PMRG has now launched its Bluesky Social account: @pmrgwa.bsky.social. Please follow us if you are interested!
Category: General
New committee
At our AGM on 25 February, a new committee was elected and will hold its first meeting on 25 March – the start of the English medieval year! – to start putting together our exciting programme for 2026.
President: Glen McKnight; Vice-President: Louise Pitcher; Secretary: Jo Merrey; Treasurer: Bruce McClintock; members: Ariarne Chinnery, Jennifer Hole, Claire McIlroy.
Annual General Meeting – 25 February
Middle English Reading Group
A new text for the new year! Readers are having fun continuing with Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale, and looking forward to reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the new year. If you are interested, more information on the reading group is here.
Cancellation of talk 20 November
Apologies, but due to unforeseen circumstances, we have had to cancel the planned talk by Dr Benjamin Szumskyj on Thursday 20 November.
We hope that Dr Szumskyj will be able to give his talk to us next year.
Thursday 11 December – party
An end-of-year gathering for PMRG members will be held at the home of Gail and Helen Thomas.
20 November – talk
Middle English reading group – new text
PMRG’s Middle English reading group will be starting on a new text – Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Introduction, Prologue & Tale – from Monday 29 September.
If you’d like to learn more about the reading group, see here. If you’d like to join our Zoom sessions, please email pmrg.committee@gmail for contact details.
2025 Conference – register now!
Registrations are now open for our 2025 Conference, ‘Tyrants and Dictators: Unjust Rulers in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds‘, to be held on Saturday 4 October on the campus of The University of Western Australia and online.
Simply go to: https://www.trybooking.com/DFDUE
or go via the QR code below:
A draft schedule is available here.
A poster is available here.