Events archive

Date: 08/12/2018
Description: The 2018 AGM and Winter Seminar of the Medieval Settlement Research Group will take place on Saturday 8 December 2018 at the University of Leicester.This year's Seminar will incorporate two sessions, a morning session with student presentations on landscape and settlement studies in Britain, Ireland and Europe, and an afternoon session on the theme of settlement in the Danelaw. Confirmed speakers for the afternoon session include Prof. Dawn Hadley, Prof. Julian Richards, Prof. David Stocker, Dr Stuart Wrathmell and Dr Rebecca Gregory.

Date: 29/11/2018
Description: Dr Jayne Carroll will be delivering the annual E. C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture organised by the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge, on Thursday, 29 November 2018. Jayne's lecture, 'Speaking fluently: watery place-names and the medieval English landscape', will be based on her work on the Flood and Flow project.

Date: 23/11/2018
Description: The University of Leicester's Medieval Research Centre's 2018 Conference 'Troublesome Elements' is taking place at the George Davies Centre, University of Leicester, on Friday 23 November. The conference focuses on the four elements—earth, water, air, and fire—in the medieval period. Dr Susan Kilby (INS Research Fellow) will be talking about 'Troublesome Earth': Medieval Peasants, Sustainable Farming and Elemental Theory', and Elisabeth Magin (CSVA PhD student) will be giving a paper, 'Taming Fire, Taking Revenge - Medieval Runes and Magic'.

Date: 17/11/2018
Description: The Place-Names Committee of the Kent Archaeological Society and the Centre for Kent History & Heritage are hosting a conference, 'Exploring Kentish Naming Practices', on 17 Nobember 2018. The one-day conference includes papers on place-names, personal names and tavern names, including two papers by the Dr Paul Cullen, the Kent editor of the Survey of English Place-Names. Further information is available at www.canterbury.ac.uk/kent-names.