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Dudley White Local History Lecture: "Debating the Politics of Religion in Elizabethan Essex", Dr Neil Younger (Department of History, University of Essex), Thursday 6 December 2012, 7.00-8.00 pm, Colchester Campus. For more details, see the Dudley White Lecture poster, or contact the Department of History.
New Local History Modules for 2012-13 with New Family History pathway ... details here
The main aim of the Centre is to provide a forum for research and teaching in the history of Essex, Suffolk and East Anglia, and for exploring our local region as a site for the study of national and global trends and processes. We are also interested in how the methods of doing local and regional history can be applied in widely divergent local geographic contexts across the world. We offer a high quality programme of post-graduate provision in local and regional history at taught MA level and also at research degree level (MA by dissertation, MPhil and PhD). We also offer a Certificate of continuing Education in Local Historical Studies and a variety of short evening-taught courses in history and archaeology which are open to members of the general public and which require no prior qualifications. We also run an annual Local History Day and hold an annual lecture, the Dudley White Local History Lecture, which are open to anyone who is interested in attending. There are excellent local history resources at the Albert Sloman Library of the University of Essex, most notably the archive of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History, and we are also well-situated for access to the Local Studies Library in Colchester and the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford.