Writing the Biographies of the Overlooked: The Case of the Village Stonemason Annual Aylmer Lecture
Event details
In our 2022 Aylmer Lecture, Steve Hindle explored the remarkable sources surviving for the Warwickshire village of Chilvers Coton to reconstruct the life of the mason who built its houses, repaired its walls and paved its pathways. Hindle paid particular attention to the material culture of his working and domestic environment.
About the speaker
Dr Steve Hindle
Dr Steve Hindle has served as W.M Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California, since 2011.
He has previously worked as Professor of History at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The State and Social Change in Early Modern England (2000) and On The Parish? (2004); and editor of Remaking English Society (2012).
He is currently completing his long standing project on ‘The Social Topography of a Rural Community’, based on the Chilvers Coton archive.