The Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society organised a one-day conference, 'Researching the castle in Lancashire and Cheshire, a decade of work was held at the Grosvenor Museum in Chester' on 15 October. The Q&A session at the end was recorded.

The speakers were Dr Rachel Swallow on Celebrating a decade of broadening interdisciplinary and cross-period reflections on Aldford Castle and its landscape in Cheshire, Dr Richard Nevell on ‘When to slight a castle? Comparing the Castles of the earls of Chester and Leicester, Norman Redhead on Exploring Greater Manchester’s Lost Castles, Kirsty Lloyd & Sarah Cattell on The Bodies in the Bailey: Halton Castle Excavations, 2015 to 2017 and Dr Michael Nevell on Looking for the Great Tower: Digging at Hoghton Tower, Lancashire.