THE RANULF HIGDEN SOCIETY

The Ranulf Higden Society was founded in 1992 to meet the needs of historians; local historians, family historians, genealogists and others who regularly make use of documents written in Latin and Anglo-Norman.

The Society, which has the support of the Universities of Liverpool, Keele and Manchester, has a membership drawn from free-standing researchers. The officers of the society are independant scholars.

The area of interest of the society tends to cover the ancient counties of Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland, Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire. It also welcomes free-standing researchers from other parts of the country.

The Society organises three Saturday meetings each year, one at Keele, when visiting scholars are invited to give advice on particular classes of documents and their use. The location of meetings varies among a number of centres in the North West. There are also several research groups and the society publishes records in Latin and is involved in a number of major funded research projects.

Why Ranulf Higden? Higden was a Cheshire monk who entered the Abbey of St Werburgh's in Chester in 1299 and died in 1363. He wrote the Polychronicon, the most popular world history in the Middle Ages. Although he was one of the most industrious historians of the 14^th century there is no evidence that he studied at a university.

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