The Early Modern Town: conference

Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Mon, 9 Oct 1995 17:00:15 +0100

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/ LIFE IN THE EARLY MODERN TOWN /
/ new approaches by historians and /
/ archaeologists to understanding /
/ the British urban past. /
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LEICESTER UNIVERSITY (UK), 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 -
5:30pm.

'London's Industrial History: Dyeing and Cloth Finishing':
David Mitchell, Centre for Metropolitan History.

'Dyers, Suger Manufacturers and Precision Metal Workers: Some Excavated
Evidence from London':
Geoff Egan, Museum of London Archaeological Service

'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

'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.

Fee: members of SPMA (Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology) and PMTG (Pre-
Modern Towns Group), and Centre for Urban History members and students - #5.00;
others #7.50. Buffet Lunch - #4.75

To register please contact Paul Courtney, 20 Lytton Road, Clarendon Park,
Leicester (tel. 0116-2707999) by 1st November.

Message posted by
Ralph Weedon,
University of Leicester,
wlr@le.ac.uk

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