SNSBI 2014 one-day conference – A Tribute to Margaret Gelling

This meeting was held on Saturday 25 October 2014 at the Gateway Education and Arts Centre, Chester St, Shrewsbury.

Programme

• 10.00 – 10.30 Paul Cavill, ‘Margaret and the English Place-Name Society’
• 10.30 – 11.00 Ann Cole, ‘Margaret and topographical place-names’
• 11.00 – 11.30 Della Hooke, ‘Understanding the Anglo-Saxon landscape’
• 11.30 – 12.00 Ros Faith, ‘The changing face of settlement studies’
• 12.00 – 12.30 Paul Cullen, ‘Margaret and toponymic surnames’
• 2.00 Message from Professor Chris Dyer (University of Leicester)
• 2.15 – 2.30 Jayne Carroll, ‘Completing the Place-Names of Shropshire’
• 2.30 – 3.10 Helen Watt, ‘On supplementing Margaret’s collection of forms for Shropshire’
• 3.10 – 3.50 John Baker, ‘Signposts to Shropshire’s past’
• 3.50 – 4.30 David Parsons, ‘Shropshire river-names’