Symposium on Merchants and Traders in the Wash

Post Date: 15/08/2022

Join us for our first symposium since the pandemic, there is a varied program of speakers and lunch is included.

Fenland Heritage Network/Spalding Gentlemen’s Society Symposium

Merchants and Traders: medieval and early modern trade in the Wash

15th October 2022

South Holland Centre, Spalding

P R O G R A M M E

Key-Note Speaker:Alison Fairman (Boston Hanse)

Links with Europe – the Boston Hanse Group.

Morning Session (10:00 – 12:45):

Chair:Dr Dustin Frazier Wood

1. The Rise and Fall of Medieval Boston

Professor Stephen Rigby

2. Kings Lynn and the German Hanse

Dr Paul Richards

3. Merchants and Port Books in Jacobean Kings Lynn

Dr Alan Metters

<< LUNCH (12:45 – 14:00) – Maritime Wash Exhibition >>

Afternoon Session (14:00 – 16:00):

Chair:Tom Grimes

4. East Anglian Women and Trade in the Fifteenth Century

Dr Dustin Frazier Wood

5. Medieval Fenland Merchants: John Masse and Nicholas Alwyn

Dr Michael Gilbert

Closing Remarks:

Petronella Keeling

Chair, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society