The Origins and Growth of Settlements in Dorset

12 February 2005

This Saturday Day School at the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, is intended to provide an introduction to some of the themes in the study of the origins and growth of settlement in Dorset. The lectures will include recent research on a range of issues including that modern towns can tell us about the historic past and when and why some towns expanded during the medieval period.

Programme

9.45am--10.10am: Registration and coffee
10.10am--10.15am: Introduction
10.15am--11.00am: [to be announced]
11.05am--12.20pm: Dr Bruce Eagles, The Anglo-Saxon conquest of Dorset
12.20pm--1.30pm: Lunch [not provided]
1.30pm--2.15pm: Dr David Reeve, The Origins and Development of Saxon Wimborne Minster
2.15pm--3.00pm: Dr Karin Mew, Through a glass darkly: Domesday insights into the eleventh-century Purbeck landscape
3.00pm--3.30pm: Tea
3.30pm--4.15pm: Katherine Barker, Thirteenth century town plantation in Dorset: Bridport and Sherborne-Newland, some constrasts and some connections
4.20pm--4.45pm: Questions to speakers, summary and close

Advance booking essential, tickets £15.00 from the Museum.