• General Meeting for Members

    Special Meeting for Members on 5th October at 6pm to plan the way ahead for LVC. Please save the date and join us by Zoom. More details on the session and the Board’s strategy document will be available closer to the

  • Not Just a Pretty Picture: Art as a Historical Source

    Art galleries are full of artwork appreciated for their great artistic and aesthetic qualities, but what about the local art collection? This talk will look at the different ways that artwork can be used in local history research.

    Free
  • Putting History on the TV and the Radio

    Compared to other academic disciplines, History gets a lot of prime time TV and radio time. It's consistently popular, but what are the effects of the compromises needed to keep the viewers and listeners happy? This talk will give you an opportunity discuss how history has been broadcast. 

    Free
  • Muslims in Leicester

    The session will cover a large ethnographic action research project – Muslims in Leicester – conducted for the Open Society Foundation and published in 2010. Dilwar Hussain, who coordinated the research, talks about this interesting project.

    Free
  • Understanding yourself and why you do what you do

    This workshop aims to look at why do we do what we do. During it you will gain insight, through exploration of the three cornerstone approaches of psychotherapy and counselling, to help understand ourselves and find answers to the question of why we do what we do.
    This workshop is repeated on Saturday 14 May.

    £45