The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne: PGR Conference

Please join us for our first postgraduate research conference on Saturday September 7th. The event will be held in the Keeton-Lomas Lecture Theatre (G.09) - this is on the ground floor of the Armstrong Building on Newcastle University main campus. For access please enter via the main entrance (opposite the RVI), which is an accessible entrance, or via the side entrance, off the quadrangle (please note there are steps up to this entrance).

The event welcomes members and non-members from 9:45 with a planned start at 10am. We have seven papers this year from researchers at Northumbria University and Newcastle University.

• Kerri Armstrong, 'The Women of Durham, Newcastle and York Gaol, 1853-1887'
• Charlotte Emily Crawshaw, 'Learning through Letters: The Distance Education of Matthew Montagu through the Correspondence of Elizabeth Montagu'
• Damian Rudge, 'A Chaîne Opératoire of Lead used in the Military Bath House at Red House, Corbridge'
• Daniel Riddell, 'Quaysiders: The Collegial Conflict of Nineteenth Century Merchants and Shipbrokers in Newcastle-upon-Tyne'
• Olivia Colborn, 'Discovering Modernism in Newcastle's Literary and Philosophical Society, 1910-1939'
• Abby Hammond, 'tbc'
• June Watson, 'Health Tourism: The Northumbrian Aristocracy in Madeira 1810-1812'

Tea/coffee will be provided during a short comfort break, but attendees will need to make their own lunch arrangements following the conference end at 1pm.

Host or Publisher Sarah Collins