Two of our editors, Roey Sweet and Rosemary Wakeman, were interviewed by Laurent Coudroy de Lille and Cédric Feriel about our 50th Anniversary conference for Histoire Urbaine 🇫🇷👇
cairn.info/revue-histoire…

Excited to announce our next event, this time focusing on queer histories. Wine & 'Crimes': Pride & Prejudice featuring stories of historic persecution and prosecution of same-sex desire in Wales, paired with Vin Van Cymru wine. 19 June, The Corp Market

vinvancymru.co.uk/collections/wi…

Leading national expert on traditional roofing, Richard Jordan, took the MA Urban Conservation students through a masterclass on how to specify works to heritage assets and work through practical exercises. #Conservation #Leicester

Our Sarah-Jane Walton looks at Anzac reflections of the urban built environments of Cape Town, Durban and Freetown during WW1. Edinburgh University Press Britain & the World CUH Leicester

Simon Headley from the Diocese of Leicester & Burt McNeil from the Leicester Civic Society bringing insights from the wider heritage ecosystem to the Urban Conservation MA in Leicester. Fascinating insights on grant funding, campaigning on heritage protection & innovative design.

Join Historical Assoc this evening for a talk, given by our own Alex Korb, looking how Nazi's used the term 'Völkermord' ('genocide').
Link: history.org.uk/events/calenda…
⏰6.30pm
🗓️Wednesday 10 Jan 2024

Reminder that our 2023 Aubrey Newman Lecture is TOMORROW! To be given this year by the University of Edinburgh's Professor Donald Bloxham, with reception to follow.

See below for details - we look forward to seeing you there!

What, you say, a map showing where all our collections have come from across the East Midlands? What a great idea! Yes, thanks to our Museum Studies student, Lingyun, we have just that. Explore our collections, on a map, here: tinyurl.com/4pw92x27

Upcoming seminar (😍 ) hosted by Centre for Regional and Local History:

‘Wives, sociability and separation in 19th-century England’ with Denise Greany and Judy Somekh.

🗓️Thurs, 30 Nov
⏰2pm
🏠 Attenborough 101 or via Teams

Meeting ID: 312 739 082 041
Passcode: g2HqUp

For our final seminar of the semester, we are looking forward to Dr Marina Inì speaking on ‘Lazzaretti and Quarantine: Mobility and Cross-Cultural Encounters before Entering the Early Modern City’.

🗓️ Fri 24 Nov
⏰ 3pm
📍 Att 111 & online

#earlymodern #UrbanHistory

📢Thurs 26/10 2pm our next seminar features Gaverne Bennett & Chloe Phillips who will be speaking about ‘Black lives in British archives’. All welcome!
🙋In person: Att 101
💻Hybrid: DM for link
Chloe gaverne bennett HyPIR at Leicester College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities University of Leicester
There will be ☕️

Dr Zainab Mai-Bornu will be speaking at the next HyPIR Lab seminar. Come along for a fascinating talk, 'Bringing Women's Voices Back in: Gender and Oil Conflict in the Niger Delta.'
🗓️Monday, 23 October
⏰tea and coffee at 4:30; lecture at 4:45-5:45
🏠Bennet Lecture Theatre 4

Join Centre for Regional and Local History's seminar next week with Prof Corinne Fowler (Museum Studies) on ‘Transatlantic slavery, landownership and enclosure in England, 1738-1836.’
🗓️12 October
⏰12:30
🏠Att 101,
Contact Centre for Regional and Local History' if remote access is needed!
HyPIR at Leicester
College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

Our own Svenje Bethke is speaking tomorrow: 👀

We are happy to have some great speakers on our seminar programme this semester, starting on 13 October. Looking forward to seeing you there in person or online! #UrbanHistory

Do you have something you're just itching to publish? Consider UH Press ' 'Explorations in Local and Regional History' short-form series:

Take a look at the Centre for Urban History's juicy seminar selection this semester 👀