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The Study of Place-Nameswith Dr David Parsonsin The Old Court, Sutton Hoo (map)
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10.00 | Coffee on arrival | ||
10.15 | Language and place-names in early Britain. | ||
11.15 | Coffee | ||
11.45 | Place-names and Anglo-Saxon history. | ||
12.45 | Lunch break | ||
14:00 | Vikings! | ||
15:00 | Tea break | ||
15:15 | Names in a changing landscape. | ||
16:15 | Close |
David Parsons was, until recently, Director of the Institute for Name-Studies at the University of Nottingham, and is now Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Research. He has published books and articles on language, inscriptions and names in early Britain and is currently working on a monograph studying linguistics interactions in the place-names of various parts of England.
Clark, Cecily, ‘Chapter 7. Onomastics’, in R. M Hogg (ed.), The Cambridge History of the English Language: I. The Beginnings to 1066 (Cambridge 1992)
In addition there are the three standard dictionaries, the first two of which contain useful general introductions to the subject:
Ekwall, Eilert, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names, 4th edn (Oxford 1960)
Mills, A. D., Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford 1991) [and subsumed in various OUP names collections since]
Watts, Victor, The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names (Cambridge 2004)
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4 Hilly Fields,
Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 4DX
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