Medieval Settlement Research Group Spring Conference 2025.
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th June, 2025.
All day.
Attenborough Lecture Theatre 1, University of Leicester.
For fees see below.
Adaptations: Medieval Responses to Environmental Change.
Saturday 7th June 2025
- 09:30 Registration
- 09:50 Introduction
- 10:00 Tudur Davies, Cardiff University – Under pressure: the people on the edge of the Peaks
- 10:30 Paul Shaw, University of Leicester – Farming adaptations made by Scandinavian migrants to the English East Midlands between the ninth and eleventh century
- 11:15 Refreshments
- 11:30 Susan Kilby, University of Nottingham- Living with change: the dynamic later medieval landscape of Alrewas in Staffordshire
- 12:00 Louise Kennedy, University of East Anglia – Easton Bavents c.1450-c.1524: a microstudy of the rise and fortune of a maritime community experiencing dynamic coastal change
- 12.30 Thomas Lucking, University of East Anglia – From cattle and spelt to sheep, barley and rabbits: settlement and land use change in the East Anglian Breckland from the end of Roman Britain to the post-medieval
- 13:15 Lunch
- 14:00 Sam Turner, Newcastle University – Were agricultural terraces an adaptation to environmental change in the medieval Mediterranean?
- 14:30 Carenza Lewis, University of Lincoln – “Climate control malfunction: please adjust your settlements” – what can ceramic data tell us about the impact of climate change during the long medieval millennium?
- 15:15 Refreshments
- 15:30 Michael Gilbert, University of Leicester – Responding to a changing world: the siltlands of the Isle of Ely in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
- 16:00 David Oates, Histon & Impington Archaeology Group – Clinging to the Upper Fen Edge: the villages of Histon and Impington, Cambridgeshire
- 16:45 Summary
- 17:00 Close
Sunday 8th June 2025
- Field-trip to East Leicestershire, the Wreake Valley and Charnwood Forest
Conference fee: members Saturday fee £25, Sunday field-trip £6. Non-members: Saturday fee £35, Sunday field-trip £15
For all enquiries, including directions to the venue, please contact Dr Susan Kilby at the above address or by email to sk565@leicester.ac.uk. For those needing accommodation there are a number of hotels in the centre of Leicester.
