February Forum: The Giant Hogweed Caper
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Dr Stuart Mitchell talks about the Giant Hogweed sensation of 1970
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March Forum: A Resistant Reading of Family History
FeaturedKate Carruthers Thomas talks about her family history research and her attempt to reveal stories of those who have previously been sidelined or ignored in favour of male lines of descent.
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April Forum: Bird Ringing
FeaturedA talk about the process of bird ringing and the data it provides: what is its on-going relevance for conservation management?
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May Forum: Returning colonials at home
FeaturedDr Denise McHugh explains how returning British colonisers tried to find a 'place in the sun' when they returned to Britain from India. She explores the households and habits of self-identifying 'Anglo-Indians'.
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June Forum: Medieval Charnwood Forest
FeaturedA talk by Dr Ann Stones which considers contemporary medieval perceptions of Charnwood using maps, place-names, landscape and archaeological evidence.
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October Forum: 999, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Rooms
FeaturedChris Williams explains about the history of police control rooms and how the 999 emergency telephone system came into operation
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January Forum: Sudden Death – Nineteenth-Century Coroners Inquests
FeaturedA talk by Sophie Michell about how the inquest worked in the nineteenth century. The talk is illustrated with examples from Leicester.
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February Forum: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play
FeaturedMiriam Gill shares how fragmentary stained glass may develop our understanding of the spectacular finale of Coventry's missing Mystery Plays, the Drapers' play of the Last Judgement.
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March Forum: Promoting Leicester – A City of History and Progress
FeaturedA Forum about how Leicester has been promoted to visitors and residents since the City Council established its Publicity and Development Committee in the 1930s.
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April Forum: Artists of the North West: The Lake District and LiverpoolÂ
FeaturedA talk about the works of art by Lakeland and Liverpool artists which are in the Lakeland Arts, the National Trust and Liverpool Record Office collections.