To commemorate 350 years since the Great Fire of Northampton, we have a special display on the Lower Mall at Grosvenor Shopping.
📅 The display is open until Monday only.
🧡 The anniversary celebrations finish this weekend with fire-themed events in the Market Square.
It's depressing to see well respected historians defend Rylan. He repeated unsubstantiated & demonstrably untrue far-right talking points on national TV. Then tried to take the moral highground & point the finger at people correctly calling him out.
This will just embolden them.
What does 'marginalised' mean in British history? 💬
Visiting Fellow @UniNorthants Dr Liam Liburd has kickstarted the 1st session of a two-day conference - 'Voices of the Marginalised in History'.
More details here - and it's not too late to come along! https://t.co/AEgy9AI1on
I will be presenting a paper based on some of my PhD research - 'Convict Voices: Extracting the Experience of the Marginalised Convict Population from Archival Sources' - as part of the Marginalised in History conference at the University of Northampton
https://t.co/HFMujJElkc
From first hand accounts of the Great Fire of Northampton, to the signatures Henry VIII & Elizabeth I, the Northamptonshire Archives Service safeguards the county's most important historic records.
Its work has been recognised with national accreditation https://t.co/NQxX228wuU