Simon Gunn, Erika Hanna and Krista Cowman spoke about their contributions to this book at #UHG2025 a few weeks ago. Very excited to see this out soon 👇

I’m hearing one academic department has over-recruited 500 students. Double the planned number and not enough staff to teach them. Whilst another department has recruited 2 students even after clearing. Who is going to sort out the shitshow that is UK HE?

The Vaughan City Explorers are meeting next on 17 August at 12 noon. They will be exploring the Welford Road Cemetery. Meet outside the side gate on University Road opposite Mayors Walk. It's the gate with the opening times next to it.

Our Exhibition Visitors Discovery Circle will be meeting on 1 August to see 'The Lives We Lead: Who We Were, Who We Are'. Meet in in the former cafe area at 1pm. vaughan.coop/the-vaughan-...

🎉 From our 50th anniversary conference 🌏 Lynn Hollen Lees, 'Making the global turn matter: strategies and pathways' 🧑‍🎨 @drlucyfaire.bsky.social, Denise McHugh & Chris Williams, 'Making manifestos for urban history: creative collaboration in a conference workshop'

I was an external examiner for York's Centre for Lifelong Learning. It has done some really fantastic courses. So sorry to see that it is closing.

Our next Forum is on June 12 at 6.30pm. Dr Ann Stones will be talking on 'Medieval Charnwood Forest: Wasteland or Wonderland?' Time: 6.30-7.45pm Location: Leicester Adult Education College Tea and cake from 6.15pm Find out more about this forum using the link below: vaughan.coop/course/june-...

I love the fact the Vaughan Exhibition Visitors Discovery Circle means I get to see things I generally never would. And it's really interesting to hear other's views on what we have seen.

Today! 15 May "'Fix your tent’: Returning colonials at home in England, Bedford and other habitats c1870-1914", a talk by Dr Denise McHugh When: 6.30-7.45pm; tea and cake from 6.15pm Where: Leicester Adult Education College vaughan.coop/course/may-f...

Reminder! Our May forum is this week. More details below👇 #history #History #ColonialHistory

For those interested in curious history! If you have a spare hour on Tuesday evening this is great talk. It's online and the donations raised go to good causes. (The recommended donation is £3-4).

This Sunday (13th April) the Vaughan City Explorers will be meeting to explore Humberstone Gate. We'll gather in the Phoenix Arts Café at 2pm before going out to explore. No need to book - just come along and join us!

This is the ALCS petition protesting Meta's use of LibGen, pls sign too

This evening! Dr Kate Moore is talking bird conservation and management at our April Forum. Join us at the Leicester Adult Education College on Belvoir street: 6.15pm for tea and cake, 6.30pm for the talk. #ornithogology #leicester #birds vaughan.coop/course/april...

This Thursday at 6.30pm a talk on bird conservation. A suitable topic for Spring! More details below.

Tonight! Our March Forum: Roots and Routes: A Resistant Reading of Family History. Online at 6.15pm. www.tickettailor.com/events/leice...

For those into family history and/or revealing the histories of the marginalised.

The Vaughan City Explorers are meeting this Sunday, 9 March, at 2pm. Gather in the Phoenix Arts Café area before going out to explore Leicester's Cultural Quarter. No need to book - just turn up!

Enjoyed presenting some scattered thoughts at the launch of Philip Howell's book 'Pub' (Bloomsbury) - a great pocket paperback exploring the components and relationships that can go into shaping this complex place. A very accessible mix of history, politics, and anecdote.

Today!👇

WE HAD CLOSED OUR BROWSERS, GUYS. At this point, UCEA and UUK should just start springing us some coins to make up for the number of times they make us update The List and the consequent hours spent. Only mid-way through February, the dust from UCAS isn't fully settling yet... 😵‍💫

I like to think that the aim of a university education is that it enables students to be better at the subject they have chosen and meet the grades. Surely that's what teaching is about?

Our 'Urban Explorers Discovery Circle' [working title] is having its first meeting this week. It'll be on 23 January at 5pm at the Old Library Café in the Adult Education College on Belvoir Street. Come along and help decide the aims and running of this group - and perhaps a new name for it!

Miriam Gill and I have written this article on the state of higher adult education, the setting up of Leicester Vaughan College and its continuing search for accreditation.

Directors Miriam Gill (secretary) and Lucy Faire (chair) have written a reflective account of setting up Leicester Vaughan College and our search for accreditation within a hostile higher education climate. It's open access - you can read it here 👇 www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...

A poster for ‘The Offence’ just drifted past on the timeline which means I need to share this again. 👇 precastreinforced.co.uk/2022/07/16/u...

Our annual general meeting is on 29 January 2025 at 7pm. Please can our Members check their inbox for details about the meeting, the agenda and minutes of the 2024 AGM? Not sure if you are a member? Please contact us. New members are also welcome! Please sign up before 6pm on 29 January.

Along with Cecilia Bembibre I’ll be talking about how to use smell to engage people with collections (natural history or otherwise) at this event in February. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-...

'Housing as if people mattered.' My book, 'Middlefield: A postwar council estate in time', available here: colinsackett.co.uk/middlefield....

Exhibition Visitors Discovery Circle will meet for the first time on Jan 10 at 1pm in the Soft Touch Arts Café on New Walk. It will work out the format for the group and visit the Dryad Basketry: A Global Collection. If you are interested, please join us! www.leicestermuseums.org/Dryad-Basketry

TONIGHT! ‘Researching the Opposition to the Civil Rights Movement’ Presented by Dr Bradley Phipps Free and online 6.15pm Sign up using to get your joining link www.tickettailor.com/events/leice...

Our Vaughan Supper is one week today, 29 October from 7.00pm. If you are planning on joining us it would help us enormously if you could get your tickets ASAP. This is because we need to give numbers to the restaurant. You can get tickets here: vaughan.coop/course/vaugh...

It was a fun evening last year at the @vaughancoop.bsky.social Supper even for those of us doing the organising!

So many possibilities!

I'm excited by the possibilities of #DiscoveryCircles. It'll be interesting to see what ideas people come up with. Hoping there will be a couple I can join. A great opportunity for #AdultEducation and #CooperativeLearning!

Our next forum is on Thurs 16 May at Leicester Adult Education College. Art therapist and textile artist, Vicky Cutler, will talk about using object-repair to help mend the self. Tea and cake 6pm; talk from 6.15pm. #Repair #Art_Therapy #Self_care #AdultEd #Creative vaughan.coop/course/may-f...

Can you help the @thegazettecoop.bsky.social keep accessible for all its readers?

This Thursday @ 6pm! Our April Form: 'The Great Central Gazette: Are co-operatives the answer to the crisis in local journalism?' With Emma Guy, founder member & commissioning editor of @thegazettecoop.bsky.social #Leicester's very own #cooperative newspaper. www.tickettailor.com/events/leice...

Our next #VORF is on April 11, 6.15-7.30 pm. Rhys Everquill, Managing Editor of Leicester's independent Great Central Gazette @thegazettecoop.bsky.social will discuss why he helped set up the co-operative, its origins, and the challenges facing local media. More info: vaughan.coop/course/april...

For international women’s day we remember the role of Margaret Vaughan. Margaret was the wife of David Vaughan, founder of Leicester’s Working Men’s College in 1862. She was considered a co-founder of the college- both their portraits were in the first Vaughan College. Thread 1/8

**Today** Our Open Forum will be a cooperative session as we work together to create manifestos for the future of adult education. The session starts @ 6pm and will be in the Adult Education College on Belvoir Street, Leicester. All welcome! vaughan.coop/course/march...

Join us for a creative, in-person Forum on 7 March, 6.00-7.30pm. We will be making manifestos for adult education. What do you want #AdultEd to look like? A great chance to be as creative about an important issue as these suffragette women! vaughan.coop/course/march...

Our next forum is on 7 March @ 6pm. It features shiny stickers, interesting conversations, cake and lots of fun. Join us in 'Making manifestos for adult education'. What would you like the future of adult education to look like? vaughan.coop/course/march... #AdultEd #Creative

Fascinated by the sheer matter-of-factness of this story buried on page 8 of The Liverpool Daily Post, 29 March 1937 – “Ellen the barmaid is now Alan the barman.” Please update your address books. Now, what’ll you have?