It is of interest to discuss options, necessary actions and, most importantly, the most useful infrastructure for film archives (e.g. an ontology for audiovisual media which is adapted to the requirements of film heritage institutions), it seems advisable to discuss options in a workshop dedicated to this topic. The workshop brought together…[Read more]

William Farrell talks to historian Tim Hitchcock about the origins of the welfare state and its influence on contemporary political narratives.

Review of Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household The World of Alice Le Strange, (review no. 1358)
https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1358

The use of drawing as a research method in local history.

The first PhD thesis awarded to a student in the Centre for English Local History: L. A. Parker’s Enclosure in Leicestershire, 1485-1607 (1948).

Books and pamphlets relating to the Peterloo massacre, held by the University of Leicester Library.

Does current open access policy work for local studies publishing and library collections?

The works of Gavin Stamp (1948 – 2017), writer and historian of architecture, held in the David Wilson Library at the University of Leicester.

Outlines the restoration of the Russian film classic “Man with a Movie Camera” (USSR, 1929) by Dziga Vertov which was carried out by the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam between 2008 and 2010. The restoration allows contemporary audiences the possibility to once again experience Vertov’s film as the filmmaker originally intended – or at least in a v…[Read more]