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