Lancashire Place Name Survey annual lecture and AGM
We are happy to announce the date of the next Lancashire Place Names Survey annual general meeting has been set for 7pm Wednesday 19 October 2022 and will be directly followed by the annual lecture.
The event will be hosted virtually via Zoom, and the web link will be made available via our website ahead of the meeting.
In preparation for the AGM the committee have drafted a new constitution that is appropriate to a small organisation. The draft of the new constitution will be circulated via email to all members ahead of the AGM on 19 October for your review before the membership are asked to cast their vote on its endorsement.
This year’s lecture will be presented by Dr Christopher Donaldson and Dr James Butler of Lancaster University who will share with us some of their findings from a fascinating project that explored the influence of the Ordnance Survey on the Lake District’s ‘name-scape’ focused on the parish of Grasmere as part of a broader digitisation project of the extant Name Books.
We are looking forward to seeing as many of the LPNS membership at the event, albeit virtually, and experience Grasmere’s landscape and a rare insight into Victorian cartographic methods through the OS Name Books brought to light by an important project and what promises to be a captivating talk.
The Influence of the Ordnance Survey on the Lake District’s ‘Name-scape’
How did the names we find on Ordnance Survey (OS) maps get there? Who was it who chose those names? Who decided how they should be spelled? What do those names reveal about the history of the places they describe? What, by the same token, do those names conceal? In this talk, we’ll delve into these and other questions by reporting on work completed as part of a research project at Lancaster University: ‘Envisaging Landscapes and Naming Places: the Lake District before the Map’.
This project has taken an important first step towards the complete digitisation of the OS Name Books for Cumberland and Westmorland by completing a proof-of-concept case study focused on the Name Books for the parish of Grasmere. In our talk, we shall explain how this case study was conceived and conducted, and we shall consider the extent to which Victorian developments and priorities (as well as errors in the OS’s cataloguing process) influenced the maps through which people have experienced the Lake District for more than 150 years. We shall also discuss the choice of authorities for the names listed in the OS Name Books, and we shall assess what those choices reveal about Victorian society in and around Grasmere.
We are happy to announce the date of the next Lancashire Place Names Survey annual general meeting has been set for 7pm Wednesday 19 October 2022 and will be directly followed by the annual lecture.
The event will be hosted virtually via Zoom, and the web link will be made available via our website ahead of the meeting.
In preparation for the AGM the committee have drafted a new constitution that is appropriate to a small organisation. The draft of the new constitution will be circulated via email to all members ahead of the AGM on 19 October for your review before the membership are asked to cast their vote on its endorsement.
This year’s lecture will be presented by Dr Christopher Donaldson and Dr James Butler of Lancaster University who will share with us some of their findings from a fascinating project that explored the influence of the Ordnance Survey on the Lake District’s ‘name-scape’ focused on the parish of Grasmere as part of a broader digitisation project of the extant Name Books.
We are looking forward to seeing as many of the LPNS membership at the event, albeit virtually, and experience Grasmere’s landscape and a rare insight into Victorian cartographic methods through the OS Name Books brought to light by an important project and what promises to be a captivating talk.
The Influence of the Ordnance Survey on the Lake District’s ‘Name-scape’
How did the names we find on Ordnance Survey (OS) maps get there? Who was it who chose those names? Who decided how they should be spelled? What do those names reveal about the history of the places they describe? What, by the same token, do those names conceal? In this talk, we’ll delve into these and other questions by reporting on work completed as part of a research project at Lancaster University: ‘Envisaging Landscapes and Naming Places: the Lake District before the Map’.
This project has taken an important first step towards the complete digitisation of the OS Name Books for Cumberland and Westmorland by completing a proof-of-concept case study focused on the Name Books for the parish of Grasmere. In our talk, we shall explain how this case study was conceived and conducted, and we shall consider the extent to which Victorian developments and priorities (as well as errors in the OS’s cataloguing process) influenced the maps through which people have experienced the Lake District for more than 150 years. We shall also discuss the choice of authorities for the names listed in the OS Name Books, and we shall assess what those choices reveal about Victorian society in and around Grasmere.
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