David Wright, M.A., Ph.D., F.S.A., F.S.G.

Speaking Dates

Saturday 10 October 2020 -
​CANCELLED 'TIL FURTHER NOTICE

​The Keep, East Sussex Record Office, Falmer, Brighton.
A history of writing and manuscripts from classical times to the age of print.

Recent Research Project - William Somner (1606-1669)

My life of William Somner (1606-1669) the Canterbury scholar and antiquary whose two greatest works were 'The Antiquities of Canterbury' (1640) and the 'Anglo-Saxon-Latin-English Dictionary' of 1659, is now complete and appears in the two volumes of Archaeologia Cantiana for 2019 and 2020..

Somner was a notary public as well as being the cathedral auditor and registrar, and was instrumental in saving and protecting many of the cathedral records during the Civil War.