The Next BALH Event
Tuesday 21st January 2025 7:00pm Breaking the Mold: Alberta Sturges, The Redefining of an American Heiress in the Gilded Age…
The Next IHR Centre for the History of People, Place and Community Event
Wednesday 22nd January 2025 5.30-7pm, Online – via ZOOM. From documenting dissent to mapping migration: communityheritage in action Alison Lloyd…
The Next CUH/CRLH Seminar
Friday 17 January, 3pm ‘Colonial City as an Austere City: Insights from Sanitary Modernization of Colonial Madras’ Dr Viswanathan Venkataraman…
The Next Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture.
Thursday 23 January 2025, Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, University of Leicester at 7:30 pm. ‘Fieldworkers and Fieldschools: discovering a…
What’s On
Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions……… If you would like to have your events included here please email the details…
The Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society Lecture Programme.
New Walk Museum, the usual venue for LAHS lectures, will be unavailable for some time due to building work. These…
BALH Events
Local Country Walks Through Colonial Britain Thursday 31st October 2024 7:00pm. Event type: Virtual The countryside is cherished by many…
Gdansk and the Hanseatic League.
Our new FCELH Chair, Anne Coyne, is a medievalist whose main area of research is the religious and mercantile history…
The Institute of Historical Research’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community
Winter/Spring 2025 Events Schedule Wednesday 22nd January 2025 5.30-7pm Online – via ZOOM From documenting dissent to mapping migration: communityheritage…
Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History Spring 2025 Seminar Series.
The Centre for Regional and Local History and Centre for Urban History have joined forces this year to present a…
Ice Age Journeys
Thursday 16 January 2025, Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, 7.30 pm ‘Ice Age Journeys – hunting the…
Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9.
The Maps Descriptive of London Poverty are the product of Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour In London (1886…
A Walk Through Leicester: Susanna Watts (1768-1842)
Leicestershire Archaeology and Historical Society guest blogger, John Parker, retraces the footsteps of Susanna Watts. Abolitionist, author, translator, and artist.
2025 Dissertation Prizes in Leicestershire & Rutland Archaeology and History.
Deadline for 2025 prizes: 31 December 2024. Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society awards four annual dissertation prizes for extended projects…
New Records on the Transatlantic Slave Trade added to the National Archives Catalogue.
As part of an ongoing project, over the last few months The National Archives has produced and released over 8,000…
Robert Bakewell of Dishley Grange (1725-1795).
Robert Bakewell was the fourth generation of a family of Leicestershire tenant farmers in Normanton-le-Heath. Originally husbandmen, they developed specialist…
Anthony John Mundella 1825-1897
Anthony John Mundella was born in Leicester on 28th March 1825. His mother was a local framework knitter called Rebecca…
‘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…
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…
Friends Newsletter 2024
The evenings are drawing in and the leaves are beginning to fall so it must be time for another Friends…
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…