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

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📣 Join us on 29 April to commemorate: '30 years after: A memorial event for the Genocide Against the Tutsi', in collab with Heritage Hub College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities and Centre for Regional and Local History, taking place University of Leicester, Att 101, 4-6 pm BST, co-org by SBC's Georgia 。 HyPIR at Leicester reg+details👇

Further information for Hoskins Day 1st June, hope to see you there.

🎉Congratulations to MSc Genealogical Studies alumna Morag Peers on being awarded The Professor Phil Batman Family History Prize for her MSc dissertation! The prize recognises outstanding work on history of the family undertaken at any UK University.
#genealogy Centre for Regional and Local History

🔵In the next Centre for Regional and Local History seminar (tomorrow), our very own Prof George Lewis will be speaking about 'Social Justice in Leicester: Negotiating the Leap from History to Commemoration'

🗓️Thursday 29 February 2024
⏰14:00-16:00
📍Attenborough 101 & MS Teams

Check out these grant and prize opportunities from Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Soc (especially the 2025 dissertation prize for research on Leicestershire and/or Rutland)!

lahs.org.uk/grants

News Sold-out true crime themed wine tasting evening returns to Cardiff this Valentine’s Day

🍷 le.ac.uk/news/2024/janu…

#CitizensOfChange | Vin Van Cymru Angela Muir Centre for Regional and Local History

If you're in or near Cardiff in Valentine's Day, you can go see our Director combine 2 of her passions: Welsh true crime, and wine! Vin Van Cymru

Our own Richard Jones has hit the national headlines this week thanks to a rare bug he found in his loo.

Hear more about his find in this interview he did for BBC Leicester

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College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities University of Leicester UoL Press Office HyPIR at Leicester History at Leicester

Sold-out true crime themed wine tasting evening returns to Cardiff this Valentine’s Day ❤️ 🍷 Angela Muir @VinVanCymru

👉 le.ac.uk/news/2024/janu…👈

News | A rare, venomous centipede has been discovered in the home of University of Leicester academic.

👉 le.ac.uk/news/2024/janu…

Dr Richard Jones from @Centre for Regional and Local History spotted the centipede in his downstairs bathroom.

In the next Regional and Local History seminar, Dr Rosemary Shirley (School of Museum Studies) will be speaking about:

👻 Haunting the Rural Mega Warehouse: Landscape, Aesthetic and a Seasonal Ghost Story

🗓️Thurs 25 January
⏰2-4pm
📍 Attenborough 101
🔗 DM Centre for Regional and Local History for Teams link

And now for something a little different...

Our very own Dr Richard Jones (Centre for Regional and Local History) has made an exciting (non-history related) discovery! 🐛👇

Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Gender in Modern Welsh History: Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000'!

Friday 19 January, 16:30 – 18:30

Council Chamber, Main Building, Cardiff University

Register via the link below:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/lansiad-laun…

I'll be part of the panel at the launch for Gender in Modern Welsh History, which is nice since I didn't even have a launch for my own book thanks to Covid.

Centre for Regional and Local History HyPIR at Leicester
College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities @CUHistArchRel Uni of Wales Press

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A very special TRIPLE book launch complete with a festive fire (projection)

Congratulations to (Dr) Oresta Muckute on passing their viva yesterday! 🎉

Oresta’s Midlands4Cities-funded thesis examined ‘Narratives of Loss during the Civil Wars in Ireland, Wales and England Compared, 1641–52’

The Doctoral College College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities