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This special symposium has two objectives: to celebrate the first quarter century of Harlaxton symposia and, secondly, to explore how people and events were commemorated or memorialised in medieval England. Invited speakers (including Professor Joel Rosenthal and Professor Derek Pearsall) will reflect on how research and publication in their own field has developed over the last twenty-five years. There will also be papers which consider the different forms that medieval commemoration might take, and the ways in which memory was formalised: this might be in glass windows, tomb inscriptions, naming patterns, books of hours, poems, chantry or college foundations, chronicles, pageants and processions. We hope to be able to organise a trip to see the chapel at Haddon Hall with its medieval glass, wall paintings and alabaster altar retable.