, in the meantime, please put this date in your diary.

Saturday, 2 October 2010, Melbourne:

Speaker:  Kaye Turnbull on “Elizabeth Lambert, aka Jane Shore”.  For more info please contact the Victoria Branch.

Sunday, 3 October 2010, Sydney :  Richard’s Birthday Lunch (Social Event)

Lunch at 12 noon.  Venue to be advised.  For more information or if you would like to attend, please contact social@richardiii-nsw.org.au.

Saturday, 9 October 2010, Sydney:  Annual General Meeting

Speaker:  Win Tonkin on “The Honours of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny”

Saturday, 13 November 2010, Sydney:  Committee Meeting

Thursday, 25 November 2010, Melbourne:  Christmas Dinner

At 7 pm. For more info please contact the Victoria Branch.

Saturday, 11 December 2010:  General Meeting

Speaker:  Dorothea Preis on “Medieval Pottery” (to be confirmed).  Christmas celebration.

Saturday, 12 February 2011: General Meeting

Speaker: Dr Penny Bishop on “Plagues and Pestilences in the Middle Ages”.

Saturday, 12 March 2011: Committee meeting

Sunday, 20 March 2011:  Commemoration of Queen Anne’s death (Social Event)

Venue to be decided.

Thursday, 24 March 2011, to Saturday, 27 March 2011:  Blood and Roses

Special Interest Weekend on the Wars of the Roses at Christ Church, Oxford.  For more information click here.

Saturday, 9 April 2011:   General Meeting

Speaker:  Dorothea Preis on the Blood and Roses Conference held in the UK in March.  Draw for 3 Scrabble speakers in August.

Saturday, 7 May 2011:  Committee meeting

Saturday, 11 June 2011:  General meeting

Speaker:  Isolde Martyn on “Medieval London”.

Saturday, 9 July 2011:  Committee meeting

Friday 5 to Sunday 7 August 2011:  Australasian Convention

To be held at The Victoria Hotel, 215 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, Tel. 03/9669 9978  (more information to follow)

Saturday, 13 August 2011:  General meeting

Speakers:  those attending Australasian Convention in Melbourne to report on the highlights of the weekend; three Scrabble speakers, who were (drawn at the April general meeting.

Sunday, 21 August 2011:  Commemoration of Richard III’s death at Bosworth in 1485 (Social Event)

Venue to be decided.

Saturday, 10 September 2011:  Committee meeting

Saturday, 9 October 2011:   Annual General Meeting

Speaker: to be decided

Saturday, 12 November 2011:  Committee meeting

Saturday, 10 December 2011:  General meeting

Speaker:  to be decided; Christmas celebration

Meetings of the Western Australia Branch are held:

At 2.15 pm on the 4th Saturday of the month at Belmont Sports & Recreation Club, Abernethy Road, Cloverdale.  For more info please contact the Western Australia Branch.