Events

Information about upcoming events hosted by the Centre for Regional and Local History.

Centre for Regional and Local History and Centre for Urban History: Spring 2025 Seminar Series

All seminars take place in Attenborough 101, Attenborough Tower, University of Leicester.

Friday 17 January 2025, 3.00pm

‘Colonial City as an Austere City: Insights from Sanitary Modernization of Colonial Madras’
Dr Viswanathan Venkataraman (KCL)

Thursday 30 January, 2.00pm

‘No More Living on Top of the Works: Housing, Commuting and Social Life in Post-War Welsh Steel Communities’
Prof Louise Miskell (Swansea)

Thursday 13 February, 2.00pm

The Book that Changed My Life: Discovering the Archive of John Nichols (1745-1826), author of the History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Leicester
Julian Pooley (Surrey History Centre and CRLH)

Friday 28 February, 3.00pm

‘Quest for a Cohesive Diaspora African Community: Reliving Historic Experiences by Zimbabweans in Britain’
Dr Christopher Roy Zembe (De Montfort)

Thursday 13 March, 2.00pm

‘Almost Urban? Approaching the Archaeology of Small Town Life in Medieval England’ 
Prof Ben Jervis (Leicester)

Please email Angela Muir (am1074@le.ac.uk) or Roey Sweet (rhs4@leicester.ac.uk) with any queries about the seminar series.