Centre for Regional and Local History
Academic year: 2019-2020
All seminars are open to the public. All are welcome. They are held in the first floor seminar room at Marc Fitch House, 5 Salisbury Rd, LE1 7QR, starting at 2.15pm on Thursdays. Tea and biscuits are served in the common room afterwards.
William Lord Cavendish and his ward, his step-son, Francis Wortley [and his siblings], 1604-12
10 October 2019
Professor Peter Edwards
Sequestration in Leicestershire during the English Civil War
24 October 2019
Dr Charlotte Young
Communities in contrast: Doncaster and its rural hinterland, c. 1830-c. 1870
7 November 2019
Dr Sarah Holland
‘Britain needed aeroplanes’: First World War flax growing at Podington, Bedfordshire
21 November 2019
Dr Paul Stamper
Ancient people and modern places: landscape history and a sense of identity
5 December 2019
Professor Francis Pryor
Landscape perspectives on the Leicestershire gentry, c.1460-1560
23 January 2020
Dr Katie Bridger
Historical pageants in Britain, 1905-2019: locality, community and the performance of the past
6 February 2020
Professor Paul Readman
Where next for the Victoria County History?
20 February 2020
Dr Adam Chapman
From Slave Trade to scramble for Africa: the making of Black population in Britain
5 March 2020
Dr Chris Zembe
The pre-industrial Lowestoft Fish Office: another red herring?
19 March 2020
Matt Bristow