Two thirds of Leeds's famous Kirkgate Market was destroyed by a blaze on 13 December 1975.

Firefighters interviewed for first time about iconic Leeds fire

Fifty years after a fire raged through Kirkgate Market in Leeds, Laura Reid hears about a heritage project telling the stories of firefighters who were on the scene.

Women in the Leeds Auxiliary Fire Service: Fighting fires and gender discrimination in the wartime fire station.

For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

We are a group of people affected by the horrific Summerland fire, even fifty two years after this tragedy occurred. Our aim is to overturn a miscarriage of justice by exposing the truth.

Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity

The Urban Commons:Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4-5 September 2025, University of Leicester Registration is now open for the Urban History Group’s 2025 co…

Space2 is an award winning arts and social change charity, based in inner East Leeds. We are a small organisation that punches above our weight, with co-production principles at the heart of all we do...

In 1908, the Warsaw Politseimeister General Meier got into an argument with the city’s president, Alexander Miller. The proverbial bone of contention was the responsibility for the sanita…

Editor’s note: In anticipation of what we all believe will be a stellar UHA conference this October 9-12 in Los Angeles, we are featuring Los Angeles as our theme this month. This is our fifth post…