Join us for Hoskins Day 2026
Join us this Saturday 27 June for Hoskins Day 2026, Leicester’s annual celebration of local and landscape history. This year’s keynote lecture is about coastal landscapes of the Second World War and will be delivered by Robert Liddiard (UEA). We will also have: – spotlight on new research from the Centre for Regional and Local […]
Views of England and Wales: a new online collection
This week we are pleased to launch Views of England and Wales, the latest collection to be added to University of Leicester Special Collections Online. We have now published over 2,000 images of historic landscapes, buildings and monuments belonging to the Centre for Regional and Local History. The majority of images are prints made in the […]