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Gaverne Bennett's ‘Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Peter Fryer's Black History classic "Staying Power"’ is first up in the seminar series hosted by the Centres of Urban History and Regional and Local History: 🗓️Thurs 3 Oct 🏠Att 101/Teams ⏰2pm CUH Leicester Centre for Regional and Local History

Our seminar series this year is being held jointly with Centre for Regional and Local History! We've got a really exciting series of talks lined up, incl some which are part of the University of Leicester Heritage Hub #BlackHistoryMonth series All seminars are hybrid. Attenborough 101 or MS Teams. Details 👇

Unfortunately the 3 October talk (Celebrating 40 Years of Staying Power) has been cancelled.

We're pleased to announce that the Phil Batman Family History Prize for 2024 is now open for submissions! 📅Deadline: 30 November 2024 HyPIR at Leicester History at Leicester College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities University of Leicester

Thank you to today's panellists for sharing their experiences of learning & teaching Black history in Britain - such an interesting and important discussion for both students and teachers. Drooling over that dream curriculum...

Extra shout out to the Heritage Hub and the Centre for Regional and Local History (Centre for Regional and Local History) for supporting the event.

And it doesn't end there...follow the upcoming line-up of Black History month events, featuring our own Zainab Mai-Burno and her documentary on Gender and Oil Conflict in the Niger Delta and the screening of 'Terry's GI Dad' with the makers of the film.

In the next CUH Leicester/Centre for Regional and Local History seminar, Michael Sewell will be speaking on 'Reinventing the town: How Colchester used the past in its place marketing activities in the long-nineteenth century' 🗓️ Friday 1 November ⏰ 3pm 📍 Attenborough 101/MS Teams 📷 KentBlaxill1838

There's still just over a month to apply for our UG and MA dissertation prizes! Any dissertations submitted in the UK in the 23-24 academic year that deal with the history of the family (broadly defined) may be eligible! Please share! 👇

NEW BLOG POST! Thanks to funding from Heritage Hub, we're going to work with the Havant Local History Group on a collaborative project - 'Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts.' We're going to find out more about railway staff & their accidents in our area: railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/introducing-po…

LOST+FOUND WRITING WORKSHOP ✍️ How can memories connect us to places? Join me for this free workshop exploring oral histories from the archives as inspiration for creative writing. Leicester Central Library Sat 1 Feb 2025 10.30-12.30. Book your place: bit.ly/3OyBtRl

We're pleased to announce our spring seminar series, in partnership with CUH Leicester!

Paid internships! Go Bangor Hanes a Gwleidyddiaeth / History & Politics. Any takers?

Travelling to Leicester today to contribute to this great looking seminar series…

Great to see Dr Sarah Inskip & my research reach wider audiences! Mudlarker Liz Anderson 🇺🇦🌻📚🖋🏺📷🍸 engages with 'Material Encounters' (Historical Research, 2023) in her blog on tobacco pipe finds on the London foreshore amudlarksdiary.com/2023/06/25/bac…

Read our Open Access article here! 'Material encounters: the alternative use of clay tobacco pipes in England and Wales, c.1600–1900' 👇👇👇 academic.oup.com/histres/articl…

📢We're delighted to announce 3 funded MA studentships in Black British local history in partnership with BCA, and in honour of our alumnus, Len Garrison. See link for details HyPIR at Leicester University of Leicester College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities #twitterstorians 💻le.ac.uk/english-local-…