News and Notices
News and Notices from the VAG and other groups or organisations.
Research Research in Vernacular Architecture: Rural Building Traditions of the 'poorer sort', 1600-1900
A one-day conference at the University of Cambridge on 25 February 2012. Fee £43, closing date 15 February. The programme includes: Mud hovels and clod halls: the homes of the rural poor in Wales (Dr Eurwyn Wiliam, RCHMAW); 'Wretched habitations' – the Manx cottage in the 19th century (Dr Catriona Mackie, University of Liverpool); A decade of research into vernacular architecture in East Anglia: community projects, volunteer-led research and the work of the Norfolk Historic Buildings Group (Dr Adam Longcroft, University of East Anglia); Living upstairs: an exploration of the bastle tradition in Alston Moor, Cumbria (Dr Lucy Jessop, English Heritage); Recent research in the Oxfordshire region (David Clark, President, VAG); Social Housing in the English village before and after the New Poor Law: 1660-1834 and 1890-1930 (Dr John Broad, University of Cambridge).
Enquiries to Dr Susan Oosthuizen, email smo23@cam.ac.uk or by post to HERC, c/o McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER. Telephone (office hours only) 07583 151685.
Full details are available on the Historic Environment Research Conferences booking form.
January 2012
