Past Conferences, Debates and Lectures
This page contains transcripts and summaries of some of our key events. It is an archive of some of the issues that have been central to the Dartmoor Society, the earliest being a detailed report of the 2001 debate ‘Is a National Park good for Dartmoor?’ As some are over 20 years old, they are also historical documents.
Hallowed Turf: Perspectives on the Conservation of Dartmoor’s Blanket Peat
12 November 2021.
Stakeholder Attitudes to the Narratives of the Dartmoor Commons: Tradition and the Search for Consensus in a Time of Change
by Adrian Colston – 9th November 2018.
Sabine Baring-Gould and his Search for Folk Songs on Dartmoor
by Martin Graebe – 10th November 2017.
Pony Herds and Management on Dartmoor – New Observations
by Robyn Petrie-Ritchie – 31st October 2014.
Exploring Dartmoor’s Skin: from Cut Hill to Hameldown, Drogo and Tottiford – the Soils of Chagford, Moretonhampstead and Beyond
by Tim Harrod – 8th November 2013.
Environment, Tradition and Adventure: Metalmining on and around Dartmoor in the 18th and 19th centuries
by Phil Newman – 23rd November 2011.
Dartmoor’s Archaeological Heritage and its Conservation 1951–2011: New Discoveries – New Attitudes – New Issues
24th September 2011.
The sustainable carbon management of British blanket peatlands: a case study on Dartmoor
by Lauren Parry– 17th November 2010.
Facing Sin – Image and Identity on Medieval Dartmoor
by Sue Andrew (Newsletter 34, pp15–21) – 20th November 2008.
Climate and Environmental Change on Dartmoor: lessons from archaeology and palaeoecology
by Ralph Fyfe (Newsletter 31, pp11–17) – 7th November 2007.
