Past Ludlow Lectures.
2010-2011 History and
Landscape of Ludlow and the Marches
2 Nov 2010 Roy Coles "Fair Ludlow
Town Part 1"
9 Nov 2010 Prof Michael Rosenbaum "The
deep structure of Shropshire" followed by "From Continental Drift to Plate
Tectonics"
16 Nov 2010 Prof Michael Rosenbaum "The
building blocks of Shropshire: Rocks" followed by "Building the Blocks:
Shropshire's history from a geological perspective"
23 Nov 2010 Prof Michael Rosenbaum
"Evolution of the Shropshire landscape" followed by "Modification by ice"
30 Nov 2010 Dr Margaret Clark "David
Lloyd and his place amongst historians"
7 Dec 2010 John Nash "The
history and restoration of
Lane's House"
1 Feb 2011 Roy Coles "Fair Ludlow
Town Part 2"
8 Feb 2011 Julia Ionides "The
Ludlow Guildhall"
15 Feb 2011 Andrew Pike "Castles
of the Marches"
8 Mar 2011 Jean Brown
"Ludlow's Victorian History"
15 Mar 2011 Michael Page "Keeping
Time in Ludlow"
22 Mar 2011 Duncan James "The
Buildings of Ludlow"
2008-2009 Ludlow, the Marches,
and the Wider World
Lecture 1: Portrait of the Marches
Lecture 2: Early days
Lecture 3: Shaping the Landscape
Lecture 4A: Medieval Life
Lecture 4B: Pilgrimage
Lecture 5A: Renaissance and Reformation
Lecture 5B: Tudor Time Line
Lecture 6A: Elizabeth and James
Lecture 6B: Council of the Marches
Lecture 7A: Civil War
Lecture 7B: Consuming passions
Lecture 8: Improvement
Lecture 9: Enlightenment
Lecture 10: Folklore
Lecture 11A: Prince Regent to Prince Consort
Lecture 11B: British Empire
Lecture 12A: The Greatness of Britain
Lecture 12B: Into the Modern World
Lecture 13: The Great War, 1914-18
Lecture 14: Flappers and filmstars
Lecture 15: Depression to Conflict
Lecture 16: Austerity to Boom
Lecture 17: the Spirit of Welshness
Lecture 18: the Sixties
Lecture 19: Wither Ludlow?
2007-2008 Great Houses of
Shropshire
Lecture 1: Overview; the roles
and functions of the Great Houses
Lecture 2: Houses before 1660
Lecture 3: Architectural history, 1660-1800
Lecture 4: Architectural history from 1800
Lecture 5: The gentry: the Actons of Aldenham
Lecture 6: The Great House as a power base - The Harleys of Brampton Bryan
Lecture 7: Empire and Industry - Clive of India and his descendants
Lecture 8: The Great House and the village
Lecture 9: The land around the Great House; Pairings of Country and Town
Houses
Lecture 10: Leisure and pastimes
Lecture 11: Timber and Brick: the master mason from medieval to Stuart
times, 1500-1689
Lecture 12: The architect from the 18th to the 20th centuries
Lecture 13: The Plan of the House and what it tells us about life styles
Lecture 14: Land around the Great House
Lecture 15: Lords of the Manor and their Ladies
Lecture 16: Life in Service
Lecture 17: Sons and Daughters of the Great House: Staying at Home and Going
Forth
Lecture 18: Transport at the Great House: Horses to Cars
Lecture 19: The Rich Man in his castle, the Poor Man at his gate
Lecture 20: Challenges to the Great House tradition
2006-2007 Historic Towns and
Cities
Lecture 1: Urban elements: an
introduction to the course
Lecture 2: The first towns and cities
Lecture 3: Towns and cities of the classical world: Greece and Rome
Lecture 4: Roman towns in Britain
Lecture 5: The early Anglo-Saxons and their towns
Lecture 6: Later Anglo-Saxon and Danish towns
Lecture 7: The growth of towns under the Normans and afterwards
Lecture 8: The origins and early development of Ludlow, a composite town
Lecture 9: Life in medieval towns: Shrewsbury and other case studies
Lecture 10: Urban myths, legends and entertainments
Lecture 11: Renaissance cities of Europe
Lecture 12: Tudor and Stuart London, a case study
Lecture 13: Urban renaissance after 1660
Lecture 14: Urban planning, including Paris and Washington
Lecture 15: Small towns in early modern Europe
Lecture 16: Spas and seaside resorts
Lecture 17: Towns and cities of the industrial revolution
Lecture 18: Cities of the British Empire and across the world
Lecture 19: Urban problems, the Civic Gospel
Lecture 20: Towns and cities in the works of artists and writers
2005-2006 Victorian Ludlow and
its Countryside
Lecture 1: The Victorian Age
Lecture 2: Country houses and their estates
Lecture 3: Agriculture
Lecture 4: Crafts, manufacturing and communications
Lecture 5: Ludlow in 1843
Lecture 6: Ludlow as a Market town
Lecture 7: The Borough Council
Lecture 8: The Great Lawsuit
Lecture 9: Parliamentary Representation
Lecture 10: Leisure
Lecture 11: Population and society
Lecture 12: The Church of England, Non-Conformity
Lecture 13: Education
Lecture 14: Poor law and outrelief; the Workhouse
Lecture 15: Crime and punishment
Lecture 16: The villages
Lecture 17: Ludlow in 1910
Lecture 18: Ludlow suburbs 1
Lecture 19: Ludlow suburbs 2
Lecture 20: Ludlow and the British Empire
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