Friday 14 to Sunday 16 October at the Christian Heritage Centre, Stonyhurst 

The weekend had as its focus Hopkins, science and poetry.

The programme included the Hopkins Lecture on ‘Gerard Manley Hopkins and his letters to Nature’ by Dr Jill Robson and:

• Dr Anna Nickerson (Cambridge University) gave a talk on her research in progress for her forthcoming book, Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Epistemology: Poetry and the Manifoldness of Knowledge (Bloomsbury);
• A visit to Whalley Abbey;
• A presentation by Elaine Marshall on Ribblesdale.

Sunday included a Eucharist at which recently deceased members of the Society, Lance Pierson and Chris Proudfoot, were remembered.