National Council for Voluntary Organisations
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) is the umbrella body for the voluntary and community sector in England. It is a…
Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society: Resources for Family History Research in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Monday 12th May, 2025. 2:00pm. ZOOM. Free to members, for non-members a small donation (suggested £2) is appreciated. The Society…
What’s On
Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions……… If you would like to have your events included here please email the details…
Professor Prashant Kidambi, Inaugural Lecture: Thinking with the City.
Wednesday 4th June, 2025. 5:30pm – 6:30pm. Sir Bob Burgess Building – Lecture Theatre 2, University of Leicester FREE. Hello…
Rewley House Lecture Series: The British Imperial Way of Warfare
Tuesday 10th June, 2025. 4:30pm. Rewley House, Oxford, or online. FREE. The British Way of Warfare has become a point…
Jean Townsend on London’s Lost Jewels: The story of the Cheapside Hoard.
Thursday 5th June, 2025. 7:00pm Pitts Room, Fearon Hall. £5.00 non-members/ free to members. Jean Townsend is a social historian…
Oxfordshire Record Society
The Oxfordshire Record Society was founded in 1919. In 2019, it celebrated 100 years of publishing primary sources for the…
Nottinghamshire Names Day: The University of Nottingham
Saturday 14th June, 2025. 10:00am – 5:00pm. A48 Clive Granger Building, University Park Campus, University of Nottingham. £10 (waged), £5…
New old maps from the National Library of Scotland
New online! View more than 100 maps of Great Britain and the wider world, as part of the Signet Library map collection (1640s–1930s). …
Prof. Prashant Kidambi
Prashant Kidambi is Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester. His research explores how modern South Asia was…
Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society – Honest Men But Destitute :The Plight of Leicestershire’s Framework Knitters
Wednesday, 11th June, 2025. 7:30pm. Friends’ Meeting House, 16 Queen’s Road, Leicester, LE2 1WP. A talk by Jess Jenkins Doors…
Casino Royale: The Rise and Fall of the de Beaumont Earls of Leicester.
Explore Norman England from 1066-1204 through the lives, events and intrigues of the first four Earls of Leicester. The 12th…
Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Dissertation Prizes 2026
2026 Dissertation Prizes in Leicestershire & Rutland Archaeology and History Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society awards four annual dissertation prizes…
Medieval Settlement Research Group Spring Conference 2025.
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th June, 2025. All day. Attenborough Lecture Theatre 1, University of Leicester. For fees see below.…
The Phythian-Adams Award
Undergraduate awards 2025 Named in honour of Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, former Director of the Centre for English Local History, the…
Scarborough Lecture: The Medieval Jewish Communities of the East Midlands.
Thursday 25th, September, 2025. 7:30pm. Gaulby Parish Church, LE7 9BE. Free. Dr Dean Irwin of the University of Lincoln. FURTHER…
The Pilgrims’ Way – a presentation by Mike Burton
Thursday 22nd, May, 2025. 7:30pm. Gaulby Parish Church, LE7 9BE. Free. Mike Burton, former journalist and teacher, takes a journey…
The Centre for Regional and Local History
Dedicated to the study of regional and local history throughout England and Wales, the Centre for Regional and Local History…
The Centre for Urban History
The University of Leicester has been an international pioneer of urban history since the 1960s and has been associated with…
Urban History Group Conference 2025.
4th & 5th September, 2025. All Day. University of Leicester. The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from…
What is a town?
By Dr. Joe Chick who is a Research Associate in Medieval History currently working on the ENDURE project run by…
Parish and Belonging
Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales 1700 – 1950 Keith Snell, published by Cambridge University Press in 2002.…
Exploring Medieval Place and Society through Local History.
Wednesday 11th, June 2025. 5:00pm – 6:00pm. Rewley House,1 Wellington Square,Oxford,OX1 2JA. FREE. Join Dr Simon Townley for the next talk in the…