DVS Events

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, this year’s Annual General Meeting will be held virtually via email. The date of the AGM remains Saturday 20 March 2021 and the deadline for return of votes, etc. remains 17:00 (GMT). All members will be sent an email with the agenda and any additional papers necessary. P....

BAND OF BROTHERS: Edward de Vere and his Literary Circle in the 1580’s  The DVS Autumn Conference Webinar 2020 focuses on the Earl of Oxford’s writing and theatrical activities in the 1580’s, with particular reference to his circle of fellow writers. The 3-hour presentation with invited speakers will be interwov....

The DVS has regrettably had to postpone the Summer Weekend Meeting in Newcastle; we hope to reschedule the event during 2021.....

The DVS has regrettably postponed the staged reading of Nothing Truer Than Truth at the Water Rats on Sunday 06 June 2020; we hope to reschedule the event during 2021. Nothing Truer Than Truth, Being the life and times of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, sometime known as William Shake-speare This recently publishe....

The Spring Meeting at Lincoln’s Inn in London on Saturday 04 April 2020 has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak but the DVS is currently conducting the AGM by email or post to all members, who have been asked to send their responses and/or comments by 04 April 2020. Those with reservations for the [&he....

Programme 10.00 Registration and coffee 10.30 Alexander Waugh: Welcome 10.45 Jan Scheffer:  A marriage joust in Trebizond; Commedia Erudita and sinister politics in 1575, 11.30 Rosemary O’Loughlin: Who wrote Shakespeare? Presentation of her winning video for the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship competition 12.00 Visit ....