Bucks Local History Network 2013 Schedule and Booking Form

Post date: 01-Aug-2013 16:00:35

2013 Annual Conference & Fair

Saturday 28 September 2013

• Dr Challoner's Girls High School, Little Chalfont

• Lectures by local and national experts

• Displays by local societies

POWER, MONEY AND THE LANDSCAPE IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Six half-hour lectures.

Doors open 9am, first lecture 10am.

• • Roman villas and their landscape in Buckinghamshire / Professor Keith Brannigan

    • • Professor Emeritus of the University of Sheffield, excavator of the Latimer Roman villa; appearances on Time Team; this talk will be a celebration of 50 years of the Chess Valley Archaeological and Historical Society.

  • Lord or Peasant? The origin of the nucleated village and the open fields, with special reference to North Bucks / Dr Richard Jones

    • • Senior Lecturer in Landscape History at the University of Leicester;

      • researcher on the Whittlewood project

  • Theatres of Power: Buckinghamshire forests and chases / Dr Graham Jones

    • • Senior Visiting Research Associate of the University of Oxford and Honorary Visiting Fellow of the University of Leicester; joint author of two books on ‘Forests and chases of England and Wales’ 1000-1850

  • Conspicuous display: the 18th-century Great House, with special reference to Hartwell / Richard Wheeler of the National Trust

    • • NT national specialist on garden history; those who heard his talk to BLHN on West Wycombe will remember it as a tour de force.

  • Rothschild money moving a mountain: the creation and role of the Waddesdon gardens / Catherine Taylor

    • • Archivist of the new Waddesdon Archive at Windmill Hill, where the creation of the gardens is well-documented.

  • Conserving the Chilterns c1920-1950 / Dr Roland Quinault

    • • Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research; former Honorary Secretary of the Royal Historical Society; specialist in political history; publications include ‘London and the Land Question 1880-1914’.

Attendance is by pre-booked tickets:

£10 per person without lunch, £16 with lunch, full-time students under 25 free (without lunch). Book your place by downloading, printing and returning the Booking Form.

Any enquiries, please contact the society