Talks and Events
Claire is an experienced public speaker and has worked as a Public Speaking Coach in the past. She has delivered lectures at academic conferences, local history meetings, museums, schools, colleges and teacher training events. A selection of Claire’s most recent and upcoming talks can be found below.
Please get in touch if you would like Claire to come and speak at your event. She can offer talks on subjects including the the social and cultural impact of the Black Death, the Great Revolt (1381) and medieval rebellions, medieval women, work and trade in the Middle Ages, pre-Reformation popular piety and medieval local history. Claire is also the co-organiser for the ‘What is Medieval’? online seminar series.
Upcoming Talks & Events
2024
Title TBC, PTI New History Teacher Day, 9th November.
Previous Talks & Events
2024
‘The Medieval Corpus Christi Guilds of Lincolnshire’, Louth Naturalists’ Antiquarian and Literary Society.
‘Power in the Parish? The Role of Women in England’s Parish Guilds’, Shifting Paradigms: Women, Rhetoric, and Power, c.700-c.1300, London Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame.
‘Definitions of Disaster in Medieval Europe: A Round Table Discussion’, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.
2023
‘A Dance with Death: Popular Piety in the Age of Plague’, Queen’s University Medieval Seminar Series.
‘Chronicling Climate Change: Contemporary Understandings of Late Medieval Natural Disasters’, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.
2022
‘Lincolnshire’s Medieval Guilds’, Spirit of Sutterby Online Lecture (via Zoom).
‘The Battle of Lewes’, South Downs National Park Association.
‘Late Medieval Parish Guilds and Patterns of Popular Piety in Lincolnshire’, Pfaff at Fifty, University of Nottingham.
‘Popular Piety and the Plague’, Dragen Lab, University of Waterloo (Canada).
‘Beating the Bounds!’ A Being Human Cafe as part of the Being Human Festival, 18th November 2022.
‘The Corpus Christi Guilds of Medieval Lincolnshire’, Louth Naturalists’ Antiquarian and Literary Society Online Lecture.
2021
‘Living on a Prayer? Parish Guilds in the Middle Ages’, The Society for Church Archaeology.
‘Understanding Medieval Rebellions’, Prince’s Teaching Institute New History Teacher Day.
‘Bradwell Priory: The Life and Times of a Medieval Institution’, Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre.
‘Publishing and Impact in the Humanities: What’s the Story?’ PhD and ECR online workshop with the University of Reading and Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
‘How to get your Local History Research out there!’ PhD and ECR online workshop with the British Association for Local History.
‘The Pre-Reformation Parish: What did Ordinary People Believe in the Middle Ages?’ Be Bolder History Teacher CPD webinar.
‘Local History: Approaches to the National Narrative from the Local Viewpoint’ Historical Association webinar.
‘Building St James's Spire: Louth's Guilds and Popular Piety in the Later Middle Ages’, Historical Association Virtual Branch lecture.
‘Uncovering your Medieval Local History’ BALH online workshop.
‘Louth’s Parish Guilds and the Building of St James’s Spire’, Louth Naturalists’, Antiquarian & Literary Society Zoom lecture.
‘Exploring Everyday Life and Belief in Late Medieval England’, University of Bedfordshire History PGCE Webinar.
‘Were the Peasants really Revolting? The Great Revolt of 1381 and its Aftermath’, Historic-All webinar.
2020
‘Public Engagement and Academic Impact’, Life beyond the PhD (online conference), History Lab+.
‘Exploring Everyday Life and Belief in Late Medieval England’, University of Cambridge History PGCE Webinar.
‘Everyday Life and Belief in the Age of the Black Death’, Be Bolder History Teacher CPD Webinar.
‘The Black Death: Social and Cultural Developments 1348-1500’, Historical Association Webinar.
’The Normans in Britain: Conquest & Settlement 1066-1087’, Historical Association Webinar.
2019
‘Bridging the Divide: Parish Guilds and Local Communities in the Wars of the Roses’, Lincolnshire in the Wars of the Roses, Lincoln Record Society.
‘Public Engagement: What, Why and How?’, Life Beyond the PhD, Cumberland Lodge.
‘Pre-Modern Protest and Revolting Peasants?!’, New History Teacher Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute.
‘Digitising the Dissolution: The Case of Chertsey Abbey’, Chertsey Museum.
‘Louth’s Parish Guilds and the Building of St James’s Spire: Popular Piety in Late Medieval Lincolnshire’, School of Humanities Research Seminar, Bishop Grosseteste University.
2018
‘Beyond the Ballot: The Women’s Suffrage Campaign’, Ealing Historical Association.
‘Parish Festivals before the Reformation’, Customs in Common, University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education Day School.
‘Women’s Rights and Feminist Facts: A 1918 Classroom’, London Transport Museum Late Debate: Women of the Future.
‘Transport in the Women’s Suffrage Movement’, Public & Commercial Services Union, Department for Transport.
‘For the Good of the Soul: Memory and Remembrance in Parish Guilds’, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.
2017
‘Reforming Local Parochial Practice: Louth, its Parish Guilds and the Lincolnshire Rising’, Reformation on the Record, The National Archives.
‘Brotherhood or Otherhood? Issues of Inclusion and Exclusion in Lincolnshire’s Late Medieval Guilds’, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.
‘A Tale of Two Guilds: Rivals, Associates or Co-Conspirators?’ Late Medieval Seminar, Institute of Historical Research.
2016
'Magna Carta: 1215-2015', Epsom & Ewell History & Archaeology Society.
'From Parochial Association to Political Players: The Holy Trinity Guild in Fifteenth Century Louth, Lincolnshire', The Fifteenth Century Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London.
2015
'Magna Carta through Time', Guildford Archaeology & Local History Group.