ACTIVITIES – CENTRE FOR REGIONAL AND LOCAL HISTORY & CENTRE FOR URBAN HISTORY SEMINARS.
Spring 2026 Seminar Series.
All seminars are hybrid (in person in Attenborough 101 and via Teams).
Thursday 5 February, 2pm.
‘Mine Goods Are Mine Own: Exploring Law and Political Ideology in an Elizabethan Local Community’ presented by Dr. Jonathan Healey (Oxford).
(Please note that is is a change to the previously advertised presentation.
‘Landscape, Custom and Law in Early Modern Westmorland’).
Friday 27 February, 3pm
‘Circles of Resistance: Taking Wales to Greenham and
Carrying Greenham Back Agaer’
Elaine Titcombe (Leicester)
Friday 6 March, 3pm
Broken Clocks, Wet Roads, and Damp Coats: Climate, Weather,
and Materiality in the Irish City, 1880-1920
Erika Hanna (Bristol)
Friday 20 March, 3pm
‘Answers on the Back of a Postcard’
Richard Jones (Leicester)
Thursday 26 March, 2pm
‘Protest and the enclosure of urban public space in England
from the late 18th century to the present’
Prof Katrina Navickas (Hertfordshire)
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
