SNSBI 2006 Bristol meeting (Burwalls Conference Centre, April 07–10)

This meeting is reported upon by P.R.K. in Nomina 29, 147–149.

Friday 7 April

• Dr Michael Costen: Early settlement in North Somerset

Saturday 8 April

• Prof Diana Whaley: Hesitation phenomena in the North: place-names in -ham and -ingaham
• Mark Wood: Place-name evidence for the Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon transition in Bernicia
• John Baker: Place-names and Anglo-Saxon defensive organisation south of the Humber
• Joy Jenkyns: The Language of Landscape: reading the Anglo-Saxon countryside (LangScape) Project
• Dr James Kemble: Essex place-names: a database at work
• Richard Morgan: Some place-names of Gwent
• Dr John Insley: OE wealh: some semantic issues
• Dr Carole Hough: Common-place place-names
• Ellen Bramwell: The Community names of North Uist, Western Isles
• Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich: Some Irish family names
• Jennifer Scherr: The English street-names of Gibraltar
• Dr Chris Lewis: Naming paradise: suburban house-names in seaside Sussex
• Oliver Padel (Cornwall): Personal names in the Bodmin manumissions

Sunday 9 April

• Dr Margaret Scott: Scots and English historical lexis as seen through the Onomasticon
• Dr Kay Muhr: Place-names on Richard Bartlett's maps of Ulster c.1602
• Professor Richard Webber: Understanding migration from the analysis of personal names - case examples from Cornwall and Devon
• Coach excursion to Glastonbury, via Congresbury church, Wedmore and Meare led by Dr Michael Costen
• Professor Richard Coates: On self-explanatory place-names

photos

Jennifer Sherr and Paul Cullen at Glastonbury, and Congresbury church.