EARL LECTURE

Endowed by Jack Leighton of Newcastle-under-Lyme, a tax inspector with a keen interest in the history of North Staffordshire (especially ceramics), and named after his wife, the Lecture is held every two years (next in October 2011) and is intended to encourage prominent historians who have not yet worked on the history of Staffordshire to turn their attention to the county.

First delivered in 1961, it has been given by a series of nationally-important historians and is published in the  journal Staffordshire Studies.

 

The 2011 Earl lecture will be given by Professor David Howell of the University of York

 

A SHEIK IN STAFFORDSHIRE:

      OSWALD MOSLEY AND THE  LABOUR PARTY

 

MONDAY 10 OCTOBER 2011

at 8 pm

 

Lecture Theatre (CBA0.061 ground floor)

Chancellor’s Building

Keele University

 

25th (2009)

Ralph Houlbrooke                   Politics and Personalities in Mid Tudor Staffordshire

24th (2007)

Paul Everson                          ‘A setting of cheap thrills and false emotions’?:  archaeology, parks and
                                             gardens in Staffordshire

23rd (2005)

Pamela Sambrook                  Servants, Family and Business: Domestic Service in Staffordshire in 1851

22nd (2003)

John Bourne                           How Staffordshire won the Great War

21st (2001)

Christopher Dyer                    The urbanizing of Staffordshire: the first phases

20th (1999)

David Cannadine                    Josiah Wedgwood and the History of Parliament

19th (1997)

David Hey                               The distinctive surnames of Staffordshire

18th (1995)

Robert Bartlett                        The miracles of St Modwenna of Burton

17th (1993) 

Margaret Spufford                    Poverty Portrayed:  Gregory King and Eccleshall in the 1690s

16th (1991)

W. A. Speck                            Staffordshire in the reign of Queen Anne

15th (1989)

Jean Birrell                              The Forest and the Chase in medieval Staffordshire

14th (1987)

Christopher Taylor                   Medieval settlement in Staffordshire

13th (1984)

Donald Greene                        Samuel Johnson’s Staffordshire

12th (1983)

Margaret Gelling                     Some thoughts on Staffordshire place-names

11th (1981)

Eric Richards                          The uses of aristocracy:  the Sutherlands and Staffordshire in the           
                                             nineteenth century

10th (1979)

Peter Heath                            Staffordshire towns and the Reformation 

9th (1977)

Doug Hay                               Popular Jacobitism in eighteenth-century Staffordshire

8th (1976)

Michael Greenslade                 The Staffordshire historians

 7th  (1973)

David Palliser                          A thousand years of Staffordshire: man and landscape, 913–1973

6th (1971)

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner               Some aspects of Staffordshire architecture

5th (1969)

Rodney Hilton                         Lord and peasant in Staffordshire in the middle ages

4th (1967)

Joan Thirsk                             Horn and thorn in Staffordshire: the economy of a pastoral county

3rd (1965)

D.H. Pennington                     County and Country:  Staffordshire in Civil War politics, 1640-1644

2nd (1963)

Neil McKendrick                      Josiah Wedgwood and the Potteries:   the Industrial Revolution in microcosm

1st (1961)

J.W. Blake                              The Sneyds of Keele