2023

Northamptonshire Historical Association Talk – Jim Beach (UON) ‘Major Cartwright and the 1919 Revolution in Northampton

16th March 2023

Northamptonshire Historical Association Talk – Kerry Love (UON) ‘Banners in British Left-Wing Politics Since 1800’

23rd February 2023

Northampton Centre for Historical Studies Research Seminar – Chris Millington (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘Mad or Bad? Paul Gorguloff, the Man who Killed the French President in 1932’

22nd February 2023

Northamptonshire Historical Association Talk – Prof. Elizabeth Tingle (DMU) ‘Pilgrimage to Compostela Since 1000CE’

19th January 2023

Northampton Centre for Historical Studies Research Seminar – Nathan Amin ‘Henry VII: England’s Unlikeliest King?’

18th January 2023

2022

The Centre for Historical Studies Launch Event

16th December 2022 – Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, Northampton

The Centre for Historical Studies at the University of Northampton is a hub for a wide range of approaches and methods of thinking about the past.

The event included:

Keynote talk by Dr Andrew Hann, Senior Properties Historian for English Heritage , speaking on issues of the imperial past and developing collaborative practices
Chris Houghton, Head of Digital Scholarship at Gale Primary Sources, talking on the future of digital humanities
A showcase of the PhD projects in History at the University of Northampton

The Centre for Historical Studies aims to enrich the wider discipline of History by creating a productive environment for high quality research, publications and postgraduate study as well as scholarly networking, conferences, and events. We will contribute to public debates, including the defense of History as an important and timely academic subject.

Organiser: Centre for Historical Studies (contact Dr Mark Rothery)

The History Virtual Research Seminars – Autumn Series (Sept – December 2022)

The Centre for the Advancement of Racial Equality Launch Event

12th September 2022 – University of Northampton Waterside Campus

The Centre for the Advancement of Racial Equality Launch Event is an exciting new research centre at the University of Northampton.

The Centre for the Advancement of Race Equality (CARE) promotes research, learning and teaching, and knowledge exchange on issues of race, ethnicity, racial inequality, and positive change.

The vision for CARE is twofold.

CARE is an important centre for developing and extending critically aware cultures throughout the University of Northampton, bringing together many areas of research and teaching excellence related to issues of racial equality.
CARE is outward facing and is a focal point for partnerships with local, regional and national organisations engaged with the promotion of racial equality within society.

The launch event included:

A keynote talk by Professor Kalwant Bhopal (University of Birmingham), author of White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society
A session showcasing the Changemaker Award Winning Cultural Integration Workshops: These provide people with the skills needed to develop empathy for others’ lived experiences, decreasing fear and creating inclusive learning environments and workplaces, resulting in safe spaces that encourage all people to thrive in education, work, and society
A discussion session with Professor Anne-Marie Kilday, Vice Chancellor of the University of Northampton on achieving racial equality in Higher Education
A networking space to find out about the wide range of researchers engaged with the new Centre for the Advancement of Racial Equality
A session showcasing the University of Northampton’s workshops on tackling far right, for police, teachers and anti-racism organisations

Organiser: Centre for the Advancement of Racial Equality (contact Professor Paul Jackson)

To find out more on the Centre and its future events, visit: https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/organisations/centre-for-the-advancement-of-racial-equality

‘Future Directions in History Teaching and Learning and the Role of the EMC’ – The East Midlands Centre for History Teaching and Learning AGM 2022 and Workshop

14th September 2022 – online event

The Northampton inaugural EMC AGM workshop and conference took place on Wednesday 14th September 2022.

The workshop was based around interactive sessions, discussion groups and panels. Topics and themes could be suggested by participants before the event, and voting took place for the topic of most interest to participants.

The aim of the event was to explore how the the EMC can best respond to the needs of its members in the face of the most pressing of contemporary issues of sustainability, inclusion and equality in History teaching, during the tenure of the University of Northampton as host.

This conference offered a space to discuss what the shift towards these new measures and strategies means for the History profession and for History degrees.

At the event, we looked at the audience-selected themes of PGR and Early Career Researcher experiences of teaching, the future of History degrees, and the development of the EMC in the coming years.

For information, please email caroline.nielsen@northampton.ac.uk

Conference: Post-War Anti-Fascism, the Radical Right and the Far-Right: Emotion, Culture and Identity

22nd April, Searchlight Archive and the University of Northampton History Department,