Tutor information
Virginia Bainbridge
Dr Virginia Bainbridge has taught at a range of higher education institutions, including St. Hilda's College, Oxford and Birkbeck College, London. Throughout her career she has engaged with adult learners and has researched and written history for a general audience. She has worked for the Victoria County History series and the National Archives Manorial Document Register. She published Gilds in the Medieval Countryside: Cambridgeshire c.1350-1550 (1996), and is completing a book called Prayer and Power: the Birgittine Nuns of Syon Abbey c.1400-1600.
Courses
This day school will give those seeking to set up their own community or local history projects the opportunity to be inspired by and learn from those who have successfully run community or oral history projects in their own localities.
The course will enable participants to enter the world of Medieval and Renaissance Oxford in the great age of college foundation and expansion from c.1250-1550, showing how this was funded by taxation and by development after 1539 of former monastic land.