Friends Newsletter 2024
The evenings are drawing in and the leaves are beginning to fall so it must be time for another Friends…
FCELH Annual General Meeting 2024
The Friends of the Centre for English Local History AGM will be held on Tuesday 19 November 2024 at 19:00…
What’s On
Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions……… If you would like to have your events included here please email the details…
‘Provisions for the people: the food supply of Loughborough, 1851-1897’ by Dave Fogg Postles
This is part of Dave’s new book on the food supply of Loughborough and is available as a FREE download…
Medieval Settlement Research Group – AGM
Saturday 7th December, 2024, Attenborough Lecture Theatre 1, Main Campus, University of Leicester. Registration for this year’s MSRG AGM and…
The Wytham Project: Histories and Communities
The Wytham Estate was acquired by the University of Oxford in 1942, mainly as a gift, and is a site…
Beresford’s Lost Villages
A website dedicated to deserted medieval villages. This website is was made possible by a generous legacy bequeathed to the…
Hoskins Day Presentations
In answer to a request that the series of lectures be named after him, Professor Hoskins replied as follows: Stoke…
Monthly Updates
Every month we circulate by email an update on events, conferences, activities, publications, reports and Friends notifications to anyone who…
Being Human. Leicestershire Landmarks – Church Spires and their Builders
Wednesday, November 13 2024, 7:30 – 8:30pm, On-line, FREE. Organised by Elizabeth Tingle. Leicestershire was traditionally labelled a county of…
The Bishopric of the Middle Angles: Christianity and Early Medieval Leicester
The lecture will take place at 7.30pm on Thursday 12th December 2024, at the Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University…
Reinventing the town
Friday 1 November 2024, 3pm. How Colchester used the past in its place marketing activities in the long-nineteenth century‘ –…
Part-time qualifications in local history
Enrich and extend your knowledge of local history. Part-time local and social history courses concentrate on cultural and social aspects…
Church Monuments Society – All Hallows Lectures 2024
FREE on-line lectures via ZOOM. ‘Ghastly Grim’: the 17th Century Church Gateways of London – Dr Roger Bowdler, Saturday 16 November…
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure – Blogs
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure turns 60 this year. Since its founding in 1964,…
Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History Autumn 2024 Seminar Series
Thursday 5 December, 2pm – ‘Unpacking the Dryad ‘Handicrafts’ collection : towards a global movement of ‘arts and crafts’ in Leicester’…
The Professor Phil Batman Family History Prize
Centre for Regional and Local History. The Professor Phil Batman Family History Prize is awarded annually for outstanding work on…
Medieval Settlement Research Group Spring Conference 2025
Call for papers. The MSRG Spring Conference 2025 will take place over the weekend of 7-8 June at the University…
Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History Autumn 2024 Seminar Series
The Centre for Regional and Local History and Centre for Urban History have joined forces this year to present a…
Research your family history using the General Register Office
You can order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) to help you…
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe
Defoe’s ‘Tour’ was first published in three volumes between 1724-26 and is a vivid account of thirteen circuits or ‘journies’…