‘The greatest mere village in England’:
Networks, Religion and Politics in early modern Manchester

Timetable
(provisional, 3 March 2005)
9.30 Coffee
Registration
10.00 Introduction (Roey Sweet)
10.15

Networks, Politics and Religion (chair: Prof Frank O'Gorman)
Alan Crosby: Manchester and its impact upon the regional and local road network 1628-1648
Craig Horner: Networks, Religion and Politics: The Diary of Edmund Harrold, a Manchester wigmaker, fl. 1712-5
Jon Stobart: Manchester and its region: networks and boundaries in the eighteenth century
11.45 Coffee
12.00

Networks, Religion and Politics in Elizabethan Manchester (chair:Prof Michael Mullett)
Stephen Bowd: John Dee and Spatial Ideology in Reformation Manchester
Chris Hunwick: Who shall reform the reformers? Corruption in the Elizabethan Collegiate Church of Manchester
1.00 Lunch
Served in the Friends’ Meeting House
2.00

Papists and Presbyterians (chair: Prof Ann Hughes)
Geoff Baker: Popery, Politics and Plotting: The 1694 Jacobite Trials at Manchester
Catherine Nunn: Church or Chapel? Nonconformity in late-17th century Manchester
3.00 Coffee
3.15

Byrom's Manchester (chair: Hannah Barker)
Timothy Underhill: John Byrom and religious and political networks in eighteenth-century Manchester
Kazuhiko Kondo: The Dreadful Mob at Manchester 1715
James Moore: Culture, Politics and the Idea of Progress: the ‘Decline and Fall’ of Georgian Manchester?
4.45 Concluding remarks (Robert Poole)
5.00 Disperse