Excited for our PGR conference on Thursday, featuring talks on everything from medieval farming 🧑‍🌾 to space exploration 🚀

Deadline extended for the UHA Lynn Hollen Lees Book Prize for best book in European Urban History!

Submit by June 4: urbanhistory.org/awardsubmissio…

🚨 New publication!

🕌 Richard Ansell, 'William Gell's encounters with Islamic Spain, 1808-36' out now in British School at Rome

🔗 bit.ly/4dJlIlO

My article on an early 19th-century British traveller’s decades-long encounter with the #alhambra and Spain’s Islamic history is now online and open access. It has been a pleasure to work on William Gell’s notebook with British School at Rome!
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Are you interested in the past, present, and future of Leicester's terraced housing?

Well CUH Leicester and East Midlands Oral History Archive have an event for you! 👇

🌍 In the fourth Global Urban History Narrating Urban Lives conversation, Kaysha Corinealdi, Michael Goebel, and Prita Meier will be speaking about 'Worldmaking'

🗓️ 22 May
⏰ 15:00-17:00 UTC
🔗 bit.ly/GUHPWorldmaking

🚨 There's still plenty of time to submit your articles, books, and dissertations (theses) for the UHA Awards! 🚨

🗓️ Submit by 14 May, 11:59 EST

🔗 urbanhistory.org/awardsubmissio…

Leading national expert on traditional roofing, Richard Jordan, took the MA Urban Conservation students through a masterclass on how to specify works to heritage assets and work through practical exercises #Conservation #leicestercity

Find out more le.ac.uk/courses/urban-…

Professor Roey Sweet, en Français 🇫🇷

Great to see that the Walk Leicester Festival is back! 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️

There are so many great guided walks throughout May, including one looking at the architectural heritage of the University of Leicester campus

More info on all the walks and to book your place: choosehowyoumove.co.uk/walkleicester/

Simon Headley from Diocese of Leicester & Burt McNeil from 🏛️Leicester Civic Society🏙️ bringing insights from the wider heritage ecosystem to the Urban Conservation MA in Leicester. Fascinating insights on grant funding, campaigning on heritage protection & innovative design

🚨Cfp 🚨
Euro Review History 30th anniversary conf:

“(Un)Sustainabilities in History” 13-15 Nov. (Bremen, Germany)

Histories of environment; humanitarianism; science; politics.

Deadline 14 June.

ECR essay prize too!

More deets - euroreviewhistory.com

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Students on Leicester’s Urban Conservation MA learning about historic structures and how to maintain them without damaging them using techniques from the conservation cleaning specialists at Restorative Techniques. Included having a go at cleaning a historic bridge #Conservation

Our Sarah-Jane Walton looks at Anzac reflections of the urban built environments of Cape Town, Durban and Freetown during WW1. Edinburgh University Press Britain & the World CUH Leicester

If you missed 'Urban Undersides' yesterday, you can check out the recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=I7Aa46…

And don't miss our next conversation, 'Worldmaking,' with Kaysha Corinealdi, Michael Goebel, and Prita Meier on May 22!

✍️Register here: bit.ly/GUHPWorldmaking

The 2024 Urban History Association (@UHA) Awards are now accepting submissions -- what a great opportunity to nominate books, journal articles, and dissertations in global urban history!

urbanhistory.org/awardsubmissio…

Submit by May 10!

Another interesting article from the Urban History 50th Anniversary conference. Perhaps one for Global Urban History folks!