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Anglo Saxon heritage revealed in annual lecture

Posted on 27/04/09
University of Leicester

New perspectives on the economy of early medieval England will be revealed in the annual W G Hoskins Lecture at the University of Leicester on Saturday 16th May at 2.30pm.

In her lecture entitled Exploring Anglo-Saxon Farms, Dr Ros Faith, who is currently working on a book on the subject for Oxford University Press, will discuss some of her research approaches to this new field.

Dr Faith is a graduate of the University of Oxford. She received a PhD from the University of Leicester Centre (then Department) for English Local History in 1962, for her thesis on the peasant land market in Berkshire in the later middle ages. In 1997 she published The English Peasantry and the Growth of Lordship, and in 2002 she was awarded the John Nichols prize for her essay on a South Devon estate in the Anglo-Saxon period.

The lecture has been arranged by the Friends of the Centre for English Local History at the University, and is open to the general public. Admission to the public is 2, but free to the Friends of the Centre for English Local History and all current University of Leicester students, from any discipline.

It will take place at 2.30pm-4.00pm in the Ken Edwards Building Lecture Theatre 1 on the Universitys main campus, followed by tea, cakes and the Friends annual second-hand book sale at the Centre, 1 Salisbury Road, Leicester. Everyone attending the lecture is welcome to come along to the tea by prior booking with Pam Fisher, pjf7@le.ac.uk.

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