Tickets
Tickets (to include coffee/ tea, biscuits and sandwich lunch, Vegetarian options available) are obtainable by completing the booking sheet and returning together with payment of £10.00
Our contributors:
Ian Bapty MA, Senior Projects Archaeologist (Resource Management) Herefordshire Archaeology. Ian managed the English Heritage/Cadw initiative on the practical conservation of Offa's Dyke (1999-2006), and is Secretary of the Offa's Dyke Association. His professional work currently includes a major English Heritage funded archaeology and minerals extraction assessment study for the county of Herefordshire.
Margaret Hill BEd MPhil is an independent archaeologist with a long association with the University of Manchester where her interest in Early Medieval and Landscape History included extensive work on Offa's and Wat's dykes.
David Stephenson MA DPhil, Honorary Research Fellow at the School of History & Welsh History the University of Bangor is an authority on Welsh Medieval History. He has a particular interest in the northern Welsh March in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Damian Tyler BA MA PhD currently teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University and also contributes to Manchester's Continuing Education Network. His research interests include Anglo Saxon kingship, Penda and Mercia.
Martin J. Ryan Ph D, Lecturer in Early Medieval History School of Arts, Histories, and Culture, The University of Manchester. His principal research interests are the Church in pre-Viking England and the intellectual culture of the Atlantic Archipelago in the Early Middle Ages.
Programme
10.15-10.30am - Arrival, Tea/Coffee and Welcome
10.30-11.15am - Damian Tyler: "Offa and the Making of Mercia"
11.15-12.00pm - Martin Ryan: 'Offa: The View from across the Channel'
12.00-1.00pm - Lunch plus displays and/or videos
1.00-1.45pm - Margaret Hill: 'Offa and the church'
1.45-2.30pm - David Stephenson: 'Offa: the View from the West'
2.30-3.00pm - Tea/Coffee
3.00-3.45pm - Ian Bapty: Developing new perspectives on Offa's Dyke
3.50-4.00pm - Final Discussion
Seminar Reports:
Copies of the seminar reports from 2007 - 2010 are available at Oswestry Library, Oswestry Museum, OBHAG meetings and from the email address above, priced at £1.50 plus postage and packaging if appropriate. The 2011 report will also be on sale at this year's seminar.
Old Oswestry Landscape and Archaeology Project is a sub-committee of Oswestry and Borders History and Archaeology group and is made up entirely of volunteers. Our first seminar in 2007 was developed as part of a partnership project run by Oswestry Borough Council, with the purpose of revitalising the area around Old Oswestry Hillfort. OOLAP developed from this project with the intention of continuing to raise the profile of Old Oswestry in continuing years. We are now completely independent and self funding.