Pre-modern Towns Conference 2020

Material Culture and the Pre-Modern Town. Birkbeck College, London

Saturday 25th January 2020

Details:

10.00-10.30am             Registration

10.30-11.45am               Michael Potterton (Maynooth University): ‘Pottery in medieval Dublin and its region, c.1150-1300’.

Elizabeth New (Aberystwyth University): ‘Seals and the City’.                              

11.45-1.00pm                Catherine Clarke (Institute of Historical Research, London): ‘Materiality and its limits: urban environment and spatial practices in medieval Swansea’.

1.00-2.00pm                 Lunch 

2.00-3.15pm                 Joe Harley (University of Derby)  ‘Consumer behaviour and material lives of the poor in the town and country: a comparison, c.1670-1834’.

Matthew Jenkins (University of York) and Charlotte Newman (English Heritage), 'London in Pieces: Building Biographies in Georgian London’

3.15-3.30pm                 Break

3.30-4.30pm                 Adrian Green (Durham University) ‘Developments in Architecture in English Towns in Britain and North America in the Seventeenth Century’.

There is a registration fee of £25 (£15 for registered students and the unwaged), to include lunch of sandwiches and fruit. It is essential to book in advance (space is limited), by returning the form below by 16 January 2020

Further details: Dr Ian Archer, Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG, ian.archer@keble.ox.ac.uk

Venue / Online Details:

Main Building, Rooms MAL 122 and MAL 123, Birkbeck College WC1E 7HX