WAS Manchester a medieval city? Was it a Roman settlement? Who lived here before the Romans?
Friday 3 June 2016
All these questions and more will be answered in a fascinating talk on the origins of Greater Manchester at the University of Salford on June 8 – part of the annual Manchester Histories Festival.
The University’s Centre for Applied Archaeology is running four events for Manchester Histories
- a tour of Angel Meadow, Saturday June 4;
- a seminar in the Peel Building, Peel Campus on Wednesday 8th on Manchester’s origins
- an evening lecture on New Bailey Prison in Salford, also on the 8th
- and a tour of Manchester’s archaeology on Friday 10th.
Dr Mike Nevell, the Centre’s head, says many people are unaware of how far the city’s history goes back: “It’s not just industrial housing and mills, our history goes back to medieval halls to Roman forts and roads, and prehistoric activities.
“New archaeology material is revealing for the first time the late prehistoric communities occupying the landscape around Manchester – it was a well-used landscape before the Romans arrive.
“Our ideas about the size and role of Roman Manchester have been changed by 15 years of digging. The civilian settlement or vicus is twice the size we thought it was in the 1970s and more sophisticated, with one of the few temples known from a vicus in northern Britain.
“For the medieval city we are now rediscovering the 12th century site of Manchester Castle and only in the last 10 years have we recognised that the buildings of Chetham’s College are one of the finest surviving 15th century collegiate or priests’ college complexes from medieval England.
So how is this welter of ‘new’ history changing our ideas about our city? Find out more at the event on Wednesday 8 June, 1pm - 4pm
Download this event to your calendar
Venue
LG20 Peel Building
Peel Building University of Salford Crescent Salford, M54NW
Free but booking required
Tickets 0161 295 6286
http://www.manchesterhistoriesfestival.org.uk/whatson/
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