Name: Alex Langlands
Field: Historian
Productions:
Edwardian Farm

After Dinner Speaker

Biography: Alex Langlands is an archaeologist and historian, with a degree in Medieval Archaeology and a MA in World Archaeology; he is also currently studying for his PHD. Alex has had a fascination with the British landscape since his early childhood. In particular, his passion for farming, from prehistoric times through to the recent past, has driven him to excavate numerous rural archaeological sites in a bid to understand agricultural practices from various periods of Britain’s history.

Alex says: “Life on the land one hundred years ago was tough. Making a living from farming and fishing in the south-west of England required an inordinate amount of skills and a taste for seriously hard work. The Edwardian Farm was a new and exciting challenge and a test of all my resolve but I came away having learnt an enormous amount about the hardships of rural life lived at the turn of the twentieth century.”