The Devon & Cornwall Record Society is hosting a day seminar to showcase new postgraduate research on Exeter and Devon: and Cornwall, to be held at the Devon Heritage Centre on 11th May 2013. >
Devon & Cornwall Record Society
New Researchers and their work on Devon and Cornwall: postgraduate research in the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth
At the Devon Heritage Centre (formerly the Devon Record Office), Great Moor House, Exeter, Saturday, 11 May 2013
To book please send a cheque for £23 (for DCRS members £20), made payable to the Devon & Cornwall Record Society, to Mrs Elizabeth Franceschini, DCRS, The Devon & Exeter Institution, 6 Cathedral Close, Exeter, EX1 1EZ. Please provide:
Number of places required:
Name:
Email address for confirmation:
Please note any dietary restrictions and enclose a sae if written acknowledgment is required. Last day for booking is 1 May 2013.
The Devon Heritage Centre is located about three miles east of the centre of Exeter, and beside the Honiton Road Park and Ride Car Park. Access to the building is via the front entrance which faces away from Honiton Road. Major road connections are via the M5 from the north, the A30 from the east, the A38 from the south and the A30 from the west. Details of public transport can be found on the Devon Heritage Centre website.
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Devon & Cornwall Record Society
New Researchers and their work on Devon and Cornwall: postgraduate research in the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth
At the Devon Heritage Centre (formerly the Devon Record Office), Great Moor House, Exeter, Saturday, 11 May 2013
- 9.30: AGM
- 10.00: Coffee
- Morning Session Chair: Professor Andrew Thorpe (University of Exeter)
- 10.30: Tamsin Bailey, 'Social climbing? The cloth trade in early modern Exeter'
- 11.15: Kate Osborne, `In search of the Chorus in the Shadows - the less well-known people of Elizabethan Exeter’
- 12.00: Marion Hardy ‘Subsisting on charity and living by their wits: travellers in C17th Devon’
- 1.00: Lunch
- Afternoon Session Chair: Dr Catherine Rider (University of Exeter)
- 2.00: Douglas Watson, '"The Daring Arm of Enterprise" - Devonport Mechanics' Institute in a National Context'
- 2.45: Richard Batten, 'The dreaded war cloud has burst': The Home Front in Devon during 1914.
- 3.45: Tea
To book please send a cheque for £23 (for DCRS members £20), made payable to the Devon & Cornwall Record Society, to Mrs Elizabeth Franceschini, DCRS, The Devon & Exeter Institution, 6 Cathedral Close, Exeter, EX1 1EZ. Please provide:
Number of places required:
Name:
Email address for confirmation:
Please note any dietary restrictions and enclose a sae if written acknowledgment is required. Last day for booking is 1 May 2013.
The Devon Heritage Centre is located about three miles east of the centre of Exeter, and beside the Honiton Road Park and Ride Car Park. Access to the building is via the front entrance which faces away from Honiton Road. Major road connections are via the M5 from the north, the A30 from the east, the A38 from the south and the A30 from the west. Details of public transport can be found on the Devon Heritage Centre website.
View Larger Map
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