MEDIEVAL CHURCH IMAGES AND THE STORIES BEHIND THEM
Join us for a talk by Eleanor Townsend of Wadham College
When 11 October at 2pm
Where Sulgrave Manor, Manor Road, Sulgrave, Banbury, OX17 2SD
Book now! email: secretary@northamptonshirerecordsociety.org.uk
Free for members. £5 for guests

DOCUMENT WORKSHOP: HOW TO GET STARTED AT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ARCHIVES
When? - Saturday 4 October (10 am to 1 pm).
Where? - Northamptonshire Record Society, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton, NN4 8BQ.
How much? - £10 per person
Book now by sending an email to:
secretary@northamptonshirerecordsociety.org.uk

JOHN IRESON aka Jerson (c.1733-1818) from Arthingworth but spent most of his adult life at Haselbech. A labourer and also well-documented as a patient of Northampton General Infirmary.
More about John’s life can be seen and downloaded for free from:
archive.org/details/ires...

EVEN MORE FREE LOCAL HISTORY
‘Signposts’ – the page on our website that provides links to a wide range of free local history resources – continues to grow. We have now passed the 600 mark!
www.northamptonshirerecordsociety.org.uk/signposts

HEATWAVES IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 1818
This picture by Jean-Francois Millet dates from 1857. It captures the burdens involved on a hot day in gleaning stray stalks of wheat after the harvest.
Read more on the NRS website:

www.northamptonshirerecordsociety.org.uk/news/heat-wave

1818 HEATWAVES IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Extremely hot weather is not just a modern thing in England! The summer of 1818 was noted as a period of high temperatures and in June and July with exceptionally low rainfall.
Local evidence can be found in Clipston parish registers where, this note was added: