Mapping Medieval Chester

Sue Hughes at the Grosvenor Museum has just sent us the following report on the recent ‘Minstrels’ Court’ event – it sounds like great fun. If living history and interactive events capture your imagination, then please do come and join us at the forthcoming ‘Mapping Medieval Chester Festival’ (Saturday 29th August). For further information see the earlier blog post or contact the Grosvenor Museum.

Minstrel’s Court Event

A successful Minstrels’ Court helped celebrate medieval Chester and publicise the Mapping Medieval Chester Festival on 29 August 2009.  ‘Medieval’ Musicians were presented with their licences to play by Reverend Chesters and are now safe from being arrested as vagabonds for another year.

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An important dimension of the Mapping Medieval Chester project is our partnership with the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. Sue Hughes, the Museum and Education Manager, is one of the members of our project Advisory Committee, and we’re benefiting from the museum’s enormous store of resources and expertise relating to Chester local history. We’re hoping that our project will help to develop and extend our understanding of the medieval city and the ways in which its different cultural communities imagined and represented the urban landscape around them. We’ll be working together with the Grosvenor Museum to run our public workshop in Chester in summer 2009, and are already planning lots of exciting activities (for confirmation of the date and full details, please join our mailing list and/or keep an eye on this blog!).

In the meantime, if you’re local to Chester or visiting the area, please take a look at the ‘Mapping Medieval Chester’ display, put together by Sue Hughes and her team, in the Grosvenor Museum. We hope this will give you a small taster of the project and the historical period we’re exploring.