Subj: CONFERENCE: Life in the Early-Modern Town (November 4, 1995)
Posted by Richard Rodger <rgr@leicester.ac.uk>
LIFE IN THE EARLY-MODERN TOWN: new approaches by historians and
archaeologists to understanding the British urban past.
LEICESTER UNIVERSITY, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4TH 1995
A one-day conference jointly organised by the Centre for Urban History,
Leicester University and the Society for Post-medieval Archaeology. This
symposium aims to bring historians and archaeologists together to examine
common interests in interpreting the urban past from the metropolis to the
small market town.
PROGRAMME
To be held in the Seminar Room, The Library, Leicester University.
11:00 Coffee and registration
11:35 Introduction
11:40-1:00 London's Industrial History: Dyeing and Cloth Finishing
David Mitchell, Centre for Metropolitan History
Dyers, Sugar Manufacturers and Precision Metal Workers: Some Excavated
Evidence From London
Geoff Egan, Museum of London Archaeological Service
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:20 Probate Evidence and the Study of Material Culture in Bristol
Jonathan Barry, University of Exeter
Bristol, Gateway to the Atlantic: An Archaeological Perspective
Reg Jackson, Bristol Archaeologist
3:20-3:30 Coffee
3:30-4:50 Buckinghamshire Small Towns
Michael Reed, University of Loughborough
Usk, A Small Town in its Regional Setting
Paul Courtney, Secretary, Society for Post-medieval Archaeology, Leicester
4:50-5:20 Discussion
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Editor's note:
Having just delivered a paper on collaborative work by urban historians and
archaeologists (at the Urban History/Planning Conference, organized by the
Urban Research Program at the Australian National University), I would be
most interested to recieve a review of this Leicester conference for
H-URBAN.
Alan Mayne
H-Urban Co-Editor
H-Urban@uicvm.uic.edu