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History: Local

Your guide to History resources in Lancaster University Library
 
 
Inset from the map "The Countie Pallatine of Lancaster described and divided into hundreds, 1610" by John Speed.
 
John Speed was one of the best known English cartographers of the modern period, and he was the surveyor and originator of many of the town or city plans inset within them. His work helped to define early modern concepts of British national identity. (Wikipedia, 2023)
 

The Library's Map Collections

Regional Heritage Events

Local Heritage Weblinks

Explore our book collection in the Library!

Lancaster Through Time

A History of Lancaster

The Lands of Lancaster

Lancaster - A History

The Glocal Collection: Open for all to browse (A Floor)

Glocal Collection

The Glocal Collection is a physical collection curated in collaboration with Lancaster Black History Group to support community research through the Slavery Family Trees Project. It is both local and global in scope, and includes resources which show Lancashire’s connections to Atlantic Slavery, encouraging us to discover more about the histories of the places across the globe that Lancaster became connected to through its ties to the wider ‘slavery business’.

Slavery Unseen

Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism

Slavery in the Age of Memory

Documenting Dissent