Place Names: past and future

Tired of cliched street and place names being generated by marketing departments?  Find out how the work of the Institute for Name Studies at the University of Nottingham can provide an alternative, that stems from an understanding of the landscape, and the lives of generations of people who have inhabited the land. 

Chair - Hannah Smart - Chair Elect Urban Design Group

John Baker Professor of Medieval Studies and Name-Studies.

Introduction to place-names as a source

Susan Kilby , Fellow, INS

Street and field-names as evidence for earlier economic and social history in urban and rural settings. Some of the difficulties with modern naming e.g. individuals whose wealth has connections with slavery.

Abigail Lloyd – Research Affiliate INS

How we can use historical material to inform and support naming practice, some of the challenges involved in the process, resources that are available.