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 time due to building work. These lectures and the LAHS AGM will therefore take place in the Rattray Lecture Theatre at the University of Leicester at 7.30 pm. Doors open 7 pm; refreshments available in advance of the lecture.
Thursday 26 September 2024
Scarborough Lecture – Women and Magna Carta
Sharon Bennett Connolly, FRHistS.
The lecture will look at those women who influenced Magna Carta, or lived through it – and those who used it to assert their rights. They include Matilda de Braose, Nicholaa de la Haye, Ela of Salisbury and Isabel d’Aubigny. Sharon is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the best-selling author of five non-fiction history books including Heroines of the Medieval World; Silk and the Sword: the women of the Norman Conquest; and Ladies of Magna Carta: women of influence in thirteenth century England.
Thursday 17 October 2024
All Quiet on the Leicester Front?: the US military race disturbances of 1944.
Vincent Holyoak, Head of Environmental Management, Historic England.
This lecture is part of Black History Month 2024.
Thursday 14 November 2024
LAHS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – FOLLOWED BY LECTURE
Churchpeople and social change in 19th century Leicestershire
Nick Miller, Professor Emeritus, University of Newcastle
Thursday 12 December 2024
Leicester: an Anglo-Saxon diocese
Thomas Vare, PhD student, University of Leicester
