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

CUH Leicester & Centre for Regional and Local History have an exciting seminar series, Spring 2025: from colonial Madras, to post-war Welsh steel communities, Leicestershire antiquities, Zimbabweans in Britain, and the archaeology of small town life in medieval England. There's something for everyone!

Seminars alternate between Fridays at 3pm and Thursdays at 2pm in Attenborough 101. Contact Angela Muir ([email protected]) or Roey Sweet ([email protected]) with any queries.

There may be a touch of frost in the air, but next week is the launch of CUH Leicester and Centre for Regional and Local History's joint Spring Seminar Series. First up is Dr Venkataraman's 'From Colonial City to Austere City: Insights from Sanitary Modernisation of Colonial Madras'. Details below!

This year's UHA conference will be in Los Angeles, California. Submit your paper or panel proposals by 1 February 2025 to take part in what we're sure will be an important conference. 🔗 urbanhistory.org/uha2025 #UrbanHistory #UHA2025

Our first seminar of 2025, organised jointly with Centre for Regional and Local History, is next week! Viswanathan Venkataraman will be speaking on ‘Colonial City as an Austere City: Insights from Sanitary Modernization of Colonial Madras’ 🗓️ Friday 17 January 2025 ⏰ 3pm 📍 Attenborough 101

Want a *free* book? We have lots of great #urbanhistory books available to review 👇

Closing date 24th Feb. CFP: Urban History Group Conference 2025 The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4th & 5th Sept. 2025, University of Leicester. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c... We are back. Special sessions for New Researchers & PG.

Ahead of our conference in September we're publishing a series of blog posts by PGRs and ECRs on their work and the future/significance of urban history In the 1st post, Aaron Andrews introduces the series w/ a potted history of UHG & changes in 2025 urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/the…

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…

What does urban history look like in the digital age? In my latest post for the new Urban History Group ECR blog, I consider how we might use these new tools and techniques to our advantage...

A reminder that CUH Leicester & Centre for Regional and Local History's next seminar is this Thurs, 13 Feb, 2pm: Julian Pooley will be discussing John Nichols' archive (1745-1826), the author of 'The History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Leicester.' Hope to see you there!

A good research culture breaks down silos How can we work together to create a more inclusive research culture for everyone? Share your thoughts 📢 📢 📢 The Research Culture Survey is open now! 👉 Survey link (open for UoL staff & PGRs only): survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90797601/IR…

Event | Join Prof Prashant Kidambi for his inaugural lecture Thinking with the City - exploring how crisis, community, and resistance shape urban South Asia. 🗓️4 June | 5.30pm 📍Sir Bob Burgess Building 🎟️le.ac.uk/professor-kida… #CitizensOfChange | @hypirleicester CUH Leicester

For historian Jim Masselos (1940-2025), Mumbai was a city that was both his archive and his muse scroll.in/article/108389… via Scroll.in

A noteworthy feature of #JimMasselos’s historical writings on Bombay is his sharp awareness of the ambiguities, contradictions and tensions that structure the social worlds of the city. scroll.in/article/108389… Prashant Kidambi writes about the historian's love for Mumbai.

Remembering Jim Masselos, the Australian Scholar of Bombay’s Social History | Rachel Dwyer writes m.thewire.in/article/histor… via @thewire_In