News and Events

children at Carr Manor Primary School, Leeds listen to UCLan's Dr Alan Rice

Bringing slave trade history to life

UCLan academic and students present dramatic portrayal of the slave trade in Leeds primary school

Business Team in a Formal Meeting

'Building Links' 2010

Tuesday 2 March: 6.00pm - 8.15pm
An event for schools & colleges addressing sharing practices for supporting learners undertaking extended projects, and, enhancing practices through pedagogic research.

People's History Museum

Peoples History Museum

Find out about our work with the People’s History Museum and take advantage of this special partnership...

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Tim Curtis Memorial Lecture 2009

Thursday 19th November 2009 at 7.30pm, Greenbank Lecture Theatre, Free Admission
‘The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Elizabethan England: Affray and Murder in Nantwich, 19 December 1572’
Professor Steve Hindle, Warwick University

Preston is my Paris

Preston Is My Paris - Exhibition

Tuesday 27th October – Friday 30th October
An exhibition of photographic, found imagery and film

Stephen Caunce and Andrew Gritt pictured with the day book

History in the making

Appeal for Somerset residents to help unlock agricultural mystery

Former Army man Ray Sharkey

Army man marches to academic target

First class degree for mature history graduate

UCLan graduate Paul Charfe

Mature student graduates with flying colours

Single father changes life with UCLan degree

Wendy Webster

2010 Visiting Fellowship Award

Wendy Webster, from UCLan's School of Education and Social Science, has been awarded a 2010 Visiting Fellowship at the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.

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Collaborative Doctoral Awards Success

Dr Meredith and Dr Stewart have obtained a fully-funded PhD studentship in the Collaborative Doctoral Awards scheme of the Arts & Humanities Research Council.

Conference: Representations of the North West on Film and in Print

Conference: Representations of the North West on Film and in Print

May 2nd,
Time -10am to 4pm
Institute of Local and Family History Conference

Lynn Broster ( Fashion specialist at UCLan) Nicola Baxter, Danielle Smith, Rebecca Fowlis and Laura Gray (Harris Museum)

Unveiling the history of clothing design

UCLan students deliver study session for Preston College counterparts

Modern life

Leisure in a changing society since 1930

28th February 10am to 4pm

Members of the History group research team

Top of the world

UCLan’s world-rated research stars celebrate academic success

UCLan history students at the opening of their Preston Docks exhibition at the Ribble Steam Railway Museum.

Docks exhibition is full steam ahead

UCLan’s students create display detailing the rise, demise and re-birth of Preston’s Docks

people in a foyer

Community History Project

Exhibition Launch

Graduates Throwing Their Hats in the Air

Graduation Success

There was a good crop of first class degrees awarded to Historians this year