Previous Conferences
Spring Conferences
- 1956 - Nottingham
- 1957 - Cambridge
- 1958 - Caernarvon
- 1959 - Monmouth
- 1960 - Essex
- 1961 - West Yorkshire
- 1962 - Kent
- 1963 - Devon
- 1964 - Worcestershire
- 1965 - Cumberland
- 1966 - Berkshire
- 1967 - Norfolk
- 1968 - Hereford
- 1969 - Cornwall
- 1970 - Brecon
- 1971 - Lincolnshire
- 1972 - Suffolk
- 1973 - Lancashire
- 1974 - Leicestershire
- 1975 - Surrey
- 1976 - North Yorkshire
- 1977 - Devon
- 1978 - Derbyshire
- 1979 - Lancaster
- 1980 - Hampshire
- 1981 - Dundee
- 1982 - Shropshire
- 1983 - North Avon/South Gloucestershire
- 1984 - Essex
- 1985 - Warwickshire/South Staffs
- 1986 - Somerset
- 1987 - Oxfordshire
- 1988 - Glamorgan
- 1989 - West Yorkshire
- 1990 - Wiltshire
- 1991 - Durham
- 1992 - Kent
- 1993 - Guernsey
- 1994 - Buckinghamshire
- 1995 - Worcestershire
- 1996 - Radnorshire
- 1997 - Norfolk
- 1998 - Northumberland
- 1999 - North-east Hants/West Sussex
- 2000 - Staffordshire/Cheshire
- 2001 - Suffolk
- 2002 - Ireland-Dublin
- 2003 - Essex
- 2004 - Yorkshire
- 2005 - North Wales
- 2006 - Somerset
- 2007 - Cambridgeshire
- 2008 - Devon
- 2009 - Jersey
- 2010 - Northumbria
- 2011 - Oxfordshire
- 2012 - East Midlands
- 2013 - South Wales
- 2014 - Gloucestershire
- 2015 - Cumbria
- 2016 - Lincolnshire
- 2017 - Hertfordshire
- 2018 - North Wales
- 2019 - East Cornwall
- 2020 - No conference
- 2021 - East Anglia (online)
- 2022 - Norfolk (online)
- 2023 - Greater Manchester
The 2021 and 2022 spring conferences were held online due to Covid - the recorded talks are available by following the links above.
Winter Conferences
- December 1999 - The Use of Tree-ring Dating for Research
- December 2000 - Vernacular Architecture and Related Fields
- December 2001 - The Transition from the Medieval to the Early-Modern House Revisited
- December 2002 - News From the Regions
- December 2003 - VAG 50th Anniversary Conference: Celebration and Speculation
- December 2004 - Vernacular Buildings and the Church
- December 2005 - Buildings, Rebuildings and Vernacular Thresholds
- December 2006 - Houses of Mud and Earth
- December 2007 - Towns and Town Houses 1000-1700
- December 2008 - Marginal Architecture
- December 2009 - The Polite Threshold
- January 2011 - Service Rooms, Servants' Chambers, and Storage
- January 2012 - Where, When and Why? - Themes and Ideas in Vernacular Architecture Studies inspired by J T Smith
- January 2013 - The Medieval Peasant House Revisited
- January 2014 - Attention to Detail
- January 2015 - Farmsteads in Focus
- January 2016 - Vernacular Boundaries
- January 2017 - Seeing the wood and the trees: the management of timber from source to building site
- January 2018 - Vernacular Survival: the vernacular architecture of the ‘long eighteenth century’
- January 2019 - Vernacular Landscapes
- January 2020 - Marks on Buildings
- January 2021 - Houses and the Hearth Tax in Britain (online)
- February 2022 - Upstairs/Downstairs - on Room Use in Buildings (online)
- January 2023 - Trans-National Connections - Vernacular Architecture in Britain & Beyond
The 2021 and 2022 winter conferences were held online due to Covid - the recorded talks are available by following the links above.
Oxford Study Schools
In past years, the Group contributed to occasional weekend or day schools previously run by the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education.
- The Vernacular Workshop - from craft to industry, 1400-1900
- Housing for the Masses, 1800-2000
- Diffusion and Invention - vernacular building in England and the New World
- Estate Building: The Impact of Estates on the Built Landscape
- Vernacular Interiors in the British Tradition
- Markets and Market Places
- Medieval Domestic Cultures
- The Eighteenth Century Town House
- Medieval Communal Life and its Buildings
- Getting About: Buildings and Inland Transport
- Workers' Homes: Improvement and Technology
- Vernacular Revivals
- Recording Town Buildings
- Cruck Buildings: Origins, Distribution, Significance and Derivatives
Other Conferences and Visits
Visit to France
The VAG arranged a trip to the Maine region of France on 23-27 June 2016. A full report is available on the Members' Area.
Visit to Denmark
The VAG organised a trip to Denmark on 8-14 June 2014, visiting a number of historic towns and some of the many long-established folk museums, where historic buildings have been collected together to illustrate the regional differences.
Saeters and Stave Churches
The group organised a tour to Norway on 16-26 June 2011 to visit some of its notable timber buildings. A full report is available on the Members' Area.
