Past Events (draft for approval)


2021

Medieval Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology in the UK and Ireland”

Event: Archaeology Seminar Series
Location: Online
Date: Saturday 24th April 2021
Please click here to view the papers via the official MSRG YouTube channel


2019

New Discoveries in the Cambridge Region: Medieval Settlement in the A14 Corridor and its Wider Context

Event: Spring conference (hosted in collaboration with MOLA Headland Infrastructure)
Location: University of Cambridge
Date: Saturday 30th March 2019


2018

Settlement in the Danelaw

Event: Winter seminar
Location: Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
Date: Saturday 8th December 2018

Forest, Woodland and Settlement

Event: Spring conference
Location: Canterbury Christ Church University
Date: Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd April
The archived programme can be accessed online here


2017

“Animals in Medieval Settlements”

Event: Winter seminar
Location: Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
Date: Saturday 9th December 2017
The archived promotional flyer can be accessed online here

“Power and Place in the Middle Ages”

Event: Spring conference
Location: Newcastle University
Date: Saturday 29th to Sunday 30th April 2017
The original MSRG news post with full details can be accessed online here


2016

“Recent Archaeological Research in Rural Settlements in Eastern England”

Event: Spring conference
Location: University of Lincoln
Date: Friday 29th April to Sunday 1st May 2016
The original news post with full details can be accessed online here


2015

“Churches and Settlement: Rural Churches and the Medieval Landscape”

Event: Spring conference
Location: University of Leicester
Date: Friday 4th to Sunday 6th September 2015
Details and photographs from the event can be accessed online here


2014

“Medieval Settlement and Landscape: New Work and New Themes”

Event: Winter seminar
Location: University of Leicester
Date: Saturday 13th December 2014
The archived programme can be accessed online here


2013

“Medieval Perceptions of Landscape”

Event: Joint conference with the Landscape Research Group
Location: University of Exeter, Cornwall campus
Date: Thursday 25th to Friday 26th April 2013
The original news article promoting the conference can be accessed online here


2012

“Wharram: Past, Present and Future”

Event: Spring conference
Location: The King’s Manor, University of York
Date: Friday 23rd to Saturday 24th March 2012
The original MSRG news article can be accessed online here

Event: Winter Seminar & AGM
Location: Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Date: Saturday 1st December 2012


2011

Medieval Settlement in the North West

Event: Spring conference
Location: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster
Date: 2011

Heartland to Frontier: The Tees-Forth Region in the Middle Ages

Event: Winter Seminar & AGM
Location: Great North Museum, Hancock, Newcastle
Date: 2011


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