CHPPC Training & Events Archive

CHPPC Training Minis

CHPPC Training Minis

These ‘Training Minis’ are short videos on particular topics linked to the work of the CHPPC and our projects, such as the Victoria County History.

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MOOCs - free short courses in the humanities

Applied Public History: Places, People, Stories

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 his

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MOOCs

Free online short courses in the humanities.

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Events 2024/25

Place-based histories beyond the academy

Place-based histories are increasingly important in the context of the levelling-up agenda and community history priorities

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Using archival research in the heritage sector

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‘Placed’ community and public history in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland

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From documenting dissent to mapping migration: community heritage in action

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Ethical Community History

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Recording a Reformation: preserving the stories of closed church buildings

The Sacred Landscape project at the University of Saint Andrews was established to record the impact of changing religious landscapes, most notably the closure of church buildings

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Events 2023/24

Global Threads: Co-producing histories of international networks

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Watery Archives: researching the floods of the past alongside the communities of the present

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Wiltshire Victoria County History Volume 20 - completing a Red Book in difficult times and making new links with local communities

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Digital Community Archiving 

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Co-producing at Historic England: A showcase of community-driven heritage projects

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Same roots, different routes: stories of Palatine heritage & homemaking in Irish and American post-migration landscapes

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James Smetham (1821-1889): co-producing histories of personal and spiritual place

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Symbolising Lace: on recognisability and visibility of lace as heritage craft in Shetland and Haapsalu landscapes

Creative practice, community, and the street: creative co-productions of place-based identities

Collaborative Research in the Digital Age: Crowdsourcing the Get to Know Medieval Londoners Project

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Productive Historical Discomfort: generating dialogue through uncomfortable walking tours

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Does it have the “it” factor?: Understanding how local landscapes influenced castle-siting decisions

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Events 2022/23

Urbanism – the past, present and future of a movement

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Mapping Community Histories: Jewish London and Historical Walks

This seminar is one of the results of the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community’s first paid internships, which took place in the summer of 2021.

Civic Pride (Or Shame)

New ideas, new buildings, same old Porridge? England’s 20th Century Prison Architecture

Creative Repurposing: Heritage Assets in Urban Renewal

Another Country: how the English parish shaped a nation

If nations are ‘imagined communities’, how has the idea of ‘parish’ contributed to our shared sense of identity and belonging?

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London Unseen: ‘trails and tribulations’ in community heritage and the public realm

Freedom Seekers: histories and stories of escaping from slavery in early modern London

The ‘clay-pit zone’: brickfields and the townscape of nineteenth century London

Decomposition / Recomposition: muddy, oozy spaces of estuary, fen, sea floor, and tideline

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Events 2020/21 & 21/22

Harnessing the Extraordinary History of the English Seaside

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Levelling up: Histories, Cultures, Challenges

What might a cultural history of Levelling Up tell us about the new political narratives being shaped around this agenda?

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‘Deep mapping’ estate archives: exploring new digital methods for analysing estate landscapes, c.1500-1930

Connections between land and power were most clearly expressed through the estates of the gentry and aristocracy in the British Isles c.1500-1930.

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Celebrating the industrial past: Regional commemorations of British railways

This paper will examine the ways British railways have and continue to be celebrated by communities with regional connections to this industry’s history

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Viæ Regiæ: Mapping the Transport Network of England & Wales, 1540-1660

Adam Chapman (IHR) were joined by Stephen Gadd (Independent Researcher) and Colin Greenstreet (Independent Researcher), as they discussed a new project

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The Museum of Youth Culture: Setting the Record Straight

On the 27th January Catherine Clarke (IHR) was joined by Eleanor Barnett, Jamie Brett, Lauren Eglen, Lisa Der Weduwe and Jamal Langley.

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An Introduction to the Records of Early English Drama: Civic London 1558-1642 Project

On the 13th January 2021; Tracey Hill (Bath Spa University) and Charlotte Berry (Bath Spa University) delivered a seminar on An Introduction to the Records of Early English Drama

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People, Place and Community Seminar: Challenging histories? Collaboration, community & remembering the bits ‘best’ forgotten

On the 25th November 2020; Mike Esbester (University of Portsmouth) delivered his seminar on Challenging histories? Collaboration, community & remembering the bits ‘best’ forgotten

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People, Place and Community Seminar: Policing Late-Victorian Lambeth: a police constable's notebook

The Metropolitan Police force, established in 1829, was the largest in Britain and grew steadily throughout the later 19th century

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People, Place and Community Seminar: Bloomsbury Blues: Commemorative Plaques Around the University of London, an online tour

Discusses the people and places so marked, as well as the how, why and when they came to be commemorated

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People, Place and Community Seminar: Colonial Countryside: Lessons Learned, Insights Gained

Colonial Countryside is a child-led history and writing project funded by HLF and ACE in partnership with the National Trust

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People, Place and Community Seminar: Local Histories of Lockdown

In the context of the global Covid-19 pandemic, spring 2020 saw ‘lockdown’ across the UK

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Online Engagement Masterclass: with Layers of London

An workshop on effective online engagement, hosted by staff from Layers of London - the IHR's collaborative digital mapping project

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Virtual VCH: An Online Mini-Conference

Held in June 2020, this half-day conference showcased research projects taking place across the VCH community, with guides to researching local history online.

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Red Boxes Gallery

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.

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People, Place and Community

An events series hosted by the IHR's Centre for the History of People, Place and Community.

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