Writing the Biographies of the Overlooked: The Case of the Village Stonemason

  • Date and time: Thursday 16 June 2022, 5.30pm
  • Location: In-person only
    Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Booking: Booking required

Event details

This event is our annual Aylmer lecture. 

Steve Hindle explores the remarkable sources surviving for the Warwickshire village of Chilvers Coton to reconstruct the career and life experience of the mason and bricklayer who built its houses, repaired its walls and paved its pathways, paying particular attention to the material culture of his working and domestic environment.

Please register for this event by emailing history-enquiries@york.ac.uk by Monday 13 June 2022.

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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 CA since 2011. He was previously Professor of History at the University of Warwick; 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 just completing his long standing project on ‘The Social Topography of a Rural Community’, based on the Chilvers Coton archive.

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