The Centre for English Local History

7  October

Steve Hindle (University of Warwick)

Below stairs at Arbury Hall (Warwicks.): Sir Richard Newdigate and his household staff, c. 1670-1710

21 October

Peter Jones (Oxford Brookes)

The ‘moral economy’ of the English poor in the nineteenth century

4 November

Matthew Bristow (Victoria County History)

Non-traditional housing types in a New Town context: the planning and physical development of Corby, Northamptonshire, after 1930

18 November

Jeremy Burchadt (University of Reading)

Counterurbanisation, preservation and community in Berkshire, 1900-1950

2 December

David Grififths (Kellogg College, Oxford)

Sand , sea and not much sun: medieval climate change and its effects on coastal landscapes and settlement

20 January

David Appleby (University of Nottingham)

The Restoration county community: a post-conflict culture

3 February

Diana Newton (University of Teesside)

The impact of reformation on the cult of St Cuthbert in Durham

17 February

Michael Worboys (University of Manchester)

Fancy dogs and the dog fancy: manufacturing pedigree breeds in late Victorian Britain

3 March

Francesca Carnevali (University of Birmingham)

Microhistory and metanarratives: the example of Birmingham's and Providence's jewellery makers, 1870-1914

17 March

Bob Johnston (University of Sheffield) and Anna Badcock (York Archaeological Trust)

Places for protest: the archaeology of  an environmental protest camp in Derbyshire

8  October

Richard Maguire (University of East Anglia)
Norfolk, the Africans, and Atlantic slavery

22 October

Charles Watkins (University of Nottingham)
The ancient trees and woods of Sherwood

5 November

Alexandra Walsham (University of Exeter)
Wyclif's Well: Lollardy, landscape and memory in post-Reformation Lutterworth

19 November

Chris Lewis (formerly Victoria County History)
Naming Paradise: house names of the 1920s and 1930s in seaside Sussex

3 December

Stephen Mileson (University of Oxford and the Victoria County History)
Parks and communities in medieval England

21 January

Paul Barnwell (Kellogg College, Oxford)
Transformations in the local church, 950-1150

4 February

Fiona Stirling (University of Sheffield)
Revealing the complex history of two Sheffield cemeteries

18 February

Kathryn Gleadle (Mansfield College, Oxford)
Identity, land and lineage: Mary Ann Gilbert of Eastbourne and the politics of the poor law

18 March

Jan Broadway (Queen Mary, University of London)
Aubrey and his contemporaries: inventing archaeological fieldwork

9  October

Lloyd Bowen (University of Cardiff)
Seditious words and popular royalism in mid-seventeenth century England

23 October

Nicola Verdon (University of Sussex)
The contested nature of rural women's work in inter-war England and Wales

6 November

Steve Rigby (University of Manchester)
Urban population in late medieval England

20 November

Anne Winter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Policies on migration and settlement, 1700-1900: Comparing England and Wales with the Continent

4 December

Samantha Shave (University of Southampton)
(Re)constructing lives 'on the parish': individuals' experiences of poor relief in the early nineteenth-century English south west

15 January

Mark Gardiner (Queen's University of Belfast)
Quantifying the extent of assarted land in twelfth- century England

29 January

Alannah Tomkins (University of Keele)
'We were all happy there'? The experiences of workhouse life, c.1770-1834

19 February

Jason Peacey (University College London)
Provincial news junkies: the circulation and consumption of civil war print culture

26 February

Huw Pryce (University of Bangor)
Race, Geography and the Origins of the Welsh: New Perspectives on a Nation's Past, 1880-1930

12 March

Stephen Joyce (University of Nottingham)
The black economy in the Soar Valley, 1945-1971: an oral history

4  October

Andy Wood (University of East Anglia)
Remembering and  forgetting Kett’s rebellion of 1549

18 October

Richard Oliver (University of Exeter)
British town maps before 1900: a local view of the scenery or a national one?

1 November

Elizabeth Hurren (Oxford Brookes)
John Charles Cox, c. 1848-1919: a radical historian’s contribution to local and rural history

15 November

Christian Liddy (University of Durham)
The land of the prince bishops: history, myth and identity  in the palatinate of Durham in the late middle ages

29 November

Martin Marix Evans (Blakesley, Northants)
The Battle of Naseby: the local history of a national event

17 January

Paul Cullen (University of Nottingham)
Pebbles, beans and muck: the stuff of Nottinghamshire place-names

31 January

Briony McDonagh (University of Hertfordshire)
Subverting the ground: private property and public protest in the sixteenth-century Yorkshire Wolds

14 February

Adrian Randall (University of Birmingham)
Disorderly conduct: protesting repertoires in eighteenth-century Gloucestershire

28 February

Julian Pooley (Surrey History Centre)
Discovering an archive of  local history : the papers of  John Nichols, historian of Leicestershire

13 March

Susanna Wade-Martins (University of East Anglia)
The small holding movement in the twentieth century – a social and farming experiment

5  October

David Hey (University of Sheffield)
The landscape history of the grouse moors of the Peak District

19 October

Craig Taylor (The Guardian)
Oral history fieldwork, especially in an English village : approaches and tips

2 November

Angela McShane-Jones (Oxford Brookes University)
Political and material cultures of drinking in the West Country

16 November

James Patterson (Media Archive for Central England)
New opportunities for the Local Historian: The regional film archive at Leicester

30 November

Naomi Sykes (University of Nottingham )
Hunting and poaching in the medieval landscape: the evidence from animal bones

18 January

Nick Higham (University of Manchester)
Separating out the kingdoms of pre-Viking England: the search for Northumbria’s southern frontier

1 February

Ian Waites (University of Lincoln)
‘Stretched far away in every direction’:artistic depictions of open fields and commons, c.1730-1850

15 February

Judith Spicksley (University of Cambridge)
The ‘curious old diary of an elderly lady’: Joyce Jeffreys, celibacy and moneylending in seventeenth-century Hereford

1 March

Angie Negrine (University of Leicester)
Practitioners and paupers : Leicester’s Poor Law medical services, 1867-1930

15 March

Adam Longcroft (University of East Anglia)
The New Buckenham Project, Norfolk : new light on urban housing

6 October

Dr Jack Langton (St John’s College, Oxford)
The clearing of the woods or the running of the deer? Forests and chases in early modern England and Wales

20 October

Dr Ben Dodds (Department of History, University of Durham)
Medieval bean counting: tithe and agrarian production

3 November

Professor Kevin Schurer (United Kingdom Digital Archive, University of Essex)
What can surnames tell us about historic regions?

17 November

Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor (CAMPOP, University of Cambridge)
The economic and social structure of English regions, 1650-1850.

1 December

Dr Stephen Hipkin (Department of History, Canterbury Christ Church University)
The politics of dearth in the late Elizabethan period: the metropolitan grain trade of Kent.

19 January

Dr John Broad (Department of History, London Metropolitan University)
Farmers, cottagers and their houses in the seventeenth century.

2 February

Matthew Badcock (Department of Sociology, University of Central England)
The regional geography of nineteenth-century elections.

16 February

Pam Fisher (Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester)
'The people’s choice': the election of county and borough coroners, c.1750-1850

2 March

Dr Jayne Carroll (Department of English, University of Leicester)
The value of names: the local history on Anglo-Saxon coins

16 March

Dr Sam Turner (School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle)
‘Landscape character and regionality in Devon’s ancient countryside’

6 October

Prof. Pat Hudson (University of Cardiff)
Everyday life in industrialising West Yorkshire

21 October

Dr Richard Cust (University of Birmingham)
Lineage and gentry honour in Tudor and early Stuart England

4 November

Prof. Jim Sharpe (University of York)
"Dust and curses": witches in the early modern Isle of Man

18 November

Dr Kate Tiller (University of Oxford)
Religion and community: Dorchester-on-Thames, 1800-1920

2 December

Dr Jeremy Boulton (University of Newcastle)
Landlords and tenants in early modern London or urban history's "strangely neglected topic"

20 January

Dr John Moreland (University of Sheffield)
The Bradbourne Survey: Landscape in Derbyshire from Prehistory until the Present

3 February

Mr Cyril Pearce (University of Leeds)
Mapping 1914-18 War Resisters - Revising the Image using Local Studies

17 February

Mr Matt Tompkins (University of Leicester)
Landscape and Society in Two Buckinghamshire Villages

3 March

Mrs Avril Morris (University of Leicester)
Wulfhere's Charter Revisited: Seventh-Century Boundaries of Peterborough Abbey

17 March

Dr Robert Peberdy (VCH for Oxfordshire)
W.G. Hoskins: the Origins of a Creative Historian

2  October

Prof. Sir Tony (E. A.) Wrigley (University of Cambridge)
The changing occupational structure of England 1750-1850

16 October

Dr Michael Costen (Centre for the Historic Environment, University of Bristol)
Toward a chronology for the place-names of South-West England

30 October

Dr Emma Griffin (University of Cambridge)
Popular sports and pastimes, 18th/19th centuries: The Village Green

13 November

Prof. Mike Braddick (University of Sheffield)
English society during the British civil wars: towards a new history

27 November

Dr Spencer Dimmock (University of Swansea)
A re-assessment of towns in late medieval southern Wales

11 December

Dr Mark Freeman (University of Glasgow)
Social Investigation and Rural England 1870-1914

29 January

Dr Henry French (University of Exeter)
Urban open fields and enclosure 1550-1800

12 February

Dr Beat Kümin (University of Warwick)
Drink and debauchery? An economic profile of the early modern public house

26 February

Dr Carenza Lewis (University of Cambridge)
[tba] Time Team's 'Big Dig' and other approaches to the history of settlement

11 March

Dr Paul Glennie (School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol)
Historical geography of clock times

25 March

Dr Kathy Burrell (DeMonfort University, Leicester)
Mediterranean Migrations: Italians and Greek-Cypriots in Post-War Leicester

10  October

Dr Thomas Sokoll (FernUniversität, Hagen)
Narratives of poverty: Essex pauper letters, 1800-1834, in comparative perspective

24 October

Dr Julie Rugg (University of York, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Cemetery Research Group)
Defining the place of death: what makes a cemetery a cemetery?

7 November

Professor Anthony Sutcliffe (University of Nottingham)
Film and Locality in England, 1926-1990

21 November

Paul Bryant-Quinn (University of Wales, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies)
Locality and belief: lessons from fifteenth-century religious writing

5 December

Dr David Roffe (University of Sheffield)
Domesday Now! Uses of the Domesday Book data

30 January

Dr Margot Finn (University of Warwick)
Courts and small credit

13 February

Dr Andrew Hann (Universities of Coventry and Leicester)
The production of retail space: some case studies from eighteenth- century provincial England

27 February

Prof. Mick Aston (University of Bristol, Centre for the Study of the Historic Environment)
Early Monasteries in the Landscape

13 March

Martin Ayres (University of Leicester)
Housing and rural society, 1834-1914

20 March

Dr Peter Musgrave (University of Leicester)
Valpolicella in its Region

27 March

Prof. Steve McCluskey (University of West Virginia)
Did medieval villagers orientate their churches?

24 April

The Rev Dr Thomas McCoog, S.J. (Jesuit Historical Institute, Rome)
Experiences of 'mission' among Roman Catholic priests in seventeenth-century England

11  October

Prof. John Koch (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales):
Social identity in early medieval Britain

25 October

Mrs Nancy Cox (Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities, University of Wolverhampton):
Shopping: the seventeenth-century experience

8 November

Dr David Lambert (English Heritage):
Guinea Gardens: landscape and leisure in nineteenth-century cities

22 November

Prof. James Stokes (Records of Early English Drama, University of Wisconsin):
Performance and posturing: records of drama in early Lincolnshire, Rutland and Leicestershire

6 December

Mr John Knight (Centre for the Study of the Historic Environment, University of Bristol):
Woodland archaeology: lessons from Wansdyke parishes

24 January

Dr David Marcombe (University of Nottingham):
The power of place: a Lincolnshire sacred site and its continuity

7 February

Dr Catherine Richardson (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham):
Changing clothes and changing status: the bequest of clothing in sixteenth-century Kent

21 February

Mr Rob Lee (Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester):
Rural society and the Anglican clergy in Norfolk, 1815-1914

7 March

Dr Tom Williamson (Centre for East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia):
"Woodland" and "champion" revisited: explaining regional variations in the medieval landscape

21 March

Dr Peter Musgrave (University of Leicester):
Valpolicella and its region

19  October

Paul Cullen (Sussex):
Place-names of Kent

9 November

Rob Lidyard (Bangor):
Castle Rising in Norfolk: a landscape of lordship

23 November

Margaret Yates (Birmingham):
'Medieval or modern?' The experience of a Berkshire community, 1400-1600

30 November

Penny Upton (ELH):
A fishy tale: the depopulation of Bishops Itchington, Warwickshire, in the 16th century

25 January

Will Coster (DMU):
Gossips and godmothers: women's networks of spiritual kinship in early modern England

1 February

Susan Wade-Martins (UEA):
Beauty, utility and profit: model farms and agricultural improvement in the 18th and 19th centuries

22 February

Sarah Tarlow (Leicester):
Metaphors of death: commemorative practice in Orkney and beyond

22 March

David Matless (Nottingham):
Digging a strange pool: Marietta Pallis and the landscape history of the Nortfolk Broads

14  October

Dr Steven Bassett (Department of History, University of Birmingham):
How the west was won: the Anglo-Saxon takeover of the west midlands

4 November

Dr Roey Sweet (Economic and Social History, University of Leicester):
Reform and Renewal in Urban Government before 1835

18 November

Dr Dennis Mills (Open University):
The Sibthorps of Canwick Hall, Lincoln, and their estates in four counties, c. 1716-1940

9 December

Dr Brian Short (School of Cultural and Community Studies, University of Sussex):
A Domesday of English farming: the National Farm Survey 1941-43

3 February

Dr Jo Story (Department of History, University of Leicester):
Charlemagne and the Anglo-Saxons

24 February

Ms Pat Orme (Department of English Local History, University of Leicester):
Piety, penitence and power: a glance at Warwickshire church monuments from 1450 to 1656

2 March

Dr Michael Zell (School of Humanities, University of Greenwich):
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9 March

Professor Richard Marks (Research Department, Victoria and Albert Museum):
Patronage, piety and power in the medieval church: reading the imagery of Stanford on Avon, Northamptonshire

16 March

Mr Alan Fox (Department of English Local History, University of Leicester):
A boundary between cultural provinces? The border area between Leicestershire and Kesteven in the eighteenth century

23 March

Dr Geoff Brandwood:
'A Church as it should be' - the rise and triumph of ecclesiology in Early Victorian Leicestershire

22  October

Dr Rob Colls (Department of Adult Education, University of Leicester):
The Englishness of Hoskins

5 November

Mrs Sylvia Pinches (Department of English Local History, University of Leicester):
Doles and donations: the changing structure of charity in Warwickshire, 1760-1918

12 November

Mrs Anne Reeves (Landscape Historian, Bilsington, Romney Marsh, Kent):
Marshland landscapes: fieldwork and study from the Romney Marsh region of Kent

3 December

Dr Tom Greeves (Cultural Environmentalist):
Tinners and their place: landscapes and records of the Devon Stannaries

10 December

Dr Alasdair Crockett (Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford):
Geography of religious pluralism in the nineteenth century

4 February

Mr Philip Masters (Department of English Local History, University of Leicester):
The Saxon and early Norman church in West Sussex

11 February

Mr Christopher Starr (Department of English Local History, University of Leicester):
The Essex gentry 1381-1450: county community or county of communities?

18 February

Dr Marie Rowlands (School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Wolverhampton):
A new people: the social and geographical mobility of English Catholics in the eighteenth century

11 March

Dr Caroline Barron (Royal Holloway College, University of London):
Grass-roots democracy? Wards in medieval London

25 March

Professor Bernard Capp (Department of History, University of Warwick):
The English Montaillou? The social and cultural world of Sileby, Leicestershire, in the 1630s

February 6,1997

Prof. Peter King (Nene College):
The rise of juvenile delinquency in England 1780-1840. Changing patterns of perception and persecution

February 20,1997

Dr Malcolm Jones (University of Sheffield):
The Undiscovered Country: popular art in late Medieval and early Modern England

March 6,1997

Dr Dawn Hadley (University of Sheffield):
The 'multiple estate' phenomenon revisited

April 24,1997

Dr Joan Lane (University of Warwick):
English Apprentices and their Masters in the 18th Century

May 1,1997

Dr Frank Kitchen (Steyning Grammar School, West Sussex):
Cosmo-choro-poly-grapher: the life and work of John Norden

October 6,1997

Mrs Teresa Hall (University of Leicester):
Aspects of the Minster church in Dorset

November 6,1997

Miss Miriam Gill (University of London, Courtauld Institute of Art):
Articulating sacred space: the evidence from late medieval wall painting

November 27,1997

Dr Nat Alcock (University of Warwick, Department of Chemistry):
Innovation and convervatism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Warwickshire houses

December 4,1997

Dr Chris Brooks (University of Exeter, School of English and American Studies):
The Prince and the Parker: Tudor Propaganda and the Evans Chantry Chapel in Coldridge, Devon

December 18, 1997

Dr David Eastwood (University of Wales, Swansea, Department of History):
The changing contours of English local government: themes and variations

January 29, 1998

Professor Seny Hernandez (Universidad Central de Venezuela):
Local interests in modern English urban societies

February 5, 1998

Dr Richard Hoyle (Department of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Central Lancashire):
Popular Politics in the early sixteenth century: some leaps in the dark

February 19, 1998

Dr Philip Riden (Victoria History of Northamptonshire, Nene College of Higher Education):
The End of a Great Estate: the Honour of Grafton in the Twentieth Century

March 12,1998

Dr Audrey Meaney (Cambridge):
Some aspects of Anglo-Saxon paganism

March 19, 1998

Dr Todd Gray (Department of History, University of Exeter):
The West Country and England's network of fisheries, 1500-1650