Christmas Meeting at Lavenham Village Hall Late medieval shops and workshops in East Anglia - Leigh Alston The market towns and villages of Suffolk and Essex are rich in well preserved medieval and Tudor shops due to the region’s economic success in the 15th and early-16th centuries, followed by relative poverty after the collapse of […]
Dr Joseph Harley is a Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University and an expert in the history of poverty, welfare, material culture and domestic life. His most recent publications include Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700 (2025) and At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, […]
Tony Redman has spent five years surveying every stone-built building in Suffolk, and this talk will be based on his new book “The Buildings Stones of Suffolk, and the people who worked them”, recently published by the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. Tony has identified 50 types of stone which are present in 700 […]