The Next Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society Presentation
Monday 12th May, 2025. 2:00pm. ZOOM. Free to members, for non-members a small donation (suggested £2) is appreciated. Resources for…
The Next FCELH Committee Meeting
Tuesday 29th April, 2025. 7:00pm. ZOOM.
The Next Surrey Heritage Presentation
Wednesday 23rd April, 2025. 5:30pm – 6:45pm. ZOOM. £6.00. Arsenic and Old Lace. A talk by Rachel Marsh. Join our…
The Next BALH Event
Tuesday 29th April, 2025. 7:00pm – 8:30pm. ZOOM. £5.00 (FREE for BALH members). A City of Flows?: Chester, 400-1500 This…
The Next IHR Centre for the History of People, Place and Community Event
30th April, 2025. 5:30pm – 7:00pm. ZOOM. FREE. Recording a Reformation: preserving the stories of closed church buildings. This event…
The Next Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Event.
Thursday 10th April, 2025. 7:30pm. Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH). FREE. Diet…
What’s On
Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions……… If you would like to have your events included here please email the details…
Peace and War : Friends Study Day
Saturday 5th April, 2025. 10:00am – 5:00pm. Thornby Hall and Naseby battlefield, Northamptonshire. £25 plus booking fee. Visit to Thornby…
Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society
Tuesday 22nd April, 2025. 7:00pm. All Saints Parish Church FREE for members. Special Event: The Ian Keil Memorial Lecture –…
The New Dishley Society Celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the Birth of Robert Bakewell of Dishley Grange, Loughborough
Friday 30th May, 2025. 7:30pm. Loughborough University. FREE. The Tercentenary Lecture will be given by Mr John Thorley OBE, FRAgS,…
Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference 2025: Creeds, Councils and Canons.
15th – 17th July, 2025. . University of Edinburgh. . Keynote speakers: 2025 is the 1700th anniversary of the Council…
Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society: Programme of Events
Thursday 9th January, 7.00pm: Pitts Room, Fearon Hall – Mollie Smith on Queen Henrietta Maria. An emblematic example of Early…
Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society Annual General Meeting
Thursday 3rd April, 2025. 7:00pm. Fearon Hall, Rectory Road, Loughborough LE11 1PL. FREE for members. The Annual General Meeting of…
Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society: Programme of Events
Wednesday 4 December 2024, 7:30pm – Humour in Genealogy – Chris Broom Wednesday 8 January 2025, 7:30pm – Missing from Home – David…
The Elizabeth Heyrick Society
Abolitionist, philanthropist and campaigner Elizabeth Heyrick’s (1769–1831) groundbreaking pamphlet, “Immediate, not Gradual Abolition,” shook the foundations of injustice, demanding an end to…
Elizabeth Heyrick (1769 -1831)
Elizabeth Heyrick was an abolitionist, social reformer and campaigner on a whole range of social issues. Born in 1769 in…
A new life for ‘British Printed Images to 1700’
The history of ‘the unruly sort of clowns’ and other early modern peculiarities from a post by Laura Sangha who…
Leicestershire Stories: Part 2.
By Jeremy Benson. Jeremy Benson has now completed Part 2 of his online Leicestershire Stories, which focuses on the Wars of…
Conversations in Graveyards: A Field Guide to the Social History of Memorials.
New on-line publication by Bob Trubshaw. This new publication by LAHS member Bob Trubshaw is now available online. As he…
Charles Phythian-Adams
Professor Charles Phythian-Adams was born on the 28th of July 1937, educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, and Hertford College, Oxford,…
University to honour pioneering archaeologist
The University of Leicester is to honour a pioneering female archaeologist by naming one of its academic buildings after her.…
The Making of the Lincolnshire Landscape Conference
Saturday 21st June, 2025. Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln. Call for papers This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the diversity of…
History (Local History) MA
Starts September 2025. 1 – 2 years full or part time. University of Leicester. UK £9550, International £18950. This course…
The British Records Association
The Nation’s Records Preserved, Accessed and Interpreted for the Benefit of All. The Association aims to initiate, encourage and support…
Winner of the Janette Harley Prize 2024
The British Records Association is delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 Janette Harley Prize: Dr Eliza Wheaton (editor), Loving and…
Professor Nicola Verdon BA, MA, PhD.
We sadly have to inform you of the death of Nicola Verdon who undertook the MA course in English Local…
Besieged: Warwick Castle and its People
Tuesday 8th April, 2025. 6:30pm. Great Hall, Warwick Castle £15. Revealing the untold story of Warwick Castle and its people…