2025
Spring Conference 2025
Adaptations: Medieval Responses to Environmental Change
7–8 June 2025
University of Leicester
2024
Winter Seminar 2024
Post-Pandemic Settlement: New Perspectives on Plague, Perturbation, Persistence and Place in the Medieval Countryside
7 December 2024
University of Leicester
Spring Conference 2024
Bringing Disciplines Together in Medieval Settlement Studies
11 May 2024
University of Nottingham
2023
Winter Seminar 2023
Settlement at the Margins: Living at the Edge
9 December 2023
University of Leicester
Medieval Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Seminar Series
Seminar 4: Eastern Central Europe
22 October 2022
Held online
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2022
Winter Seminar 2022
New Thinking on Medieval Fields
10 December 2022
Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
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Medieval Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Seminar Series
Seminar 3: Southern Europe
22 October 2022
Held online
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Spring Conference 2022
Coastal settlement and landscape: exploring relationships between land and sea
21 May 2022
Held online
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2021
Medieval Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Seminar Series
Seminar 2: Northern and Central Europe
2 October 2021
Held online
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Medieval Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Seminar Series
Seminar 1: UK and Ireland
24 April 2021
Held online
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2019
Spring Conference 2019
New Discoveries in the Cambridge Region: Medieval Settlement in the A14 Corridor and its Wider Context
(Hosted in collaboration with MOLA Headland Infrastructure)
Saturday 30 March 2019
University of Cambridge
2018
Winter Seminar 2018
Settlement in the Danelaw
8 December 2018
Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
Spring Conference 2018
Forest, Woodland and Settlement
20–22 April 2018
Canterbury Christ Church University
2017
9 December
Animals in Medieval Settlements, MSRG Winter Seminar 2017
Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester
29-30 April
Power and Place in the Middle Ages
Newcastle University
2016
29 April – 1 May
Recent archaeological research in rural settlements in Eastern England
University of Lincoln
2015
4-6 September
Churches and Settlement: Rural Churches and the Medieval Landscape
Leicester
2014
13 December
Winter Seminar – Medieval Settlement and Landscape: New Work and New Themes
University of Leicester
2013
25-26 April
A joint Landscape Research Group/MSRG conference – Medieval Perceptions of Landscape
University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
2012
23-24 March
Spring Conference – Wharram: past, present and future
The King’s Manor, University of York
1 December
Winter Seminar & AGM
Faculty of History, University of Oxford
2011
Spring Conference: Medieval Settlement in the North West
Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster
Winter Seminar 25th AGM – Heartland to frontier: the Tees-Forth region in the Middle Ages
Great North Museum, Hancock, Newcastle
2010
Spring Conference: Medieval parks: recent research
Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education
Winter Seminar & AGM: Exploring medieval waterways and bridges
Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
2009
Spring Conference: Monks in the Midlands
School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester
Winter Seminar & AGM: Marshland landscapes, settlement and economy
Centre for Local History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
2008
Spring Conference: The Multiple Estate Revisited: Territories, Resources and Society in Early Medieval Britain
McDonald Institute, Downing Street, University of Cambridge
Winter Seminar & AGM: Fishing, Transhumance and Woodland in Medieval Britain: in memory of Harold Fox
Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
2007
Spring Conference: Anglo-Saxon Landscapes
in conjunction with University of Manchester
Winter Seminar & AGM: Perceptions of medieval landscapes and settlements
Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
2006
Spring Conference: Medieval Settlement Studies in Northumberland
Northumberland National Park, Hexham
Winter Seminar & AGM: Region and Place/Place and Region: Debating Wrathmell and Roberts
McDonald Research Centre, University of Cambridge
2005
Spring Conference: The Medieval Village in ‘Woodland’ and ‘Champion’ Landscapes
Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
Winter Seminar & AGM: Finds in the Landscape: From Saxon to Medieval
Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
2004
Spring Conference 1: Villages and Landscapes in the Middle Ages. Recent Surveys and Explorations Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford
Spring Conference 2: The history and archaeology of medieval Carlow
with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, County Carlow, Ireland
Winter Seminar & AGM: Diet and Health in the Medieval Countryside: The Archaeological Evidence
Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
2003
Spring Conference: Settlement and agriculture in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset
Department of Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter
Winter Seminar & AGM: tribute to John Hurst The contribution of pottery studies to medieval settlement research
Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
2002
Spring Conference: Medieval or Later Rural Settlement in Scotland: 10 Years On
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, University of Edinburgh
Winter Seminar & AGM: celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Group, Medieval Settlement Studies – Past, Present and Future
Birkbeck College, London
Medieval Settlement Research Group 