CENTRE FOR REGIONAL AND LOCAL HISTORY & CENTRE FOR URBAN HISTORY SEMINARS
The Centre for Regional and Local History and Centre for Urban History have joined forces this year to present a joint seminar series, which will take place fortnightly alternating between Thursday and Friday afternoons. All talks will be in-person in Att 101 (CRLH library) or via a Teams link available upon request.
Thursday 3 October 2024, 2pm
‘Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Peter Fryers Black History classic Staying Power’ – Gaverne Bennett (Leicester) – Presented as part of Black History Month in partnership with the University of Leicester Heritage Hub
Friday 18 October 2024, 3pm
‘Reimagining Leicester’s black spaces: Using women’s memories of interracial romantic relationships to expand our understanding of the origins of everyday British multiculturalism between 1960 and 1990’ –
Dr Sue Bishop (Leicester) – Presented as part of Black History Month in partnership with the University of Leicester Heritage Hub
Friday 1 November 2024, 3pm
‘Reinventing the town: How Colchester used the past in its place marketing activities in the long-nineteenth century‘ – Dr Mike Sewell (Manchester Metropolitan)
Thursday 14 November 2024, 2pm
‘See the Carnival. See the Camera Man. See Yourself on the Screen’: Newsreels and local consumer-citizenship in inter-war Britain’ – Dr Conner Scott (Leicester)
Friday 22 November 2024, 3pm
‘”One can hardly believe that a great city ever flourished in this spot”: the construction of ancient Memphis’ – Dr Rober Frost (Leicester)
Thursday 5 December 2024, 2pm
‘Unpacking the Dryad ‘Handicrafts’ collection: towards a global movement of ‘arts and crafts’ in Leicester’ – Maria Chiara Scuderi (Leicester)
All seminars are hybrid: In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams
Email Angela Muir (am1074@le.ac.uk) or Roey Sweet (rhs4@leicester.ac.uk) for Teams link or with any queries about the seminar series