The Experience of Garrison Towns in Southern England

Southern History Society Conference 2023: The Experience of Garrison Towns in Southern England

University of Winchester, Saturday 4th November 2023

Venue: St Alphege building, room SAB 002

9:30: Welcome and introductions

9:50-10:20: Kevin Linch (University of Leeds): A region transformed? Garrisons and the South of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

10:20-10:50: Coffee

10:50-11:20: Gary Baker (University of Southampton): The Kentish Device Forts: Men, Munitions, and Management, c.1540-1640

11:20-12:20: Keynote 1: Craig Lambert (University of Southampton): Maritime Connections Across the South Coast: A Study of the Shipping, Seaborne Trade and Maritime Communities of Kent, Hampshire and Dorset, c. 1350-1600

12:20-13.30: Lunch break

13:30-14:00: Di Budden (University of Winchester): ‘For the heillying of certan p[er]sons hurt upon the see’: Approaches to medical care in Henry VIII’ army by sea

14:00-14:30: William Hoade (independent scholar) and Tom Watson (University of Winchester; Bournemouth University): Garrisons on the move: Hanoverian and Hessian troop camps in southern England in 1756

14:30-15:00: Coffee

15:00-15:30: Lisa Wojahn (University of Exeter): RN officers’ wives and their interactions with community in nineteenth-century southern England

15:30-16:30: Keynote 2: Elaine Murphy (University of Plymouth): Women and the navy in southern port towns in seventeenth-century England

16:30: Concluding statements and thanks

Conference fee, including refreshments and light lunch, is £30.00 with a student rate of £15.00.

Registration and payment information

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For enquiries, contact the conference organisers, Dr Simon Sandall, Simon.Sandall@winchester.ac.uk, or Dr Cindy Wood, Cindy.Wood@winchester.ac.uk