Month: February 2025

Seminar // Prof. Carl Griffin: ‘Radically rethinking enclosure: margins, making peasants, and the property of the poor’ // 26th Feb ’25, 1pm

Posted on by john.morgan

The Historical and Cultural Geography Research Group in the School of Geographical Sciences is hosting a seminar with Prof Carl Griffin (Sussex) on Weds 26 Feb at 1pm.

Carl is a historical geographer, and will be giving a paper titled ‘Radically rethinking enclosure: margins, making peasants, and the property of the poor‘.

You are all very welcome to join us on Weds 26 February, from 1pm to 2pm in the Arts Complex B59 (17 Woodland Road).

Surveyors at work on an enclosure survey in Henlow, Bedfordshire. Watercolour on parchment.
Surveyors working on an enclosure survey. Detail from “Henlow in the County of Bedford,” by John Goodman Maxwell, c.1798, from Matthew H. Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley (eds), The History of Cartography, Volume 4: Cartography in the European Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press), p. 1173.