On October 16 1956 the Society inaugurated a series of public talks entitled Examples of Research Work. The purpose is to explain how specific pieces of historical research have been carried out. Each speaker describes the methods he used, the sources to which he went and the problems he had to solve. The first talk was given by Brigadier T.B. Trappes-Lomax C.B.E., who described the research which he had recently done on the visitation of the Midlands and the North by Bishop Leyburn in 1687.