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2022/23 Events
Conference to mark 50 years of the Urban History Journal
Dates: 11-13 July 2023
Venue: College Court, University of Leicester, UK
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Centre for Urban History Seminars
Each year we host a series of free seminars and lectures which is open to graduates, students, staff and members of the public. For more information about events, contact Dr Prashant Kidambi.
Spring 2023
All seminars in Room 111, Attenborough Seminar Block and online: Fridays at 3pm
Seminar Co-ordinator: Richard Ansell. Please email for links for online participation.
Embracing Fear: A Pathway for Historic Urban Analysis
Speaker: Sarah Collins (Newcastle University)
Date: 13 January 2023
Cemeteries as Urban Spaces in Late Medieval Cairo and Paris Compared
Speaker: Caitlin John (UCL)
Date: 27 January 2023
Marginality, Trans-imperial Mobility, and Respectability: The Deportation Case of an Anglo-Chinese ‘Brothel-keeper’ in London, 1937
Speaker: Vivian Kong (University of Bristol)
Date: 24 February 2023
The Role of the Italianate in London Town Planning (c.1820-1860)
Speaker: David McKinstry (Imperial College London/Camden Council)
Date: 10 March 2023
The Battle to Build the Great West Road (1901-1914)
Speaker: Tracey Logan (University of Leicester)
Date: 24 March 2023
Soldier Sojourners and Cityscapes: Anzac Impressions of the Port Cities of Durban, Cape Town and Freetown During the First World War and the Significance of the Built Environment
Speaker: Sarah-Jane Walton (University of Leicester)
Date: 12 May 2023
Selling Education in England, c. 1650-1715
Speaker: John Gallagher (University of Leeds)
Date: 26 May 2023
Autumn/Winter 2022
All seminars in Belvoir Park Annexe, 2nd Floor, Charles Wilson Building, University of Leicester: Fridays at 3pm
Please email ra437@le.ac.uk for a link for online participation.
The Media, Affect, and Community in a Decade of Disasters: The 1985 Bradford City Stadium Fire
Speaker: Aaron Andrews (University of Leicester)
Date: 30 September 2022
The West End of London Between the Wars
Speaker: Rohan McWilliam (Anglia Ruskin University)
Date: 14 October 2022
Writing 1960s/70s London
Speaker: John Davis (Queen’s College, Oxford)
Date: 28 October 2022
Nineteenth-Century Usk: A Tale of Small-Town Survival?
Speaker: Elizabeth Jones (Cardiff University)
Date: 11 November 2022
Dynamic Characteristics of Networks Among Leading Citizens: Chester, c.1750-1840
Speaker: Raku Nagamine (University of Leicester)
Date: 11 November 2022
Connected Colonies in Wartime South China: Relief, Resistance, and Collaboration in Hong Kong, Guangzhouwan, and Macau, 1937-1945
Speaker: Helena F. S. Lopes (University of Bristol)
Date: 2 December 2022
Religion and the Urban Landscape in Northern England, c.1740-c.1830
Speaker: Hannah Barker (University of Manchester)
Date: 9 December 2022
Seminar Co-ordinator: Richard Ansell (ra437@le.ac.uk)
2021/22 Events
Liverpool and the Making of Creative Capitalism in Late Twentieth-Century Britain
Speaker: Sam Wetherell, (University of York)
Date: 8 October 2021
Venue: Online event
From Army Bazaar to Civilian City: The Development of Cantonment Urbanism in 19th-Century India
Speaker: Christopher Cowell, (Trinity College, Dublin)
Date: 22 October 2021
Venue: Online event
'A caustic but kindly wit': humour, sociability and practical joking in Victorian bohemia
Speaker: Rory Booth (University of Leicester)
Date: 5 November 2021
Venue: Online event
Objecting to urban redevelopment in the Roman world
Speaker: Chris Siwicki (University of Exeter)
Date: 19 November 2021
Venue: Online event
Housing Social Democrats: Family and State in Council Housing, 1944-1974
Speaker: Claire Wrigley (University of California, Berkley)
Date: 3 December 2021
Venue: Online event