LUDLOW LECTURES
Lectures during the years 2005-09 when David Lloyd ran this programme . . .
2005-2006 Victorian Ludlow and its Countryside
Lecture 1: The Victorian Age
Lecture 2: Country houses and their estates
Lecture 3: Agriculture
Lecture 4: Crafts, manufacturing and communications
Lecture 5: Ludlow in 1843
Lecture 6: Ludlow as a Market town
Lecture 7: The Borough Council
Lecture 8: The Great Lawsuit
Lecture 9: Parliamentary Representation
Lecture 10: Leisure
Lecture 11: Population and society
Lecture 12: The Church of England, Non-Conformity
Lecture 13: Education
Lecture 14: Poor law and outrelief; the Workhouse
Lecture 15: Crime and punishment
Lecture 16: The villages
Lecture 17: Ludlow in 1910
Lecture 18: Ludlow suburbs 1
Lecture 19: Ludlow suburbs 2
Lecture 20: Ludlow and the British Empire
2006-2007 Historic Towns and Cities
Lecture 1: Urban elements: an introduction to the course
Lecture 2: The first towns and cities
Lecture 3: Towns and cities of the classical world: Greece and Rome
Lecture 4: Roman towns in Britain
Lecture 5: The early Anglo-Saxons and their towns
Lecture 6: Later Anglo-Saxon and Danish towns
Lecture 7: The growth of towns under the Normans and afterwards
Lecture 8: The origins and early development of Ludlow, a composite town
Lecture 9: Life in medieval towns: Shrewsbury and other case studies
Lecture 10: Urban myths, legends and entertainments
Lecture 11: Renaissance cities of Europe
Lecture 12: Tudor and Stuart London, a case study
Lecture 13: Urban renaissance after 1660
Lecture 14: Urban planning, including Paris and Washington
Lecture 15: Small towns in early modern Europe
Lecture 16: Spas and seaside resorts
Lecture 17: Towns and cities of the industrial revolution
Lecture 18: Cities of the British Empire and across the world
Lecture 19: Urban problems, the Civic Gospel
Lecture 20: Towns and cities in the works of artists and writers
2007-2008 Great Houses of Shropshire
Lecture 1: Overview; the roles and functions of the Great Houses
Lecture 2: Houses before 1660
Lecture 3: Architectural history, 1660-1800
Lecture 4: Architectural history from 1800
Lecture 5: The gentry: the Actons of Aldenham
Lecture 6: The Great House as a power base - The Harleys of Brampton Bryan
Lecture 7: Empire and Industry - Clive of India and his descendants
Lecture 8: The Great House and the village
Lecture 9: The land around the Great House; Pairings of Country and Town Houses
Lecture 10: Leisure and pastimes
Lecture 11: Timber and Brick: the master mason from medieval to Stuart times, 1500-1689
Lecture 12: The architect from the 18th to the 20th centuries
Lecture 13: The Plan of the House and what it tells us about life styles
Lecture 14: Land around the Great House
Lecture 15: Lords of the Manor and their Ladies
Lecture 16: Life in Service
Lecture 17: Sons and Daughters of the Great House: Staying at Home and Going Forth
Lecture 18: Transport at the Great House: Horses to Cars
Lecture 19: The Rich Man in his castle, the Poor Man at his gate
Lecture 20: Challenges to the Great House tradition
2008-2009 Ludlow, the Marches, and the Wider World
Lecture 1: Portrait of the Marches
Lecture 2: Early days
Lecture 3: Shaping the Landscape
Lecture 4A: Medieval Life
Lecture 4B: Pilgrimage
Lecture 5A: Renaissance and Reformation
Lecture 5B: Tudor Time Line
Lecture 6A: Elizabeth and James
Lecture 6B: Council of the Marches
Lecture 7A: Civil War
Lecture 7B: Consuming passions
Lecture 8: Improvement
Lecture 9: Enlightenment
Lecture 10: Folklore
Lecture 11A: Prince Regent to Prince Consort
Lecture 11B: British Empire
Lecture 12A: The Greatness of Britain
Lecture 12B: Into the Modern World
Lecture 13: The Great War, 1914-18
Lecture 14: Flappers and filmstars
Lecture 15: Depression to Conflict
Lecture 16: Austerity to Boom
Lecture 17: the Spirit of Welshness
Lecture 18: the Sixties
Lecture 19: Wither Ludlow?
Lectures in the period 2010-17 under the title "History and Landscape of Ludlow and the Marches" . . .
2 Nov 2010 Roy Coles "Fair Ludlow Town Part 1"
9 Nov 2010 Prof Michael Rosenbaum "The deep structure of Shropshire" followed by "From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics"
16 Nov 2010 Prof Michael Rosenbaum "The building blocks of Shropshire: Rocks" followed by "Building the Blocks: Shropshire's history from a geological perspective"
23 Nov 2010 Prof Michael Rosenbaum "Evolution of the Shropshire landscape" followed by "Modification by ice"
30 Nov 2010 Dr Margaret Clark "David Lloyd and his place amongst historians"
7 Dec 2010 John Nash "The history and restoration of Lane's House"
1 Feb 2011 Roy Coles "Fair Ludlow Town Part 2"
8 Feb 2011 Julia Ionides "The Ludlow Guildhall"
15 Feb 2011 Andrew Pike "Castles of the Marches"
8 Mar 2011 Jean Brown "Ludlow's Victorian History"
15 Mar 2011 Michael Page "Keeping Time in Ludlow"
22 Mar 2011 Duncan James "The Buildings of Ludlow"
18 Oct 2011 Shaun Ward "St Laurence's Church - Change and Decay"
25 Oct 2011 Caroline Magnus "The story of Stokesay Court"
1 Nov 2011 Colin Richards "Post-war development of Ludlow"
8 Nov 2011 Sylvia Watts "Almshouses of Shropshire"
15 Nov 2011 Olwen Hughes "Ludlow as seen through the artists eye"
22 Nov 2011 John Farley & Peter Carty "Tales from Wenlock Edge"
31 Jan 2012 Glyn Barratt "Titterstone Clee – A Hill through Time"
7 Feb 2012 Michael Page & Tim Booth "The Mills of Ludlow – medieval & later"
14 Feb 2012 Andrew Wigley "The History & Archaeology of Ludlow's Landscape"
28 Feb 2012 Karen & Andy Johnson (Logaston Press) "A Marches Miscellany – Impressions of its history & landscape formed while publishing Marches authors"
6 Mar 2012 Liz Pitman "Pigsties & Paradise (Lady Travellers in Wales 1795-1860)"
13 Mar 2012 Jane Allsopp "The Ludlow Road. The local landscape of A.E. Housmans poetry"
16 October 2012 Roy Coles "Fair Ludlow Town continued..."
23 October 2012 Michael Rosenbaum "Creation of the Landscape – the classic view from Whitcliffe"
30 October 2012
Tony Pollard "The Talbots – Shropshire Politics/Shropshire during the Wars of the Roses"
6 November 2012
Alf Jenkins "Industrial & Social History of the Clee Hills"
13 November 2012
Clive Richardson, Anne Gray & Gareth Owen "Ludlow Men in 1st World War – their stories with poems & songs"
20 November 2012
Jonathan Wood "Shropshire's Anglo-Saxon Churches"
Tuesday 5th February 2013
The railway through Ludlow
Michael Rosenbaum
Tuesday 12th February 2013
Thomas Telford's Shropshire Legacy/Ludlow through Time
Dorothy Nicolle
Tuesday 19th February 2013
Five Centuries of Mortimer Forest – Tudors to the Present
David Lovelace
Tuesday 26th February 2013
Constructive Conservation – the Marches Historic Environment
John Yates
Tuesday 5th March 2013
South Shropshire Churches since the Reformation
Tim Bridges
Tuesday 12th March 2013
The Story of Church Stretton
Tony Crowe
Tuesday 15th October 2013
The railway through Ludlow ..... and Beyond
Michael Rosenbaum
Tuesday 22nd October 2013
Why didn't you fight in the Great War Daddy? - South Shropshire 1914-18
Derek Beattie
Tuesday 29th October 2013
Recreation and Husbandry - historic deer parks in Shropshire
Sandra Morris
Tuesday 5th November 2013
William Foxe of Ludford - a 16thC recusant philanthropist
Jonathan Moore
Tuesday 12th November 2013
Civil War in the Marches
John Barratt
Tuesday 19th November 2013
Sex and the Single Pearl
Mike Kelly
Tuesday 18th February 2014
The Blue Plaques of Ludlow
John Nash
Tuesday 25th February 2014
Conserving the built environment around South Shropshire
Stephen Treasure
Tuesday 4th March 2014
Finds from the Fields; a look at the archaeological treasures from South Shropshire and beyond
Peter Reavill
Tuesday 11th March 2014
Aspects of the Stiperstones
A team from the Stiperstones and Corndon Landscape Partnership
Tuesday 18th March 2014
The Whitsun Riots of 1605: Catholic Commotion in Herefordshire & Monmouthshire
Wendy Brogden
Tuesday 25th March 2014
Conserving the metaliferous mining heritage of South Shropshire
Colin Richards
Tuesday 21st October 2014
Shaping the Ludlow Landscape – a Ludlow Walk
Michael Rosenbaum
Tuesday 28th October 2014
1000 years of building with stone in Herefordshire & Worcestershire
Kate Andrew
Tuesday 4th November 2014
Investigating the Leominster Canal: a virtual excursion
Gerry Calderbank
Tuesday 11th November 2014
Saints and Sinners: a Ludlow perspective
Michael Tavinor
Tuesday 18th November 2014
Hampton Court, Herefordshire: the ups and downs of a Border landscape
Catherine Beale
Tuesday 25th November 2014
Writers' Shropshire
Gorden Dickins
Tuesday 10th February 2015
More about Ludlow
Roy Coles
Tuesday 17th February 2015
Offa's Dyke
Paul Belford
Tuesday 24th February 2015
Berrington Hall – its History & Architecture
Frank Ryding
Tuesday 3rd March 2015
“I've got a bit of a Blighty One” - Stokesay Court's role as a Hospital in World War 1,
1915-1918
Caroline Magnus
Tuesday 10th March 2015
The Telford Giant and the Little People - a Perspective on the Development of Telford
Allan Frost
Tuesday 17th March 2015
The Ceramics of Ironbridge Gorge – the Development & Influence of a Shropshire
Industry
Kate Cadman
Tuesday 20th October 2015
The Story of Ludlow Workhouse
John Nash
Tuesday 27th October 2015
From Deerparks to Landscape Parks: designed landscapes of Shropshire
Sandra Morris
Tuesday 3rd November 2015
How the canal almost came to Ludlow
Michael Rosenbaum
Tuesday 10th Novemberh 2015
Photographing the Landscape & Natural World of Shropshire – a most rare vision
Mark Sisson
Tuesday 17th November 2015
William Penny Brooks and the Wenlock Olympian Games
Catherine Beale
Tuesday 24th November 2015
Traditional Shropshire Agriculture in Pictures – the past 200 years
Colin Richards
Tuesday 2nd February 2016
The Reader's House, Ludlow
Michael Page
Tuesday 9th February 2016
Medieval New Towms of the Welsh Marches and their Surprising Context
Peter Cornah
Tuesday 16th February 2016
The Singular Stiperstones – Landscape, Literature and History
Tom Wall
Tuesday 23rd February 2016
The Ludlow Palmers' Guild
Hugh Wood
Tuesday 1st March 2016
“Black by day, Red by night” - an introduction to the Landscape of the Black Country – 1700-1950
David Eveleigh
Tuesday 8th March 2016
A Walk to the Paradise Garden: Gardens of the Middle Marches
Jane Allsop
Tuesday 25 October 2016
How the Other Half Lived – Ludlow's Working Classes 1850-1960
Derek Beattie
Tuesday 1 November 2016
On the Trail of the Mortimers
Philip Hume
Tuesday 8 November 2016
Shropshire – A Romantic View
Gordon Dickins
Tuesday 15 November 2016
“They Shall Grow Not Old” - The Ludlow men who were killed in the 2nd World War (with poetry & song)
Clive Richardson
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Churches of Shropshire – an Architectural Tour
Andrew Pike
Tuesday 29 November 2016
Woodland Past & Woodland Future - the Marches from the last glaciation to current challenges
Andrew Allott
Tuesday 7 February 2017
“Old Bill” of World War I & his creator Bruce Bairnsfather - the Ludlow connections
Keith Pybus
Tuesday 14 February 2017
The Story of Bishop’s Castle
David Preshous
Tuesday 21 February 2017
The discovery of Thomas Hakluyt’s houses (Ludlow) & other timber-framed buildings in the Marches
Duncan James
Tuesday 28 February 2017
Thomas Andrew Knight of Downton Castle & his contribution to horticulture
Murray Mylechreest
Tuesday 7 March 2017
Archeology & Artefacts of Ludlow
Leon Bracelin
Tuesday 14 March 2017
Sir Henry Sidney & the Ludlow Castle Heraldic Roll
Hugh Wood & Rosalind Caird
Tuesday 24 October 2017
The Silurian
Michael Rosenbaum
Tuesday 31 October 2017
Cleobury Mortimer 100 years ago and its famous soldier-author
Mark Baldwin
Tuesday 7 November 2017
Ancestor of Skyscrapers: the Story of Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings
Joanna Layton
Tuesday 14 November 2017
Dorstone Hill, Herefordshire: a Neolithic Landscape
Keith Ray
Tuesday 21 November 2017
From the “ Most Extraordinary District in the World” to a very Poor Fag End of it: Archeology at the Ironbridge Gorge Shane Kelleher
Tuesday 28 November 2017
Ludlow’s Georgian Elegance
Jonathan Wood
Tuesday 30 January 2018
The Renaissance of Ludlow – from post-war decline to recognition as an international heritage centre
Colin Richards
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Medieval Shrewsbury and its three-dimensional archeological landscape
Nigel Baker
Tuesday 13 February 2018
A Tale of Two Rivers – the East and West Onny
David Preshous
Tuesday 20 February 2018
Hand in Glove: the Glove Industry of Ludlow, 1600-1830
Sandra Morris
Tuesday 27 February 2018
Bewdley, a Marches river port, and its connection with Prince Arthur
Richard Perrin
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Marcher Castles in Transition – from War to Peace - from Military Might to Residential Splendour 1250-1350
Neil Guy
Tuesday 9 October 2018
The Elan Valley Aqueduct - Ludlow’s biggest construction project
Michael Rosenbaum
Tuesday 16 October 2018
The Teme in Trust
Tony Bostock
Tuesday 23 October 2018
St Laurence’s Ludlow: 800 years of change
Shaun Ward
Tuesday 30 October 2018
Power & Stone - the lasting effect of ecclesiastical secular & Templar architecture on the Shropshire & Herefordshire landscape
Geoffrey Adams
Tuesday 6 November 2018
The Broad Gate and Ludlow’s defences
Michael Page
Tuesday 13 November 2018
Remembrance - internationally, nationally and locally
Clive Richardson
Tuesday 22 October 2019
Changing Leisure Patterns in Ludlow, 1850-1950
Derek Beattie
Tuesday 29 October 2019
Croft Castle’s Fishpool Valley. Excavations & Investigations - 2017 to 2019
Stephen Wass
Tuesday 5 November 2019
The Sword & the Ring: how the Mortimers of Wigmore acquired control of the Central Marches
Philip Hume
Tuesday 12 November 2019
Late Medieval Woodwork in St Laurence’s Church
Peter White
Tuesday 19 November 2019
Exploring the Place-Names of Southern Shropshire
John Baker and Jayne Carroll
Tuesday 26 November 2019
Walking the Pipe: the Elan Valley Aqueduct in words and song
Kate Green and Michael Rosenbaum accompanied by musicians Faith Brackenbury and John Neilson
Tuesday 4 February 2020
The Knights of Downton Castle. In pursuit of their passions 1700-1850.
Barney Rolf-Smith
Tuesday 11 February 2020
Mineral, Vegetable and Animal - the making of the Marches Landscapes
Andrew Allott
Tuesday 18 February 2020
Rediscovering elusive mammals of the Marches
Stuart Edmonds
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Ludlow Memories - Life & Times of a Market Town. Photographs from Victorian Era to modern times.
Colin Richards
Tuesday 3 March 2020
Pitchford Hall: “The most splendid black-and-white Building in Shropshire” (Pevsner)
Duncan James
Tuesday 10 March 2020
The Welsh Invasions of Shropshire in the 12th and 13th centuries
David Stephenson
Tuesday 26 October 2021
Rescuing ruins in the Marches - the work of the Landmark Trust
Alastair Dick-Cleland
Tuesday 2 November 2021
The Ludlow middle classes at play, 1800-1950
Derek Beattie
Tuesday 9 November 2021
Who were the Knights Templar? The beginning and end of a religious fighting order, and their presence in the Southern Marches
Gil McHattie
Tuesday 16 November 2021
Recent research into Ribbesford House, Bewdley. Its role in the Marches and the power of the Mortimers
Tim Cornah
Tuesday 23 November 2021
“The King’s Writ does not run here.” The Welsh Marcher Lordships
Philip Hume
Tuesday 30 November 2021
The Angel Roof in St. Laurence’s Church, Ludlow, in relation to others in the Marches
Robert Walker
Tuesday 1 February 2022
Decorative Ludlow - a journey through time, looking at the Ornamentation on Buildings Colin Richards
Tuesday 8 February 2022
Stepping Stones in the Landscape - Recovering Nature in the Shropshire Hills
Peter Carty
Tuesday 15 February 2022
Kilpeck Church and Herefordshire Romanesque Architecture
Brian Anderson
Tuesday 22 February 2022
The story of the SOE (Special Operations Executive) in Shropshire and Herefordshire
Bernard 0’Connor
Tuesday 1 March 2022
Recent excavations, survey and repair work at Nordy Bank Hill Fort, Clee Liberty
Matt White, Chris Matthews
Tuesday 8 March 2022
The Broad Gate (Ludlow) from the early 1700s to today
Valerie Thomas
Tuesday 25 October 2022
Mortimer Forest: Its History, Industries & Wildlife
Alan Reid & Colin Richards
Tuesday 1 November 2022
"A Mortimer! A Mortimer!” The Mortimers in battle
Philip Hume
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Downton Gorge: That Matchless Valley
Tom Wall
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Archaeology of the early steam engines in Ironbridge Gorge
Michael Nevell
Tuesday 22 November 2022
The Medieval Stained Glass at Ludlow in the context of the Marches
Robert Walker
Tuesday 29 November 2022
Ludlow Castle: its History and Archaeology
Leon Bracelin
Tuesday 31 January 2023
The Making of the Shropshire Landscape; how interpretations (or things) have changed since 1972
Trevor Rowley
Tuesday 7 February 2023
The Shropshire Museums’ Geology collection: how it evolved and why does it matter?
Michael Rosenbaum
Tuesday 14 February 2023
Sir John Oldcastle of Herefordshire: the origins of Falstaff
Andrew Johnson
Tuesday 21 February 2023
Leper Hospital to Gentry Mansion: Ludford House, the building & its place in Ludlow History
Duncan James
Tuesday 28 February 2023
Archery and Archers in the Marches, from Robin Hood to the Archers of Teme
Mark North
Tuesday 7 March 2023
Wildlife and Wonder from the landscape of the Shropshire Borders
Andrew Fusek Peters
Tuesday 24 October 2023
The Atlantic Salmon in the River Severn & its tributaries, including the Teme
Chris Bainger
Tuesday 31 October 2023
Oswestry, the forgotten castle! Its importance in the Northern Welsh March
Roger Cooper
Tuesday 7 November 2023
Treasure Tales & Hidden Hoards: the Herefordshire Viking Hoard
Peter Reavill
Tuesday 14 November 2023
Industrial Ludlow - an historical walk around Lower Corve Street
Mike Beazley
Tuesday 21 November 2023
It’s the Mortimers wot won it: the Wars of the Roses, the Mortimers & Ludlow
Philip Hume
Tuesday 28 November 2023
On the fringes or at the heart of it? The Roman period in the Central Marches
Roger White