Conferences, Talks, Tours and Exhibitions
2022 – 2023
“Back-to-back houses and their communities in 21st century Leeds.” [exhibition]. (Compton Centre Library, Leeds Central Library, and Leeds City Museum, Leeds. 10 September 2022 – 22 April 2023) – This is a new and updated exhibition that disseminates the PhD research findings to participants, the local community, and the wider Leeds community.
2022
“Back-to-back houses and their communities in 21st century Leeds.” [exhibition]. (My neighbourhood, my city, my world, Shine, Leeds. March 25 – April 14).
2021
“Back-to-back houses in Leeds: development & decline.” [presentation] (‘Building the Victorian and Edwardian terraced house.’ The Victorian Society. November 23).
“Heritage Open Days: Back-to-back houses and their communities, Harehills, Leeds.” (Previously available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1-gY4Sg_zU).
“Back-to-back to the future?” [presentation]. (‘Lecture series.’ Wakefield Civic Society, July 22).
“Brutal North.” [panel discussion] (Wakefield Civic Society, Leeds Civic Trust, Bradford Civic Society. June 3).
“Leeds Back to Backs – Origin, development and decline.” [presentation]. (‘Lunchtime CPD.’ Karakusevic Carsen Architects. April 20).
“Heritage at risk: Back-to-back houses in 21st century Leeds.” [talk]. (Meanwood Women’s Institute, April 19).
2020-2022
Rediscovering the lost streets of Victorian Burmantofts and Sheepscar, Leeds.” [exhibition]. Abbey House Museum, Leeds. 23 July – 22 October 2021; Leeds Central Library, Leeds. 23 October 2021 – 17 January 2022; Leeds City Museum, Leeds. 18 January – 25 February 2022; Leeds Industrial Museum, Leeds. 28 February 2022 – 12 May 2022; Reginald Centre Community Hub, Leeds. 13 May – 31 May 2022; Abbey House Museum, Leeds. 1 June – 22 July 2022; Compton Centre Community Hub, Leeds. 5- 26 April 2023.
2020
“Back-to-back houses in Leeds” [presentation]. (Housing and Power in the Modern World conference, online, November 11) – I co-organised this conference. For further details see https://housingandpower.wordpress.com/
“Rediscovering the lost streets of Victorian Burmantofts and Sheepscar, Leeds.”. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V7kG5Tw3dA
2019
“Housing, heritage and digital technologies” [poster], (Digital Heritage Conference, University of York, June 24).
“Back-to-back houses and their communities in 21st century Leeds” [presentation], (Space Network, York, May 17).
“Heritage at risk – back-to-back houses” [presentation] (Leeds Central Library Centre, Leeds, April 19).
“Heritage at risk – back-to-back houses” [presentation] (1152 club, Kirkwall Abbey Visitors Centre, Leeds, April 12).
2017 – 2019
“The back-to-back houses, Harehills” [walking tour] (Heritage Open Days, Leeds, September 2017, 2018 and 2019).
Back-to-back houses and their communities in 21st century Leeds. [exhibition]. Heritage Open Days, Compton Centre Community Hub, Leeds. September 2017 and 2018; Harehills Festival, Banstead Park, Leeds. August 2017, 2018 and 2019; Great Get Together, Compton Centre Community Hub, Leeds. June 2018).
2016
“Back-to-back houses and their communities in 21st century Leeds” [poster], (WRoCAH conference, University of York, Oct. 2016).
“The Chantry Chapel, Wakefield: the History of its Building and Re-building” [presentation], (Wakefield’s Medieval Bridge and Chantry Chapel Conference, Wakefield, Oct. 2016).
“Heritage at risk: Victorian back-to-back houses in 21st century Leeds” [presentation], (Association for Industrial Archaeology conference, Telford, Sep. 2016).
2015
“Wakefield Cathedral: 19th and 21st century interventions in the fabric, and their significance in the building’s conservation history” [presentation],(Wakefield Historical Society, Wakefield, Nov. 2015).
“Approaches to the analysis and interpretation of elite terrace houses in the long eighteenth century” [presentation], H3 Postgraduate Conference, University of Huddersfield, July 2015).
2014
“Heritage conservation – the forgotten agenda in Victorian terraced communities” [presentation], Engaging Conservation Conference, University of York, July 2014).
“Clarke Hall, Wakefield – A new interpretation” [poster], (Annual Student Archaeology 2 Conference: Reading University, June 2014).
2002
“New buildings, New spaces – Planning a Sustainable Environment” [poster], (Ecobuild Conference: Oslo, Sep. 2002)