Programme

Saturday

9.30am	Registration and Coffee
9.50am	Welcome: Dr Andrew Hopper and Dr Philip Major
10.00am	“Oh how I love these Solitudes”: Thomas Fairfax and the Poetics of Retirement Dr Philip Major (Birkbeck, University of London)
11.00am	“In So Shifting a Scene”: Thomas Fairfax as the Lord of Man, 1652–1660 Dr John Callow (The Marx Library, Clerkenwell)
12.00pm	Coffee
12.15pm	An Appleton Psalter: the Shared Devotions of Thomas Fairfax and Andrew Marvell Rory Tanner (University of Ottawa)
1.15pm	Lunch
2.30pm	Anne and Thomas Fairfax, and the Vere 'Connection' Professor Jacqueline Eales (Canterbury Christ Church University)
3.30pm	“The Genius of the House”: Andrew Marvell’s Private Lord Fairfax Keith Macdonald (University of Leicester)
4.30pm	Afternoon tea
5.00pm	Images of Fairfax in Modern Literature and Film Dr Andrew Hopper (University of Leicester)
6.00pm	Wine reception

9.30am	Sir Thomas Fairfax and siege warfare during the English civil wars Robert Barcroft (Keele University)
10.30am	Remembering (and Forgetting) Fairfax’s Battlefields Dr Ian Atherton (Keele University)
11.30am	Coffee
11.50am	Naseby: Landscape of a Battlefield Dr Mandy de Belin (University of Leicester)
12.50am	Lunch
1.50pm	Travel to Naseby by coach
2.30pm	Battlefield tour conducted by members of the Naseby Battlefield Project
5.00pm	Afternoon tea in Naseby area
5.30pm	Return to Leicester by coach
6.10pm	Arrive back in Leicester; conference ends