History Archives - Leicester Vaughan College

March Forum: Promoting Leicester – A City of History and Progress

A sign saying 'Welcome to Leicester, Historic City'. A image featuring the clock tower and the surrounding buildings is located over the sign.

A Forum about how Leicester has been promoted to visitors and residents since the City Council established its Publicity and Development Committee in the 1930s.

January Forum: Sudden Death – Nineteenth-Century Coroners Inquests

A black and white drawing of a group of men dressed in frock coats sitting around a table. A small boy stands in front next to what looks like a parish beadle. There is woman standing on the right behind the beadle and a group of men in the background.

A talk by Sophie Michell about how the inquest worked in the nineteenth century. The talk is illustrated with examples from Leicester.

October Forum: 999, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Rooms

Black and white image of a police control room. There are maps on the walls and three policeman and one police woman sit around the control table which has various gadgets. Another officer is standing.

Chris Williams explains about the history of police control rooms and how the 999 emergency telephone system came into operation

May Forum: Returning colonials at home

A British Colonial family outside their house in India. A white woman is sitting in an open carriage attached to a white house. There are two Indian servants by the horse's head. Many in a bowler hat poses in front of the carriage and another man in a bowler had stands behind the carriage.

Dr 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’.

June Forum: Medieval Charnwood Forest

A landscape view with a granite outcrop to the left of the image on a hill. To the right of the image is landscape studded with trees.

A talk by Dr Ann Stones which considers contemporary medieval perceptions of Charnwood using maps, place-names, landscape and archaeological evidence.

March Forum: A Resistant Reading of Family History

An extended family group of 19 people across three generations. The family is sitting outside their cottage in Wales, UK. The image is from the National Library of Wales via Wikimedia commons.

Kate 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.

February Forum: The Giant Hogweed Caper

A man in a suit holding apiece of Giant Hogweed.

Dr Stuart Mitchell talks about the Giant Hogweed sensation of 1970

November Forum: ‘Caught short’

The interior of a men's public toilet. On the right there is a row of urinals in waist height booths, covered in white tiles. ON the left at the wooden doors to WCs. The floor between is of black and white tiles and leads through tow arches.

Leicester Adult Education College, Belvoir Street, LE1 6QL ‘Caught short’: London’s loos since the 1960s In ’Caught short’: London’s loos since the 1960s’ Simon Fowler and Dan Weinbren look at the impact of toilets on public life over the past sixty years.

January Forum: Researching and writing adult education history

A picture of the front cover of Mark Freeman's book The Vital Message. It features an open book box against some shelves of brown books. The book box contains various books and pamphlets.

Professor Mark Freeman considers the challenges of writing an institutional history of university adult education, particularly in the recent period.

Thinking about Medieval Murals

Image: Surviving lower half of the Refectory Mural in the Charterhouse, Coventry. Much of the mural is missing and part has been painted over with a coast of arms. You can see Christ's feet nailed to the cross, two men in armour and a women with a halo presumably Mary, mother of Christ.

What can surviving murals tell us about their original contexts? What are the limits of our powers of interpretation and reconstruction?

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