An overview of the local history collection in the University of Leicester Library, one of the largest in the U.K. Includes a focus on poll books as a source.

There are now several open access book publishers using consortia funding models. But library staff on the ground are not always enthusiastic about re-purposing budgets to fund open access books. This post explores the sources of this scepticism.

Book chapter on the plays of two of the earliest Dutch female playwrights.

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.