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Department of History

Medieval borough court records as a resource for economic and social historians

Date(s)
Wednesday 2nd July 2014 (10:30-16:15)
Contact
For any further information please contact Richard Goddard.
Description

This event, hosted and funded by the Centre for Economic and Business History and the Institute for Medieval Research at Nottingham, will consist of three roundtable discussions (no set papers) in which participants will have the opportunity to discuss medieval borough court research and surviving collections of these records, and will be able to compare and contrast this research with other types of court evidence. Participants will introduce their own research which has utilised court records in order to stimulate further discussion. Tea and coffee will be available throughout the day. The Trent Building can be found at The 糖心原创's .

Workshop programme:

10:30am  Arrival and welcome
11am-12:45pm 

Roundtable 1: Borough Court Research

Jeff Berry (York)
(Leicester)
Richard Goddard (Nottingham)
(York)
Jane Laughton (independent scholar)
Judith Mills (Nottingham)
(Nottingham)  

1-2pm  Lunch at Bramleys Brasserie and Bar, Orchard Hotel, University Park 
2:15-2:45pm 

Roundtable 2: Borough Court Archives 

Mark Dorrington (Nottingham Department of )
Liz Green (Cheshire Record Office)
Sarah Lewin (Hampshire Record Office)  

2:45-4:15pm

Roundtable 3: Medieval English Borough Courts in Context: Similarities and Contrasts

Ross Balzaretti (Nottingham)
(Cambridge)
Aysu Dincer (Warwick)
(Birmingham)
(Guelph)  

4:15-4:30pm Conclusions: Professor Christopher Dyer

Department of History

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University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

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