{"id":2475,"date":"2025-06-29T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:08:34","slug":"castle-studies-trust-grants-go-beyond-the-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/29\/castle-studies-trust-grants-go-beyond-the-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Castle Studies Trust Grants Go Beyond the Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Your donations make our research grants possible. But the grants go beyond the initial research, into the continuing and lasting impact which carries beyond far beyond the excavation season or the granting year. Research from two Castle Studies Trust grants can be seen at the upcoming Leeds International Medieval Congress in July 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every year, over three thousand medievalists from around the globe meet at the University of Leeds to present research, share new knowledge, make connections with others, and grow and foster the global community of medievalists. This major international conference also provides CST grantees a further platform to inform scholars about their research into castles. In 2025, under the special theme of \u2018Worlds of Education,\u2019 the Castle Studies Trust is proud to highlight papers and projects which have received CST support, financially or otherwise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Initial images of Canterbury keep from the Visualising Canterbury Castle project, copyright Christchurch Canterbury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Leonie Hicks of Canterbury Christ Church University will be presenting initial research from Canterbury Castle in a paper titled \u2018Digital Interludes: Methods of Teaching Castles.\u2019 This work looks at her department’s digital castle work of which the project \u2018Visualising Canterbury Castl<\/a>e<\/a>,\u2019 which was awarded \u00a39631 from CST in 2025 is part of. This dynamic, multi-discipline project intends to create a detailed digital plan of the keep to understand the site, largely now in ruin but scheduled to reopen in correlation with the 1000th<\/sup> anniversary of William the Conqueror\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Excavating Newhouse Castle, copyright Ryan Prescott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dr Ryan Prescott (University of Leeds) will be presenting further research on Newhouse Castle, Lincolnshire, in a paper titled \u2018Reframing Newhouse Castle: Lincolnshire and the \u201cAnarchy.\u201d\u2019. In 2024, this project was awarded \u00a39867 from the Castle Studies Trust<\/a>. Dr Prescott and team are seeking to understand and determine the nature of the castle at Newhouse and the lower gentry\u2019s places within the sphere of the Anglo-Norman Civil War (1138-1154.) As seen with this paper, the impact of this award is continuing beyond the excavation which the CST funded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your support and donations make these projects possible, including the lasting impact we see from them in the academic sphere as well as the wider world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further research and outreach fostered by the Castle Studies Trust will also be seen at Leeds. For example, two papers stem from initial presentations at our 2023 CST anniversary symposium.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our assessors, Dr Erik Matthews with the Hornby Castle Project, Northallerton, will be presenting continuing research on \u2018The Religious Experiences of an Elite Household in Medieval Wensleydale, 1000-1550.\u2019 Dr Matthews initially presented this research on \u2018Hornby Castle, Wensleydale, North Yorkshire: An Elite Holiday Home of the Later Middle Ages\u2019 at our 2023 anniversary symposium. Dr Matthews also acts as one of the CST\u2019s expert assessors for grant applications. You can read more about his work at Hornby at our blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, Dr Lorna-Jane Richardson, University of East Anglia, will be speaking at Leeds about \u2018Modern Myth and \u2018Medieval\u2019 Identity: The Case of Bungay Castle.\u2019 Dr Richardson likewise first presented this research at our 2023 anniversary symposium. You can read more about her work from her blog post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Possible image of Eleanor of Castile at Overton Church, copyright Rachel Swallow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More of our Trustees and Assessors are also presenting work at Leeds: Dr Rachel Swallow of Swallowtail Archaeology will present her ongoing work on Queen Eleanor of Castile and the contexts of her castles with a paper \u2018Leisure, Literature and Legend: Reconstructing Edward I and Queen Eleanor of Castile\u2019s Castles and Boroughs through Innovative Landscape Contexts.\u2019 You can read more about Dr Swallow\u2019s ongoing research on the topic in her blog post with CS<\/a>T<\/a>. Dr Swallow is one of our team of expert assessors for grant applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Katherine Weikert, University of Winchester, will present new research into castles, pedagogy and the ideas-informed society with co-researcher Ruth Luzmore (University of Southampton) in their paper, \u2018Timeless Terrains: Medieval and Modern Mental Landscapes Today.\u2019 Dr Weikert has been a Trustee of the Castle Studies Trust since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From grantees to trustees, the Castle Studies Trust is at the forefront of new, exciting research into castles. Your support makes this all possible, and donations, however small, are put to good use. Thank you for your support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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