ARCHAEOLOGIST Simon Roffey will be the next speaker at the Winchester Catholic History Group.
Dr Roffey, of Winchester University, has spent several years overseeing the excavations at the medieval leper hospital of St Mary Magdalen on farmland off Alresford Road.
His talk will be on Monday March 5.
The group holds ten lectures a year on the first Monday of the month (other than a Bank holiday).
Talks start at 7.30pm and lasts for approximately one hour with questions afterwards in the main lecture room at the Parish Centre next to St Peters Catholic Church on Jewry Street.
In September the group will move back to the renovated Milner Hall on St Peter Street.
The programme for the rest of the season is:
Monday April 9, Dr Cindy Wood - University of Winchester, The Chantry Chapels of Winchester Cathedral;
Monday May 14, Jon Cannon - Author/University of Bristol, English Cathedrals as Time Machines;
Monday June 4, Father Andrew Moore, The History of Plainchant;
Monday July 2, The Roy Wake Memorial Lecture, Prof Martin Biddle - Hertford College, University of Oxford, The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, recent Discoveries, New Perspectives.
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