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Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions……… If you would like to have your events included here please email the details…
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…
York and the North: The Black Death, 1349-1373
Presented by Professor Sarah Rees Jones (Department of History, University of York) on Tuesday 8 October 2024, 5.30pm to 7pm.…
All About That Place
All About That Place is a unique free learning event brought to you by the Society of Genealogists, the Society…
FCELH Annual General Meeting 2024
The Friends of the Centre for English Local History AGM will be held via ZOOM on Tuesday 19 November 2024.…
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…
BALH Conference: Maps and Buildings
Saturday 12th October 2024, 10:00am – 4:00pm. St Andrew’s Church Hall, Kingston Road, Taunton, TA2 7SB £20 (BALH members) £25…
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’…
Business Archives Council
Founded in 1934, the objectives of the BAC are to: The Council produces an electronic newsletter and the past publication…
Nottinghamshire Local History Association’s Autumn Forum
Saturday 26th October 2024, 10am – 4pm, at Ravenshead Village Hall, 11 Vernon Crescent Ravenshead NG15 9BP, £9 members, £10…
The Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society Lecture Programme.
Please note the change of venue. New Walk Museum, the usual venue for LAHS lectures, will be unavailable for some…
Local and Place-Based Black British History
On 9 October 2024, 5:30PM – 7:00PM the Institute of Historical Research will hold a FREE on-line seminar via ZOOM…
Belgrave Hall
Belgrave Hall was built as a substantial family home between 1709 and 1713 by Edmund Cradock, a Leicester hosiery merchant,…
The Grass Roots of English History: Local Societies before the Industrial Revolution
This article is a review by Richard Hoyle of David Hey’s last, and posthumous, publication and is taken from Reviews…
Re-thinking English Local History
This article is a review by W B Stephens of the University of Leeds of Re-thinking English Local History by…
The Battle of Naseby 1645
The Battle of Naseby in Northamptonshire on 14 June 1645 was one of the most important battles of the English…