Hoskins Day 2025
Saturday 10th May, 2025.
11:00am – 5:00pm.
Attenborough Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester.
Keynote Speaker: MARK GARDINER
Mark Gardiner is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Lincoln. He has worked on analysing the structures of excavated buildings since he uncovered his first more than thirty years ago.
He subsequently studied standing medieval masonry and timber-framed buildings, publishing on the interpretations of their structural history and social implications.
His interests include medieval archaeology, stone buildings and stone masons, carpentry and carpenters, medieval handcrafts, medieval settlement, medieval landscape, houses.
Editor (alongside Stephen Rippon – author) Medieval Landscapes (Landscape History After Hoskins, 2), 2007. The medieval period was at the centre of W G Hoskins concerns: the period when his ‘palimpsest’ of the English landscape was, if not quite wiped clean, very thoroughly overwritten. The essays here demonstrate how researchers have moved beyond issues of describing and ‘reading’ the landscape to address the social and ideological – as well as economic – functions of landscapes, and to seek explanations for regional difference.
