Past Conferences and Meetings
One of the chief aims of the MSRG is to hold regular meetings, lectures, seminars and conferences around the country. The peregrinations of the Group over the past decade are detailed below.
Summaries of all the gatherings and themes have been published in the MSRG journal and (former) Annual Report.
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Spring Conference: Medieval Settlement in the North West (Centre for North-West Regional Studies, Lancaster University)
Winter Seminar & 25th AGM: Heartland to frontier: the Tees-Forth region in the Middle Ages (Great North Museum: Hancock, Newscastle)
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2010
Spring Conference: Medieval parks: recent research
(Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education)
Winter Seminar & AGM: Exploring medieval waterways and bridges
(Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester)
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Spring Conference: Monks in the Midlands (School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester)
Winter Seminar & AGM: Marshland landscapes, settlement and economy (Centre for Local History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London) |
2008
Spring Conference: The Multiple Estate Revisited: Territories, Resources and Society in Early Medieval Britain
(McDonald Institute, Downing Street, University of Cambridge)
Winter Seminar & AGM: Fishing, Transhumance and Woodland in Medieval Britain: in memory of Harold Fox
(Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester)
2007
Spring Conference: Anglo-Saxon Landscapes (in conjunction with Manchester University)
Winter Seminar & AGM: Perceptions of medieval landscapes and settlements
(Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester)
2006
Spring Conference: Medieval Settlement Studies in Northumberland
(Northumberland National Park, Hexham)
Winter Seminar & AGM: Region and Place/Place and Region:
Debating Wrathmell and Roberts
(McDonald Research Centre at the University of Cambridge)
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Spring Conference: The Medieval Village in 'Woodland' and 'Champion' Landscapes (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge)
Winter Seminar & AGM: Finds in the Landscape: From Saxon to Medieval (Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester) |
2004
Spring Conference 1: Villages and Landscapes in the Middle Ages. Recent Surveys and Explorations (Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford)
Spring Conference 2: The history and archaeology of medieval Carlow
(with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, County Carlow, Ireland)
Winter Seminar & AGM: Diet and Health in the Medieval Countryside: The Archaeological Evidence
(Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester)
2003
Spring Conference: Settlement and agriculture in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset
(Department of Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter)
Winter Seminar & AGM: tribute to John Hurst The contribution of pottery studies to medieval settlement research
(Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester)
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Spring Conference: Medieval or Later Rural Settlement in Scotland: 10 Years On (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, University of Edinburgh)
Winter Seminar & AGM: celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Group, Medieval Settlement Studies - Past, Present and Future (Birkbeck College, London) |
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