Saturday 12th October 2024. Kings Church, Brooks Road, Lewes, BN7 2BY
An exploration of how people in the Tudor and Stuart periods made a living, what they wore, where they lived and worshipped, and how they were helped if they became very poor. The associated handbook will include a brief overview of key events such as the closure of the monasteries by Henry VIII, and the emergence of England as a Protestant nation, the attempt by Spain to invade England and the failure of the Spanish Armada, the English Civil War and Commonwealth, and the restoration of the Stuarts as monarchs.
BOOKING: via website of the Sussex School of History and Archaeology – conferences. http://www.sussexarchaeology.org/tudor-stuarts-programme
Fee: £30 in person, £25 students, £15 on line.
10.00: A brief introduction to the day – Dr David Rudling
10.05: Living in a provincial town – Elizabethan Chichester
Dr Caroline Adams. Retired Archivist – Independent palaeographer and historian specialising in Sussex and the early modern period Independent Historian specialising in the Tudor period.
10.45: Living in a new town – Brighton a fishing and coastal carrying town 1540-1700.
Dr Sue Berry FRHistS Independent historian and writer.
11.25: Break with refreshments [provided]
11.45: Social attitudes in Tudor and Stuart Chichester: the evidence of the wills.
Dr James McInnes. Independent historian with a particular interest in the ‘plaine country fellow.’
12.20: Tudor and Stuart Great Houses in an age of religious upheaval
Maurice Howard OBE, FSA, FSA (Scot), Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Sussex
13.00: Lunch [not provided] You are welcome to bring your own lunch or there are shops and cafes where you can purchase refreshments nearby.
14.00: Vernacular buildings in Sussex: some impacts of changes in design from c1500-1700
Joe Thompson Conservator, researcher and lecturer on historic timber-framed building.
14.40: Clothing in Seventeenth century Sussex
Dr Danae Tankard, FRHistS Reader in Social History University of Chichester.
15.20: Break with refreshments [provided]
15.40: The poor and the impact of the Elizabethan Poor laws
Dr Mary Rudling, Independent Historian, expert on the Poor Law.
16.20: The impact of the Reformation on parish churches and worship
Dr Andrew Foster, FRHistS Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Southampton and Kent.
17.00 – 17.15: Q&A
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