Director:

Dr Andrew Walker
awalker@lincoln.ac.uk

Statement: Established in 2005, the Centre for Regional and Local History is devoted to the study of regional and local history in an international context; and to informing the history of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands by placing it in that wider setting. The Centre supports a range of publication and research activities, including The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies. A number of important day schools and conferences have been held under the auspices of the Centre, including, in 2007, the Northern Women’s History Day School and the international symposium Radical Cultures and Local Identities.

The Centre also has strong links with regional and local history in the East Midlands and Lincolnshire and co-operates closely with Lincoln Record Society, the Survey of Lincoln, and the new county museum. An annual local history conference is organised in association with the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology.

In recent years members of the Centre have supervised a number of postgraduate students who have successfully completed research degrees. Topics have included ‘Lincolnshire rural women workers’ and ‘The exercise of power: the case of Grimsby 1840-1900’. Current postgraduate research projects with a local and/or regional dimension include, ‘Lincolnshire population trends in the second half of the nineteenth century’, ‘Changing agricultural practice in twentieth century Lincolnshire’ and ‘Bishop Thomas Watson of Lincoln’.

Director:

Dr Ian Packer
ipacker@lincoln.ac.uk

Members:

Professor Krista Cowman
Dr Linda Bardill
Dr Kate Hill
Dr Ian Packer
Dr Pete Shinner