Subscribers to this list may be interested in 'Farmers, Consumers, and Innovators: the World of Joan Thirsk', a one-day conference organised by the Centre for English Local History. The event will be held at the University of Leicester on Saturday 20 September 2014. The conference is intended not to look back, but rather to identify Joan Thirsk’s relevance for historians now, and to display new work which has been influenced and inspired by her.
Confirmed speakers include:
Tom Williamson, 'Revisiting ‘The Common Fields’: settlement patterns and field systems in England, c. 800-1250'
James Bowen, 'Early modern enclosure and agrarian communities in pastoral Shropshire'
Nicola Whyte, 'The common fields and social relations in early modern Norfolk'
Craig Muldrew, 'Were spinners an industrial workforce in the early modern countryside?'
Jon Stobart, 'The village shop, 1660-1760: innovation and tradition'
Susan North, 'Galloon, fringe, ribbon, incle and points: purchasing fashionable dress and accessories in rural England 1550-1750'
Mark Dawson, 'Oatcakes: farming and diet in the north midlands'
Richard Hoyle, 'Peter Walkden and the world of goods: an early eighteenth-century Lancashire consumer'
Cost of day, including lunch £28.
For more details about how to apply, please contact Lucy Byrne ([log in to unmask]) or telephone 0116 252 2762.
Richard Jones
Centre for English Local History
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