ACTIVITIES – CENTRE FOR REGIONAL AND LOCAL HISTORY & CENTRE FOR URBAN HISTORY SEMINARS
Autumn 2025 Seminar Series
All seminars are hybrid (in person in Attenborough 101 and via Teams)
Friday 10 October, 3pm
‘Just for fun when the moon is shining’: Exploring Narratives of Dance in Early Colonial Malawi’
Dr Zoe Groves (Leicester)
Please note – the first event is scheduled to take place during the upcoming period of industrial action so may be cancelled.
Thursday 23 October, 2pm
‘Historian of UK Black History: Peter Fryer and Staying Power’
Gaverne Bennett (Leicester)
Thursday 13 November, 2pm
‘Protest and the enclosure of urban public space in England from the late 18th century to the present’
Prof Katrina Navickas (Hertfordshire)
Friday 28 November, 3pm
‘From Nation to Local: Re-Discovering England’s Places through A History of England in 25 Poems’
Prof Catherine Clarke (IHR)
Please email Angela Muir (am1074@le.ac.uk) or Roey Sweet (rhs4@leicester.ac.uk) with any queries about the seminar series or to receive a Teams link