Event: Vernacular Architecture Group winter conference
When: 11:30am, Sunday 11th January, 2026 Where: University of Nottingham, Monica Partridge Foyer This year, The Vernacular Architecture Group is holding its winter conference on the theme Vernacular buildings in urban contexts: the study of urban building types and integration with urban studies. Over the past 25 years a number of notable studies have demonstrated the huge…
Event: In conversation with artist Jo Lathwood
When: 7-9pm, Thursday October 23rd 2025 Where: East Quay Gallery, Watchet, Devon, TA23 0AQ Jo Lathwood’s current show, Down the Hatch, focuses on seventeenth century brewers and sellers of ale. I’m really excited to visit so I can enjoy (and even interact with) the artworks. She and curator George Harwood-Smith very kindly asked if I’d…
Publication: Group Petitioning and the Performance of Neighbourliness in the West Midlands, 1589-1700
In 2023, I published my first academic article in Cultural and Social History . It was called Group Petitioning and the Performance of Neighbourliness in the West Midlands, 1589-1700 and you can read it here. It looked at petitions from ordinary groups of people about everyday matters. I was keen to explore the process of…
