Iron Firebacks - a Sussex Speciality
Jeremy Hodgkinson, MA, FSA SpeakerNet Sponsor
- Regions:
- Surrey, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £60 plus 25p/mile
- Category:
- Humanities
- Updated:
- 15th March 2024
- Tagged:
- Decorative Art | History | Furniture | Antiques
The national predominance of the Sussex furnaces in iron production in the early-modern period, and the almost universal use of wood for domestic heating and cooking, led to the county being the principal source of iron firebacks. This talk reveals the social history and variety of these remarkable plates.
Views: 260 | Enquiries: 0About Jeremy Hodgkinson, MA, FSA
I am a retired school teacher and, for more than 40 years, have lectured, primarily about the Wealden iron industry, at conferences and to local societies and adult education audiences. I have also appeared occasionally in a specialist role on radio and television. I gained my MA in Regional and Local History from the University of Brighton in 1993. I am a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and until recently was an Honorary Research Fellow of Exeter University. I was Chairman of the Wealden Iron Research Group for 24 years and am now the editor of its annual journal. I am the author of two books: The Wealden Iron Industry, published in 2008, and British Cast-Iron Firebacks, published in 2010.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Jeremy Hodgkinson, MA, FSA
- Cast-iron Firebacks
- Heraldry on British Iron Firebacks
- Pictures in Iron: Pictorial Designs on British Firebacks
- Wealden Iron and Church Monuments
- The Wealden Iron Industry (from the Iron Age to the early-19th century)
- The Iron Industry in the Weald from the Iron Age to the Middle Ages
- The Post-medieval Iron Industry in the Weald (from 1490-1828)
- Gun-founding in the Weald
- The Work of the Wealden Iron Research Group
- Crawley Down – Past to nearly Present
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