‘Between History and Memory: Writing Speculative Lives’ Joe Moran in conversation with Alison Light to mark the publication of her memoir, Red, Red Robin: My Long Goodbye to Home Thursday 22nd October 2026, 2.30pm, followed by a reception Book here (BetweenHistoryMemory.eventbrite.co.uk) In her latest book, Red, Red Robin, Alison Light tries to put herself into history, using sources from … Continued

Wednesday 11th November 2026, 6.00pm, followed by a reception. Speaker: Georgia Andreou (University of Southampton) Respondent: Kristin Hopper (Durham University) Book here (www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/64077/the-cost-of-sustainability-archaeology-and-maritime-dispossession-in-the-eastern-mediterranean ) Sustainability, commonly presented as a self-evident good, has been a prominent theme in the political and academic spheres. In the Eastern Mediterranean, a region characterised by both rapid heritage deterioration and … Continued

A lecture by Matthew Hilton, with comment from Aditya Chakrabortty 6.00pm followed by a reception Book here (PhotographingCalderValley.eventbrite.co.uk) How do we write histories of small towns in the post-1945 period? Towns such as Halifax in the Calder Valley feature little in an otherwise thriving historiography of contemporary Britain. Yet for an earlier generation of social … Continued

Railways: 200 Years that Transformed Britain will take place at Lancaster University on Saturday 21 November 2026, with the option to attend either in person or online. The conference is jointly organised by the Regional Heritage Centre and the Midland Railway Society, marking both the bicentenary of the birth of the railway and the 150th … Continued