W.G. HOSKINS LECTURES
The first annual lecture, sponsored by the Friends, was given on May 19th 1990. In answer to a request that the series of lectures be named after him, Professor Hoskins replied as follows:
Stoke Canon, near Exeter, 1st August 1989.
Dear Dr Fox, Thank you very much for your letter. I am honoured to hear of the proposal to call the lecture after me. Please forgive the short note, but I have been rather ill lately. Yours sincerely, W.G. Hoskins.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2023.
‘By 1350….nearly every line had been drawn’ – New Light on Devon’s Landscape History, 70 years after Hoskins’s Devon presented by Professor Sam Turner.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2022.
‘The Local politics of Civil-War Military Welfare’ presented by Professor Andrew Hopper.
| There were no Hoskins lectures in 2020 or 2021 due to the imposition of restrictions on social gatherings as a result of the Covid epidemic |
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2019.
‘Kingdom, Civitas and County: The Evolution of Territorial Identity in the English Landscape’ presented by Professor Stephen Rippon.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2018.
‘Wharram Percy and its Landscape Contents’ presented by Dr Stuart Wrathmell.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2017.
‘From Tents to Townhouses: The Viking Great Army and the Origins of the Borough of Torksey’ presented by Professor Dawn Hadley.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2016.
‘Trees and Topography: Depictions of individual trees in the 18th and 19th centuries’ presented by Professor Charles Watkins.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2015.
‘The power of pits: New evidence for rural settlements from excavations in eastern England’ presented by Professor Carenza Lewis.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2014.
‘Who made the medieval Landscape’ presented by Professor Chris Dyer.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2013.
‘The Patrician Landscape 1750-185o’ presented by Doctor Richard Gaunt.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2012.
‘Medieval Open Fields and their Origins’ presented by Doctor Susan Oosthuizen.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2011.
‘Custom and Common Rights: the management of common land in England and Wales since the Middle Ages’ presented by Doctor Angus Winchester.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2010.
‘The English Story’ presented by Doctor Michael Wood.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2009.
‘Exploring Anglo-Saxon Farms’ presented by Doctor Rosamund Faith.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2008.
The nineteenth Hoskins lecture presented by Doctor Trevor Rowley.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2007.
‘Woodlands in myth and Legend’ presented by Doctor Della Hooke.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2006.
‘Place-names and Landscapes’ presented by Doctor Margaret Gelling.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2005.
‘Midland Peasants: how farming made the medieval landscape’ presented by Doctor Tom Williamson.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2004.
‘Differentiating the English: ethnicity and provincial association to c.1750’ presented by Professor Charles Phythian-Adams.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2003.
‘Paganism, folklore and historians: a witches’ brew’ presented by Professor Ronald Hutton.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2002.
‘The Perception of the Landscape in Early Modern England’ presented by Professor Sir Keith Thomas.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2001.
‘The church in the early English landscape: old problems new approaches’ presented by Doctor John Blair.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 2000.
‘Woodland history in Hoskins’ day and now’ presented by Oliver Rackham.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 1999.
‘Commons and the livelihoods associated with them’ presented by Alan Everitt.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 1998.
‘Learning to see’ presented by Joan Thirsk.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 1997.
‘The remaking of the English landscape: An essay’ presented by Professor John Sheail.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 1996.
‘Over the hedge or chance in research’ presented by Maurice Beresford.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 1995.
‘The Crown and the people of the provinces under the Tudors and the Stuarts’ presented by Gordon Forster.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 1994.
‘W. G. Hoskins and the Great Rebuilding of England’ presented by Doctor Malcolm Airs.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 1993.
‘Compassionate Marriage: Some Oral History Evidence’ presented by Doctor Elizabeth Roberts.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 1992.
‘Towns and villages in medieval England’ presented by Professor David Palliser.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 1991.
‘Family history and local history’ presented by Doctor David Hey.
The W.G Hoskins Lecture 1990.
‘Medieval Settlement Patterns: Problems and Possibilities’ presented by Christopher Taylor.