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SUMMARY:February Forum: The Giant Hogweed Caper
DESCRIPTION:This is an online Forum.  Sign up to receive the joining link.  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Giant Giant Hogweed Caper of 1970 \n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Stuart Mitchell \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the early summer of 1970\, massed ranks of Giant Hogweed ravaged the UK\, burning children and annexing riverbanks\, woodland\, and canals. Or\, at least\, that was the impression given by some media outlets at the time. While the truth was somewhat less dramatic\, still these twelve-foot monsters\, packed with phototoxic sap\, became something of a public sensation. Dr Stuart Mitchell reaches back into the nineteenth century to explain how a highly desirable ornamental plant became an invasive menace. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter \n\n\n\nDr Stuart Mitchell has been lecturing in history at the Open University for nearly 30 years. He is the author of The Brief and Turbulent Life of Modernising Conservatism (2008).  He runs the Curious Histories talks programme\, a series of online and in person talks\, which raises money for a foodbank in Brighton.  \n\n\n\nDetails of the Forum \n\n\n\nThis forum will take place using Zoom Conferencing. Please book your free place using the link below to get the joining details. It will start at 6.15pm and finish by 7.30pm \n\n\n\nTo get tickets \n\n\n\nClick here to get your ticket and Zoom link to this event.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/february-forum-the-giant-hogweed-caper/
CATEGORIES:Vaughan Forum
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SUMMARY:March Forum: A Resistant Reading of Family History
DESCRIPTION:This is an online Vaughan Forum. Sign up here to receive the joining link. \n\n\n\n\n\nRoots and Routes: A Resistant Reading of Family History   \n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas \n\n\n\nImage: National Library of Wales at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Large_family_group\,_Chwilog_NLW3363021.jpg\n\n\n\nI am an interdisciplinary scholar of gender\, who has also spent the last two decades researching my family history. This talk is about the entanglement of those two roles. There has been a lot of technological progress in the techniques of researching family history\, but some things have not changed so fast. Family histories continue to be weighted towards white male lines of descent and activity\, reflecting genealogy’s continuing bias in favour of patriarchy and the colonial. In response\, I have tried to tell stories hitherto sidelined or silenced\, and my talk will discuss how I’ve done this\, through fieldwork\, podcasting and a micro-exhibition. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter \n\n\n\nKate is a Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University. Her research interests are gender and contemporary higher education\, academic writing practices\, and creative research methodologies. She is Co-Convenor of a national research network: Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic (HEC19) hosted by the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE).  She is the author of variety of publications and has a series of podcasts called A Feminist Family History in Eight Lives. \n\n\n\nDetails of this Forum  \n\n\n\nThis forum will take place using Zoom Conferencing. Please book your free place using the link below to get the joining details. It will start at 6.15pm and finish by 7.30pm \n\n\n\nClick here to get your ticket and Zoom link to this event.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/march-forum-a-resistant-reading-of-family-history/
CATEGORIES:Vaughan Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T183000
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SUMMARY:April Forum: Bird Ringing
DESCRIPTION:Leicester Adult Education College\, Belvoir Street\, Leicester\, LE1 6QL \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Kate Moore  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBird ringing in the UK and worldwide provides invaluable data on the breeding success and survival of bird populations\, why populations are changing\, as well as bird migration patterns. Kate will talk about the process of bird ringing and review its ongoing relevance in informing conservation management. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter \n\n\n\nKate has had a varied career at the University of Leicester in the Department of Geography in Cartography\, GIS and Human Geography and in the Department of Lifelong Learning teaching Ecology and Wildlife Conservation. \n\n\n\nEvent Details  \n\n\n\nThis is an in person forum and will take place at Leicester Adult Education College on Belvoir Street\, LE1 6QL. Tea and cake will be provided from 6.15pm. The talk will start at 6.30pm.  Please sign up here to help us with catering numbers.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/april-forum-bird-ringing/
CATEGORIES:Vaughan Forum
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SUMMARY:May Forum: Returning colonials at home
DESCRIPTION:‘Fix your tent’: Returning colonials at home in England\, Bedford and other habitats c1870-1914\n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Denise McHugh  \n\n\n\nImage: British family in India in front of their house: https://www.oldindianphotos.in/2011_06_26_archive.html via Wikimedia Commons\n\n\n\nThis talk explores the households and habits of British colonisers returning home from India at the height of the British ‘Raj’. The self-identified ‘Anglo-Indians’ were mainly middle-class professionals seeking very particular environments to accommodate their extended families\, occupational interests and community networks. We will look at some households and discover how to house-hunt\, what to consider and how to live in England when it is a ‘home’ you do not know. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter \n\n\n\nDenise researched the county towns of Bedford and Lincoln for her doctorate in urban history. She came across a community of returned colonisers in Bedford and after her PhD found out more about why they chose to live Bedford and other selected towns around England. \n\n\n\nMore recently\, Denise has been researching the history of the everyday experience of provincial town and city centre. She has co-authored several articles on the topic and is currently working on a book.  Denise is a former Vaughan tutor and teaches history at the Open University. \n\n\n\nEvent details  \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person forum. There will be tea and cake before the Forum. The talk will start at 6.30pm and finish by 7.45pm. Venue TBC. \n\n\n\nTo Get Tickets \n\n\n\nPlease follow this link to get your free tickets. We ask that you get tickets to help us with catering quantities.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/may-forum-returning-colonials/
CATEGORIES:Vaughan Forum
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SUMMARY:June Forum: Medieval Charnwood Forest
DESCRIPTION:Medieval Charnwood Forest: Wasteland or Wonderland \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Ann Stones  \n\n\n\nMedieval Charnwood Forest was an upland\, rocky\, sparsely populated and largely uncultivated area of north-west Leicestershire which contrasted sharply with the rich and plentiful ‘champion’ landscape of the Soar Valley to its east. But what were contemporary perceptions of medieval Charnwood? Was the forest seen as a barren\, deserted and rather mysterious place\, a barrier to cultural integration? Or was it instead a more familiar landscape\, one regarded as a valuable resource and cultural meeting place? At this forum we will examine landscape\, archaeological\, place-name\, cartographical and place-name evidence in an attempt to find answers to these questions. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter  \n\n\n\nAnn Stones studied for a BA (Hons) in Humanities at Vaughan College and then went on to do an MA in English Local History.  She completed a PhD in English Local History which researched the boundaries of medieval Charnwood Forest (University of Leicester\, 2018). Her PhD was sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in collaboration with Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust’s ‘Charnwood Roots Project’.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnn has also previously worked for Leicester Vaughan College as an Action Researcher for the Community Explorers Project which was run in association with Leicester Aging Together (LAT). She was also the first convener of the Vaughan Forums.  \n\n\n\nEvent Details  \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person forum. There will be tea and cake before the Forum. The talk will start at 6.30pm and finish by 7.45pm. It will be held at Leicester Adult Education College on Belvoir Street\, LE1 6QL. \n\n\n\nGet tickets  \n\n\n\nTo help us with catering numbers\, please book your place for this free event here.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/june-forum-medieval-charnwood-forest/
CATEGORIES:Vaughan Forum
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SUMMARY:October Forum: 999\, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Rooms
DESCRIPTION:Location: Gimson Room\, Secular Hall\, Humberstone Gate\, Leicester \n\n\n\n\n\nDay 282 West Midlands Police: West Midlands Police via Wikimedia Commons : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Day_282_-West_Midlands_Police(8067244132).jpg\n\n\n\nAbout the October Forum \n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Chris Williams \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n‘999\, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Rooms’ \n\n\n\nMany of us will have dialed ‘999’ and asked for ‘police’. But what’s the history of this system that we take for granted? It began in the 1930s – but owed a lot to earlier innovation from the military and the railways. Once British police forces became centrally controlled on an operational level\, they also transformed technologically. Computers brought information into the control room\, and CCTV brought images. This lecture tells the story of this transformation and its wider significance in British society. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter \n\n\n\nDr Chris Williams has researched and written various books and articles on police history\, including police surveillance and the emergence of CCTV. He is the author of Police Control Systems in Britain\, 1775–1975: From Parish Constable to National Computer (2014).  \n\n\n\nEvent Details  \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person Forum. There will be tea and cake before the Forum from 6.15 pm. The talk will start at 6.30pm and finish by 7.45pm. The Forum will be held in Secular Hall on Humberstone Gate in the Gimson Room.   \n\n\n\nGet tickets  \n\n\n\nTo help us with catering numbers\, please book your place for this free event here.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/october-forum-999-cctv-and-computers-the-history-of-police-control-rooms/
CATEGORIES:Vaughan Forum
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SUMMARY:January Forum: Sudden Death - Nineteenth-Century Coroners Inquests
DESCRIPTION:Online via Zoom Conferencing  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSudden Death: Nineteenth-Century  \n\n\n\nAbout the January Forum \n\n\n\nSudden Death: Nineteenth-Century Coroners Inquests\, a talk illustrated with case studies from Leicester\n\n\n\nSudden fatalities attracted great social\, medical and media interest in the nineteenth century. Inquests\, typically held publicly and rapidly after a death\, were community events\, drawing people from all social classes together to discuss and judge causes of death. The coroner’s court identified homicide and criminal acts of suicide\, but also investigated accidents and unexpected natural deaths. The proceedings offer a remarkable insight into Victorian life\, death and society\, lifting the curtain on domestic life\, working practices\, and interpersonal relationships. In this talk\, Sophie Michell explains how the inquest worked in the nineteenth century\, using examples from Leicester.  \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nSophie Michell is a PhD candidate at the Open University\, studying the coroner’s court in Peterborough.  \n\n\n\nEvent Details  \n\n\n\nThis is an online event. Please use this link to get your ticket.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/january-forum-sudden-death-19th-century-coroners-inquests/
CATEGORIES:Vaughan Forum
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SUMMARY:February Forum: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play
DESCRIPTION:Online via Zoom Conferencing  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the February Forum \n\n\n\n‘Tantalizing Fragments: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play’\n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Miriam Gill \n\n\n\nThe cycle of Mystery Plays performed by the trade guilds of Coventry were famous in the later Middle Ages\, enjoyed by royalty and\, in their latter days\, probably seen by William Shakespeare. But only two plays survive; the famous ‘Coventry Carol’ comes from one. The other plays can only be reconstructed from some expenses of the ‘consumables’ and the visual culture of Coventry. This forum shares the ways how fragmentary stained glass may develop our understanding of the spectacular finale of the cycle\, the Drapers’ play of the Last Judgement. \n\n\n\nAbout the presenter \n\n\n\nMiriam Gill is an expert in Medieval church painting. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on the topic and has taught art history to adults at the universities of Leicester\, Cambridge and Oxford for many years.  She is also the Secretary of Leicester Vaughan College.  \n\n\n\nDetails of this Forum \n\n\n\nThis forum will take place using Zoom Conferencing. Please book your free place using the link below to get the joining details. It will start at 6.15pm and finish by 7.30pm \n\n\n\nClick here to get your ticket and Zoom link to this event.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/february-forum-piecing-together-traces-of-a-lost-coventry-mystery-play/
CATEGORIES:Vaughan Forum
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SUMMARY:March Forum: Promoting Leicester - A City of History and Progress
DESCRIPTION:Location: Leicester Adult Education College  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the March Forum \n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Sally Ann Hartshorne \n\n\n\nWhen the broadcaster Ray Gosling visited Leicester in the 1960s he said that if he had to show an American in one day what England was all about he would take them to Leicester as ‘it has all of old England\, our heritage\, well-kept and cared for but without the olde charm of a Canterbury.’  Yet he also bought a postcard featuring an image of the newly opened Lee Circle car park\, which represented a very modern up-to-date city.  This session will consider how the balance of the history and progress of Leicester has been promoted to visitors and residents since the council established its Publicity and Development Committee in the 1930s. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter \n\n\n\nSally Ann Hartshorne completed her doctoral thesis ‘City of History and Progress’: Heritage and Urban Development in Leicester 1934 to 2010‘ in the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester.  She is the author of ‘Urban history ‘on the go’: Discovering and developing Leicester’s cultural quarter’\, published in Urban History (2020) and a Trustee for Leicester Civic Society. \n\n\n\nEvent Details  \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person Forum. There will be tea and cake before the Forum from 6.15 pm. The talk will start at 6.30pm and finish by 7.45pm. Venue TBC.  \n\n\n\nGet tickets  \n\n\n\nTo help us with catering numbers\, please book your place for this free event here.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/march-forum-promoting-leicester-a-city-of-history-and-progress/
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SUMMARY:April Forum: Artists of the North West: The Lake District and Liverpool 
DESCRIPTION:Location: Leicester Adult Education College\, Room E1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the April Forum\n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Ellie Pridgeon  \n\n\n\nThis paper will examine art collections\, paintings and photographs held at Lakeland Arts\, the National Trust\, and Liverpool Record Office which document landscape and ways of life in nineteenth and twentieth-century Lakeland and Liverpool. Artists include painters Allan Tankard and Edward Lear\, and photographers Edward Chambré Hardman and Joseph Hardman. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter  \n\n\n\nEllie Pridgeon is an art historian and professional archivist. She teaches art history at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and has taught for many years at the Attenborough Arts Centre.  She is currently working as an archivist for Liverpool City Archives. She is a Director of Leicester Vaughan College. You can find out about Ellie’s publications here.  \n\n\n\nEvent Details  \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person Forum. There will be tea and cake before the Forum from 6.15 pm. The talk will start at 6.30pm and finish by 7.45pm. Venue: Leicester Adult Education College. \n\n\n\nGet tickets  \n\n\n\nTo help us with catering numbers\, please book your place for this free event here.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/april-forum-artists-of-the-north-west-the-lake-district-and-liverpool/
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