Events
September 7 & 8, 2012
Inventing and Reinventing the Modern City An international conference at Teesside University 7 and 8 September 2012 Call for papers
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December 7, 2011
An invitation to celebrate the launch of the most recent volumes in the Boydell and Brewer Regions and Regionalism series of books
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July 5-7, 2013
NEEHI Conference, Flodden and its Significance
The North East of England Historical Institute (NEEHI) is to hold a conference on ‘Flodden and Its Significance’ on 5-7 July 2013, two months before the quincentenary of the Batttle of Flodden. The conference will be residential and will be based at the University of Northumbria. There will be series of lectures on the background to James IV’s invasion of England, the English response, the battle itself and the consequences for Scotland and England. The conference fee will be announced in the near future. Speakers will include:Steve Gunn (Merton College, Oxford), Steve Boardman (Edinburgh University), Tony Goodman (Edinburgh University), David Starkey (a major authority on Tudor England), David Grummitt (Kent University), Tony Pollard (Glasgow University), George Goodwin (author of forthcoming book on Flodden), Jenny Wormald (Edinburgh University), and Steve Ellis (Galway University). On the Saturday (6th July) conference members will be taken by bus to Lady Waterford Hall at Ford and, after lectures at the hall, there will be a visit to the battlefield.
University of Northumbria Campus
Friday 5th July
12.30 onwards:. Registration and light lunch
1.45. Welcome
2.0 England in 1513. Steve Gunn (Merton College, Oxford University) ‘England in 1513’
3.00. Steve Boardman (Edinburgh University), ’Scotland in 1513’
Tea
4.30 Tony Goodman (Edinburgh Uiversirty ‘The Borders’)
5.45 David Starkey. Title to be announced
7.0 Bar opens
7.30 Dinner
Saturday 6th July
9.0 Transfer to Lady Waterford Hall, Ford
10.30 David Grummitt (Kent University‘The armies’
Coffee
11.45 Tony Pollard (Glasgow University), ‘The Battle’
1.15 Lunch
2.15 Field visit to battlefield at Branxton
Return to Newcastle
6.0 Bar opens
7.30 Dinner
After dinner. George Goodwin (author of a forthcoming study of Flodden) Illustrated lecture by George Goodwin.
Sunday 7th July
9.0. Jenny Wormald (Edinburgh University) ‘The Aftermath. The impact on Scotland’
10.30 Steve Ellis (Galway University) ‘The impact on the north of England’
11.30 Concluding remarks
