Detailed Description
The conference will be held between Wednesday 23 July 2025 and Saturday 26 July 2025. The registration fee includes teas/coffees and lunches. This year’s conference is hosted by the University of Manchester and will take place in the Samuel Alexander building on campus (Oxford Road).
The speakers are:
Julia Barrow (University of Leeds): From Minster Priest to Cathedral Prebendary: How to Reward Clerical Ambition in England c.1050–c.1200
Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow): David I as King of ‘Scotland’
Stephen Church (University of Lincoln): ‘Angevin kingship’
Lois Huneycutt (University of Missouri): ‘Not a Very Bright Young Man’: The Life and Influence of Anselm of St Saba and Bury St Edmunds (d. 1148)
Charles Insley (University of Manchester): Charters, Diplomas and the (un-) making of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century
Sophie Kelly (University of Bristol): Episcopal display and the English crozier around the time of the Norman Conquest
Chelsea Shields-Más (State University of New York at Old Westbury): Equus, Runcinus, Palefridus, Summarius: The Horses of Domesday Book
Rebecca Tyson (University of Bristol), Contributions to the Conquest: The Abbey of Fécamp and Maritime Memory
Colin Veach (University of Hull): ‘A Second Angevin Lake’? The Irish Sea and the English Invasion of Ireland
Emily Winkler (University of Oxford): Madness and Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Vita Merlini
There are two organized dinners on the Wednesday and Friday. Please sign up for these below. The cost of these meals is not included in the registration fee. You will need to settle your own bill.
There are a wide variety of hotels in Manchester, including a nearby Travelodge and Hyatt. In addition, the conference has twenty student rooms held for us (until 19 May) on the Victoria Park site, just over a mile away from the conference venue. These cost £21.50 per night and there is a minimum stay of two nights.
Car parking is available at Booth Street East car park (postcode: M13 9SS). The car park is open 6am to midnight every day. To park for 24hrs will cost £12. Alternative parking is available at High Cambridge Street (postcode: M15 6AR). This car park is open 6am to 11.45 Monday to Friday, but closes at 10.45 at weekends. To park for 24hrs will cost £15.
