Hoskins Day Presentations

In answer to a request that the series of lectures be named after him, Professor Hoskins replied as follows: 

Stoke Canon, near Exeter, 1st August 1989. 
Dear Dr Fox, Thank you very much for your letter. I am honoured to hear of the proposal to call the lecture after me. Please forgive the short note, but I have been rather ill lately. Yours sincerely, W.G. Hoskins.

The first annual lecture, sponsored by the Friends, was given on May 19th 1990.

Speaker	Presentation	Date
	‘Landscape History after Hoskins: Country Walks through Colonial Britain’ presented by Professor Corinne Fowler.	2024
	'By 1350….nearly every line had been drawn’ – New Light on Devon’s Landscape History, 70 years after Hoskins’s Devon presented by Professor Sam Turner.	2023
	‘The Local politics of Civil-War Military Welfare’ presented by Professor Andrew Hopper.	2022
	There were no Hoskins lectures in 2021 due to the imposition of restrictions on social gatherings as a result of the Covid epidemic	2021
	There were no Hoskins lectures in 2020 due to the imposition of restrictions on social gatherings as a result of the Covid epidemic	2020
	‘Kingdom, Civitas and County: The Evolution of Territorial Identity in the English Landscape’ presented by Professor Stephen Rippon.	2019
	‘Wharram Percy and its Landscape Contents’ presented by Dr Stuart Wrathmell.	2018
	‘From Tents to Townhouses: The Viking Great Army and the Origins of the Borough of Torksey’ presented by Professor Dawn Hadley.	2017
	‘Trees and Topography: Depictions of individual trees in the 18th and 19th centuries’ presented by Professor Charles Watkins.	2016
	‘The power of pits: New evidence for rural settlements from excavations in eastern England’ presented by Professor Carenza Lewis.	2015
	‘Who made the medieval Landscape’ presented by Professor Chris Dyer.	2014
	‘The Patrician Landscape 1750-185o’ presented by Doctor Richard Gaunt.	2013
	‘Medieval Open Fields and their Origins’ presented by Doctor Susan Oosthuizen.	2012
	‘Custom and Common Rights: the management of common land in England and Wales since the Middle Ages’ presented by Doctor Angus Winchester.	2011
	‘The English Story’ presented by Doctor Michael Wood.	2010
	‘Exploring Anglo-Saxon Farms’ presented by Doctor Rosamund Faith.	2009
	The nineteenth Hoskins lecture presented by Doctor Trevor Rowley.	2008
	‘Woodlands in myth and Legend’ presented by Doctor Della Hooke.	2007
	‘Place-names and Landscapes’ presented by Doctor Margaret Gelling.	2006
	‘Midland Peasants: how farming made the medieval landscape’ presented by Doctor Tom Williamson.	2005
	‘Differentiating the English: ethnicity and provincial association to c.1750’ presented by Professor Charles Phythian-Adams.	2004
	‘Paganism, folklore and historians: a witches’ brew’ presented by Professor Ronald Hutton.	2003
	‘The Perception of the Landscape in Early Modern England’ presented by Professor Sir Keith Thomas.	2002
	‘The church in the early English landscape: old problems new approaches’ presented by Doctor John Blair.	2001
	‘Woodland history in Hoskins’ day and now’ presented by Oliver Rackham.	2000
	‘Commons and the livelihoods associated with them’ presented by Alan Everitt.	1999
	‘Learning to see’ presented by Joan Thirsk.	1998
	‘The remaking of the English landscape: An essay’ presented by Professor John Sheail.	1997
	‘Over the hedge or chance in research’ presented by Maurice Beresford.	1996
	‘The Crown and the people of the provinces under the Tudors and the Stuarts’ presented by Gordon Forster.	1995
	‘W. G. Hoskins and the Great Rebuilding of England’ presented by Doctor Malcolm Airs.	1994
	‘Compassionate Marriage: Some Oral History Evidence’ presented by Doctor Elizabeth Roberts.	1993
	‘Towns and villages in medieval England’ presented by Professor David Palliser.	1992
	‘Family history and local history’ presented by Doctor David Hey.	1991
	‘Medieval Settlement Patterns: Problems and Possibilities’ presented by Christopher Taylor.	1990