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London Fortean Society presents: 'The Haunted Landscape' (filmed at Conway Hall on 20 November 2021).
Dr Stuart Dunn - Corpse Roads
In this talk, Dr Stuart Dunn explores how digital landscape modelling can help unlock the secrets of Britain’s ancient pathways. Focusing on “corpse roads”, pathways taken by coffin bearers over the countryside before the Enclosures, it discusses the significance of such routes, and how a mapped understanding of factors such as slope, elevation and distance can shed light on the stories behind them.
Stuart Dunn is a Professor of Spatial Humanities at the Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College London.
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To find out more about Conway Hall and its events, to become a member or to donate: conwayhall.org.uk • Please subscribe to our channel, too.
Conway Hall hosts a wide variety of talks, concerts, exhibitions, courses, performances, community and social events. It is also renowned as a hub for free speech and independent thought, hosting suffragettes, political radicals, scientists, philosophers, artists, performers; campaign, charities and other non- profit organisations.
London Fortean Society presents: 'The Haunted Landscape' (filmed at Conway Hall on 20 November 2021).
Dr Stuart Dunn - Corpse Roads
In this talk, Dr Stuart Dunn explores how digital landscape modelling can help unlock the secrets of Britain’s ancient pathways. Focusing on “corpse roads”, pathways taken by coffin bearers over the countryside before the Enclosures, it discusses the significance of such routes, and how a mapped understanding of factors such as slope, elevation and distance can shed light on the stories behind them.
Stuart Dunn is a Professor of Spatial Humanities at the Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College London.
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To find out more about Conway Hall and its events, to become a member or to donate: conwayhall.org.uk • Please subscribe to our channel, too.
Conway Hall hosts a wide variety of talks, concerts, exhibitions, courses, performances, community and social events. It is also renowned as a hub for free speech and independent thought, hosting suffragettes, political radicals, scientists, philosophers, artists, performers; campaign, charities and other non- profit organisations.
