SNSBI 2009 Salford meeting (The Old Fire Station, University of Salford, November 14)

Names and the north of England

• John Insley (Universität Heidelberg): The place-names of Lancashire and their history
• John Walton (Leeds Metropolitan University): The politics of naming  —  public houses and railway locomotives
• Alan Crosby (University of Lancaster): Black Brook and Treacle Row  —  unofficial place-names in 19th and 20th century Lancashire
• Turi King (University of Leicester): Using surnames to investigate the genetic legacy of the Vikings
• Linda Corrigan (Knutsford): Ploughboy or Lord? Some thoughts on the recurrence of the personal name Roger in the early recorded place-names of South Cumbria