2002 Conference at Newcastle-on-Tyne.

The 2002 annual conference was held at the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne from 5th to 8th April 2002. It was organised (very successfully) by Dr Diana Whaley and those who attended enjoyed an interesting and varied programme of lectures as well as outings in the neighbourhood. The conference report appeared in NOMINA Volume 26 and some of the papers in Volumes 25 and 26 (as indicated).

Programme.

This included the following:

Richard Bailey, “Bernician sites: what needed naming?”
Richard Coates: “Lindisfarne"
Ann Cole and Margaret Gelling, “Is there a place-name code stretching from the south to the north?”
Paul Cullen, “Grappling with M”
Ian Fraser, “Scottish surnames: a brief survey”
Peder Gammeltoft, “I sauh a tour on a toft, tryelyche i-maket, part 2: Place-names in -toft in England” (N26)
Alison Grant, “Inversion compounds” (N25)
Carole Hough, “‘White’ in place-names and surnames” (N26)
John Insley, “The Goths in S. Gaul: the evidence of the names”
Alan James, “The hunting of the Snook”
John Koch, “Northern English place-names in early Welsh sources”
Nollaig O MuraHe, “Early Ireland: the Anglo-Saxon connection”
Bill Nicolaisen, “North-west Germanic place-nomenclature”
George Redmonds, “Surnames, genes and genealogy”
Veronica Smart, “Pitit and Litelman - an onomastic conundrum” (N25)
Liz Sobell, “Riggs to Pingles: field-names of a Hexhamshire farm”
Victor Watts, “Field-names of South Durham” (N25)
Doreen Waugh, “Place-names of Old Scatness” (N26)

Late on Saturday afternoon there was a coach trip: Newcastle Sights and Street-Names: Bridges, Quayside, and Cathedral, ending with a reception at Newcastle University’s Museum of Antiquities. On Sunday afternoon Richard Bailey, Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon Civilization at the University of Newcastle, led the coach trip to Lindisfarne via Yeavering and Milfield.

Conference delegates at the Yeavering site.

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