Past Events

2022

Winter Seminar 2022
‘New Thinking on Medieval Fields’
10 December 2022
Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge

Medieval Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Seminar Series
[Seminar 3]
Medieval settlement and infrastructure archaeology 1: UK and Ireland
Saturday 22 October 2022
Held online

Spring Conference 2022
‘Coastal settlement and landscape: exploring relationships between land and sea’
21 May 2022
Held online


2021

Medieval Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Seminar Series
[Seminar 2]
Medieval settlement and infrastructure archaeology 2: Northern and Central Europe
Saturday 2 October 2021
Held online

Medieval Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Seminar Series
[Seminar 1]
Medieval settlement and infrastructure archaeology 1: UK and Ireland
Saturday 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, Canterbury


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