Recent publications: "Martlesham and Newbourne - a note on two obscure Suffolk names". Journal of the English Place-Name Society 38, 31-36 (2006)
"Seven wells". Journal of the English Place-Name Society, 39, 7-44 (2007). "Freemantle". To appear in Journal of the English Place-Name Society 40, (2008).
Email:
Jean CAMERON Still (in 2008) collecting botanical place-names (main collection deposited with EPNS) and collecting minor names in the Thurgaton wapentake of Nottinghamshire.
postal address: Mrs Jean Cameron, 16 The Cloisters, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 2FR.
Scott CATLEDGE Collecting instances of Norse “Ţveit” in Medieval Norman place-names in Normandy and Britain
Richard COATES (2007) I hope to complete a dictionary of Sussex place-names for the Popular series of the EPNS within a year or so. I am still working on the Survey of English Place-Names for Hampshire, and also conducting a range of etymological studies with a Scandinavian focus.
I will be giving a paper on Scandinavian minor names in Lincolnshire at the 14th Nordic Onomastics Conference, Borgarnes, Iceland, August 2007. I am guest editor for an issue of Onoma on name theory.
I recently completed, and put online with the help of Dr Seongsook Choi, a bibliographical tool called Names in Shakespeare Online.
publications: Nomina No 30: "Shoreditch and Car Dyke: two allusions to Romano-British built features in later names containing OE dic, with reflections on variable place-name structure."
Nomina No 29: "Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rašid"
Nomina No 29: "Ludgate"
Web page: www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/llas/staff_coates_r
email: Richard.Coates@uwe.ac.uk.
Ann COLE. (Oxford) Studying place-name evidence for the communications network in Anglo-Saxon England.
postal address: Mrs Ann Cole, 44 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7RJ.
Linda M CORRIGAN (2008) The place-names of Cumbria, including the North Lonsdale Hundred of Lancashire.
email: linda@corrigan.demon.co.uk
Barrie COX (Nottingham): The Place-Names of Leicestershire (EPNS).
publication: Part 3 The East Goscote Hundred EPNS (2004).
Paul CULLEN The Place-Names of Kent"(EPNS); and "The Vocabulary of English Place Names" (Institute for Name Studies).
Email: paul.cullen@nottingham.ac.uk
Gillian FELLOWS-JENSEN (University of Copenhagen)
publication: "Extermination or economic exploitation?" (Proceedings of the Society's Shetland Conference, April 2003)
Ian FRASER (2008) Continuing research on names from oral tradition in Gaelic Scotland.
postal address: 21 Cowan Road, Edinburgh EH11 1RL.
John FREEMAN(London) (2008) The Place-Names of Herefordshire(EPNS), A Dictionary of Herefordshire Place-Names (EPNS)
postal Address: 27 Glenluce Road, London SE3 7SD.
Peder GAMMELTOFT (University of Copenhagen)
publications: "Islands great and small: a brief survey of the names of islands and skerries in Shetland" (Proceedings of the Society's Shetland Conference, April 2003)
Nomina No 26:"`I sauh a tour on a tort, tryelyche i-maket', part two: on place-names in -toft in England"
Margaret GELLING (University of Birmingham) Still (2008) working on Shropshire Place Names.
Publication: "Part V - The Hundreds of Pimhill and Bradford North" EPNS (2006).
telephone: 0121 427 6469. postal address: Dr Margaret Gelling, 31 Periera Road, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9JG.
Alison GRANT (University of Glasgow)
publication: "The Origin of the Ayrshire -by names" (Proceedings of the Society's Shetland Conference, April 2003)
Carole HOUGH (University of Glasgow) (2008) Full details of her research, including a full bibliography, may be seen on her homepage. Annual bibliographies for Anglo-Saxon England, Journal of the English Place-Name Society, and Nomina.
publications: Nomina No 30: "Commonplace place-names"
‘Eccles in English and Scottish place-names’ (article forthcoming in Journal of the English Place-Name Society);
‘Dictionaries of place-names’ (chapter forthcoming in The Oxford History of English Lexicography, edited by A. P. Cowie).
Nomina No 26: "Onomastic uses of the term `white'"
email: c.hough@englang.arts.gla.ac.uk
website www.gla.ac.uk/departments/englishlanguage/staff/caroleahough
John INSLEY (University of Heidelberg) The Place-Names of Lancashire" (EPNS)
Alan G. JAMES (Ashbourne) (2008) Review of evidence for the Brittonic language in southern Scotland and northern England "The Old North" (intended outcome: book-length discussion and annotated lexicon of relevant place-name elements.)
email: alanatthelimes@hotmail.com
Terry JAMES (2007) Carmarthenshire Place-names Project: Database of 44,000 forms based on c12,500 headwords see web-page www.carnantiqs.org.uk .
Joy JENKYNS (Oxford) The Language of Landscape: Reading the Anglo-Saxon Countryside" (3-year AHRB-funded project to make accessible over the web an electronic corpus of Anglo-Saxon charter boundaries)
web-site www.langscape.org.uk
Jake KING (University of Edinburgh) studying Scottish river names
publication: Nomina No 28: "‘Lochy’ names and Adomnán’s Nigra Dea"
email: j.w.king@sms.ed.ac.uk
Peter KITSON (2008) OE linguistic material, including AS charter-boundaries
postal address: 39 Shaw Lane, Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, Worcs B60.
Susan LAFLIN (Birmingham) (2008) Maintaining SNSBI web-site, studying "-ford" place-names in Shropshire and one-name studies of the surnames PREEN and LAFLIN.
Web-sites: "-ford" placenames www.SueLaflin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk,
Preen surname www.Preen.org.uk and
Laflin Surname www.Laflin.org.uk.
email: webmaster@snsbi.org.uk
Chris LEWIS (Victoria County History: Sussex) (2008) Personal names and cultural identity in England 900-1200;
Place-names in the 1686 War Office list of places with inns providing lodging and stabling;
microtoponymy of selected parishes in Sussex.
For further details, see the web-site www.vchsussex.net
email: chris.lewis@sas.ac.uk
Peter McCLURE (University of Hull)
publications: Nomina No 28: "The kinship of Jack, II, pet-forms of Middle English personal names with the suffixes -cus and -cok"
Nomina No 26:"The kinship of Jack: I, pet forms of Middle English personal names with the suffixes -kin, -ke, -man and -cot"
Postal address: 47 West End Road, Cottingham, Hull HU16 5PW.
Kay MUHR (2008) For details, please see the web-page www.ulsterplacenames.org
W.F.H. NICOLAISEN (University of Aberdeen) articles for special volumes of Onoma on teaching and on names in literature.
Concise Dictionary of Scottish Place-Names
Arthur OWEN (Lincolnshire) publications: "Traiectus/Tric/Skegness: a Domesday name explained." (article for "Lincolnshire History and Archaeology", with R. Coates)
Nomina No 27: "Land drainage records: a source for name studies in East Lincolnshire"
Hywel Wyn OWEN (University of Bangor) Study of Flintshire Place-Names (in progress 2008).
publications: Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (AHRB-sponsored)(2007);
Database of the place-names of Wales (computerization of the Melville Richards Archive; AHRB-sponsored)(2005).
Nomina No 29: "Archif Melville Richards: a place-name resource database for Wales"
e-mail: hywwyn@aol.com
David N. PARSONS (University of Nottingham) "The Place-Names of Suffolk" (EPNS);
"The Vocabulary of English Place-Names" (Institute for Name Studies).
David POSTLES (University of Leicester) "The North through its Names" (English Surnames Series);
the poetics of naming in Early Modern England; the politics of address and naming in Early Modern England.
publication: Nomina No 27: "Negotiating bynames".
Duncan W. PROBERT (University of Birmingham) British Academy PDF examining language change and the transition from British to English dominance in Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire.
email: D.W.Probert@bham.ac.uk
postal address: 26 Grove Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 6ST.
John and Sheila ROWLANDS (Aberystwyth) Analysis of Welsh Surnames.
publications: Nomina no 29: "The distribution of surnames in Wales"
Nomina No 28: "The transition from patronymic names to settled surnames in Wales" postal address: P.O.Box 37, Aberystwyth SY23 2WL.
Karl I. SANDRED (University, of Uppsala)
publication: "The Place-Names of Norfolk" (EPNS).
David SELLAR
publication: "The Significance of Names: Scandinavian personal names in the Northern and Western Isles" (Proceedings of the Society's Shetland Conference, April 2003).
Veronica SMART (2008) Names on Anglo-Saxon coinage, especially 10th century monyers.
email: r.smart489@btinternet.com
Simon TAYLOR (University of St Andrews)
publication: "The Place-Names of Fife".
email: st4@st-and.ac.uk
Frank THORN (University of Hull) (2008)
The Phillimore edition of Domesday Book is now available on line from the Arts and Humanities Data Service at Essex University as study number 5694 (http://ahds.ac.uk/history/collections/recent-releases.htm ) It can also be accessed via the Domesday Explorer website: www.domesdaybook.net/ This electronic version is the work of a team based on the University of Hull: John Palmer, Natasha Hodgson, Caroline Thorn, Frank Thorn. Nine counties have been fully revised with a greatly enlarged commentary and work is continuing on others. For reasons of copyright, Yorkshire is not included, but Caroline and Frank Thorn are working on a new translation and commentary.
email: frankthorn@yahoo.com
Shaun TYAS (2008) collecting modern business names with a medieval affectation. email: pwatkins@pwatkinspublishing.fsnet.co.uk
Sara L. UCKELMAN (University of Amsterdam) (March 2008) - Three Projects:
- A Dictionary of Tudor London Names
- Middle English Bynames in Early Fourteenth-Century London
- Index of Names in the Suffolk Poll Tax
webpage: http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/names.html
email: suckelma@illc.uva.nl
Doreen WAUGH (University of Glasgow) Currently (2007) working on a dictionary of Caithness place-names and on the village names of Westside in Shetland. The Shetland village names are being studied in conjunction with the Shetland Place-Name Project and data from the villages of Sand and Twatt are being entered into their database.
publications: "Some place-names from Twatt - On Da Wastside" (Proceedings of the Society's Shetland Conference, April 2003).
Nomina No 26: "Some place-names from the Old Scatness Project, Shetland"
Diana WHALEY (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)(2007)
publication: "A Dictionary of Lake District Place Names" (published by English Place-Name Society 2006);
email: d.c.whaley@ncl.ac.uk
John Garth WILKINSON (Torphin) Continuing research on Romano-British and Brythinic place-names, particularly in northern Britain.
publications: "Cairnpapple: The Middle Sanctuary? A Quest Through the Sacred Landscapes of Our Islands" (2-volumes, place-name based, inter-disciplinary study);
Nomina No 27: "*Lanum and Lugudunum: full lune, and light on an unkempt wraith"