Leicester History Festival 2022
Festival Line Up
Abir Mukherjee
Place, Time and Committing a Murder to Scratch an Itch: How crime fiction helped me make sense of my identity
Talk (Age 11+) - 10:45-11:45 - St Nicholas' Hall
Dr Julian Griffin
Otherness and Armchair Imperialism in the Eighteenth Century James Boswell and Travel Readers
Talk (Age 16+) - 11.00-11.45 - Recital Room
Anthony King
The 1000 Years Show!
Families! - 11.00-11.20, 14.20-14.40 and 15.10 - 15.30 - Library
Meet Samurai Joe
Japanese Samurai - weapons and myths.
Age 7+ - 11.30-12.00 - CG7
Bird on the Hand
Medieval Falconry
Families! - All day (birds in flight at 12.30 and 15.00) - Falconry Field
The Ferrers Household
15th century reenactment society of the Wars of the Roses
Families! - All day - Falconry Field
Michael Sheridan
Dealing with Dictators-Lessons from Hong Kong
Interview (Age 14+) - 12.00-13.00 - St Nicholas' Hall
Michael Sheridan is a former Sunday Times Far East Correspondent and recent author of ‘The Gate to China- A New History of the People’s Republic and Hong Kong’. Signed copies on sale in the foyer.
Mark Dawson
Food and the Tudors
Talk (Families!) - 12.00-12.45 - Recital Room
Jim Butler/Shruti Chakraborty
50 Years of Ugandan Asians in Leicester
Talk (Age 11+) - 11.30-12.15 - Library
A pop-up Exhibition on the Ugandan Asians will be on display in the foyer all day
Philip Pratt
Become a Roman archaeologist
Talk (Age 11+) - 11.30-12.15 - CG2
Frontline History
Life in World War One Trenches
Workshop (Families!) - 12.30-13.15 and 14.45-15.15 - CG7
Dr Teyhun Ma
Clash of Empires: Imperialism in China and its Legacies
Talk (Age 14+) - 13.15-14.00 - St. Nicholas' Hall
Catherine Ross and Lynda-Louise Burrell
The Caribbean Contribution to British Culture
Talk (Families!) - 13.15-14.00 and 15.15-16.00 - Recital Room
Dr Javad Hashemi
A picture of Afghanistan
Talk (Age 11+) - 12.30-13.15 - Library
Dr Amy Schofield
Fight like a Greek
Workshop (Families!) - 12.30-13.15 and 14.30-15.15 - CG2
Jeffrey Boakye
Musical Truth: History of Black Britain in 28 Songs
Talk (Age 11+) - 14.15-15.00 - St. Nicholas' Hall
Signed copies on sale by the author
Richard Ansett
Lynching in America
Talk (Age 14+) - 14.15-15.00 - Recital Room
WARNING: This session may cover some disturbing and sensitive material. Adult supervision recommended.
Richard Gibbons
Berlin and The Cold War
Talk (Age 11+) - 13.30-14.15 - Library
Historical School Ma’am McHugh
Toys through time
Workshop (Age 6+) - 13.30-14.15 - CG2
Samurai Joe
Write your name in Japanese Calligraphy
Workshop (Age 7+) - 13.45-14.30 - CG7
Archie Brown, University of Oxford
The end of the old Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the start of a new Cold War
Talk (Age 14+) - 14.45-15.45 - St Nicholas' Hall
Signed copies on sale in the foyer.
