Centre for the History of People, Place & Community

@chppc.bsky.social

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Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.

Philip with the group in Senate House cloister
Participants explore one of the Water Maps
Photo of the exhibition featuring a range of historical sources, crocheted plague rats, and embroidered microbes
Catherine and Crystal look at materials
Info at https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/ihr-london-summer-school-26-sickness-health
Dr Justin Colson welcomes participants
https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/keene-london-lecture-26-black-death-london
Three Discovery Courses on Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place Townscape and Architecture in History Archaeology for Local History: Living in a Material World https://www.history.ac.uk/study-training/research-training-short-courses
https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/ihr-london-summer-school-26-sickness-health
Graffiti Project Toolkit - screegrab of first page via the link
https://www.history.ac.uk/study-training/research-training-short-courses
Burn marks on wood, Merchant Adventurers Hall, York
A card showing the dates of IHR's June summer school with a 10% discount if booking takes place before January. There are images from wood block prints and photographs from past epidemics in London.
From the Black Death to the Covid-19 pandemic, from medieval medicine to public health across the centuries, from hospitals to archives and collections and from the politics of wellbeing to the ethics of researching our very recent history....Join us to discover London’s histories of disease, care and cure through lectures, workshops, trips and visits. This course is suitable for anyone seeking to develop their historical knowledge or skills and discover history, from researchers and students, to heritage professionals and all those with a personal interest in history. Joining an IHR short course is a way to get involved in the IHR community, and we encourage all participants to become members of the IHR Library. 22-26 June 2026, IHR, Senate House, London 10% discount with code HEALTH10 https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/ihr-london-summer-school-26-sickness-health
Discovery Course 1 Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/celebrating-local-place-based-history-westmorland-250th-vch-big-red-book#:~:text=Event%20information%3E&text=In%20September%202025%2C%20the%20UK's,and%20community%20history%20more%20widely.
Info at: https://www.history.ac.uk/ihr-london-rebels
Names & dates of all events. You can find all the info here https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/people-place-and-community
Event information, also available at https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/ihr-derek-keene-london-lecture-2025-think-punk-overused-word-matter-fact-london-england-1975-76
Info about the date, title, speakers & location of the CHPPC spring 2025 seminar series. All this info can be found on the internet here https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/people-place-and-community
Titles & dates for the CHPPC’s 24-25 bets series. You can find this info at https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/people-place-and-community
Information about the event mentioned in the tweet. All info can be found here https://www.history.ac.uk/events/local-place-based-black-british-history
Poster for event. Event details available at https://www.history.ac.uk/events/place-based-histories Image of a hand placing pins into a map.
Table with information about the date, title, speakers & locations of seminars. All this info is available at https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/people-place-and-community
Information about the speakers, seminar titles & dates for seminars in term 2. All the info is available via https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/people-place-and-community
See info at https://blog.history.ac.uk/2023/09/co-producing-histories-of-place/