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 👀

Please join us for the launch of Prof Peter Borsay's last book (with Prof Roey Sweet), 'The Invention of the English Landscape c. 1700-1939'.

🗓️ Friday 29 September
⏰ 15:00-17:00
📍 Attenborough Film Theatre and MS Teams

🔗 eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

'Calling people in acknowledges somebody’s starting point, encourages calmer conversations and potentially provides pathways to more open, evidence-based thinking. After all, changing an opinion is a big ask for all of us'

Really great piece by Corinne Fowler

So many fantastic talks organised by Leicester Hist Ass coming up this year, including @natashastoyce on 'Leslie Joy Whitehead: Canada's forgotten female soldier in the First World War' 👇

Free tickets are available for our fantastic September online talk with Dr Natasha Stoyce entitled- Leslie Joy Whitehead: Canada's forgotten female soldier of the First World War'. We hope to see you there! eventbrite.co.uk/e/natasha-stoy…

Hello all, we hope to see you at some of our fantastic branch talks this year!

Please join us in welcoming Dr Helen Dexter to the SBC! Dr Dexter's research explores feminist theories of peace and violence. We are excited to learn from and collaborate with you!
HyPIR at Leicester

'The question I am asked most frequently is, ‘why Wales?’ My preferred answer is usually, ‘why not?’'

In our next HYPIR research story, Angela Muir discusses her work on the history of sex and crime in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Image: Great Sessions files, National Library of Wales

🔗 le.ac.uk/history/resear…

There's still plenty of time to book your place for the launch of 'The Invention of the English Landscape, c. 1700-1939' by Peter Borsay, with Roey Sweet.

This was Peter Borsay's final book and the launch will include a symposium to mark his contribution to the field.

Details👇