FRIDAY 7 APRIL 2006
3.00 pm onwards Registration

8.00 pm Welcome: Dr Oliver Padel (President)
Evening Lecture
8.05 - 9.00 pm Dr Michael Costen "Early settlement in North Somerset"

9.15pm Committee meeting

(The picture shows two of the group during the outing to Glastonbury Abbey on Sunday afternoon.)

SATURDAY 8 APRIL 2006

Morning Lectures 9.15 - 9.45 Prof Diana Whaley "Hesitation phenomena in the North: place-names in - ham and - ingaham"
9.45 - 10.15 Mark Wood "Place-name evidence for the Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon transition in Bernicia"
10.15 - 10.45 John Baker "Place-names and Anglo-Saxon defensive organisation south of the Humber"
11.15 - 11.45 Joy Jenkyns "The Language of Landscape: reading the Anglo-Saxon countryside (LangScape) Project"
11.45 - 12.15 Dr James Kemble "Essex Place-Names: a database at work"
12.15 - 1.00pm Richard Morgan "Some place-names of Gwent"
Afternoon Lectures.
2.15 - 2.45 Dr John Insley "OE wealh: some semantic issues"
2.45 - 3.00 Dr Carole Hough "Common-place place-names"
3.30 - 4.00 Ellen Bramwell "The Community names of North Uist, Western Isles"
4.00 - 4.30 Dr Conchubhar O Crualaoich "Some Irish family names"
4.45 - 5.15 Jennifer Scherr "The English street-names of Gibraltar"
5.15 - 5.45 Dr Chris Lewis "Naming paradise: suburban house-names in seaside Sussex"

Evening Lecture
8.00 - 9.00pm Dr Oliver Padel (Cornwall) "Personal names in the Bodmin manumissions"
9.00 pm Brunel 200 - Fireworks to celebrate Clifton Suspension Bridge and the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

SUNDAY 9 APRIL 2006.
9.15 AGM
Morning Lectures
9.45 - 10.15 Dr Margaret Scott "Scots and English historical lexis as seen through the Onomasticon"
10.15 - 10.45 Dr Kay Muhr "Place-names on Richard Bartlett's maps of Ulster c1602"
11.15 - 12.00 Professor Richard Webber "Understanding migration from the analysis of personal names - case examples from Cornwall and Devon"

Afternoon Excursion
1.30 Coach excursion to Glastonbury, via Congresbury church, Wedmore and Meare led by Dr Michael Costen.

(The picture shows Congresbury church.)

Evening Lecture
8.00 - 9.00 pm Professor Richard Coates "On self-explanatory place-names"

MONDAY 10 APRIL 2006
9.15am Committee meeting

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