Centre for the History of People, Place and Community

Layers of London is a groundbreaking crowd-sourced mapping project that records the rich layers of London's heritage.

The Victoria County History is one of the world's longest-running research projects, exploring England's rich local history.

This course introduces learners to applied public history: understanding and interpreting the past today, and engaging diverse communities in the practice of making and sharing histories.

To celebrate the VCH's 120th anniversary in 2019, counties each filled a special VCH Red Box with objects which tell the history of their place.

In 2020-21 we collaborated with the Museum of Youth Culture as part of ‘Setting the Record Straight’, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Towns and the Cultural Economies of Recovery is an AHRC funded project (2021) to scope research priorities of culture, towns and economic recovery.

British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO) is a digital resource that offers new approaches to the history of trades and material culture.