What’s On
Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions………
05/07/2025 | Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | 170th Anniversary History Fair | Oakham Castle, Oakham LE15 6DR | ||
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7-8/06/2025 | Medieval Settlement Research Group | Spring Conference 2025: Adaptations: Medieval Responses to Environmental Change. | University of Leicester | More information here | |
22/05/2025 | British Association for Local History | Annual General Meeting | Virtual | More information here | |
13/03/2025 | Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | The life of a Roman soldier and the story of the last battle of Boudica AD 60/61 | Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH) | More information here | |
13/02/2025 | Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | 2025 LAHS Members’ Evening Members present their own research | Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH) | More information here | |
29/01/2025 | Surrey Heritage | Finding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life. The story of the British-born victims of the Nazi war on disabled people. A talk by Dr. Helen Atherton & Dr. Simon Jarrett | ZOOM | More information here | |
28/01/2025 | British Association for Local History | Finding historic Perth | Virtual | More information here | |
23/01/2025 | Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | Fieldworkers and Fieldschools: Discovering a Roman Settlement at Laughton | Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH) | More information here | |
21/01/2025 | British Association for Local History | Breaking the Mold: Alberta Sturges, The Redefining of an American Heiress in the Gilded Age | Virtual | More information here | |
15/01/2025 | Surrey Heritage | Oliver House: The story of a 16th century cottage. A talk by Sarah Pettyfer | ZOOM | More information here | |
12/12/2024 | Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | Leicester: an Anglo-Saxon diocese A talk by Thomas Vare, PhD student, University of Leicester | Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH) | More information here | |
07/12/2024 | Medieval Settlement Research Group | Annual General Meeting | Attenborough Lecture Theatre 1, Main Campus, University of Leicester. | More information here | |
05/12/2024 | Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | Anglo-Saxon settlement in Eye Kettelby | Fearon Hall, Rectory Road, Loughborough | ||
05/12/2024 | British Association for Local History | English merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities, c.1588–c.1765: BALH Dymond Lecture 2024 | On-line | More information here | |
05/12/2024 | Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series | ‘Unpacking the Dryad ‘Handicrafts’ collection: towards a global movement of ‘arts and crafts’ in Leicester’ Maria Chiara Scuderi (Leicester) | In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams (2pm) | More information here | |
29/11/2024 | East Midlands Oral History Archive | ‘More terraced housing in Leicester’ – workshop | Satta Hashem Hall, Leicester Adult Education Centre, Wellington Street, Leicester LE1 6ZG. | More information here | |
27/11/2024 | Surrey Heritage | The afterlives of executed bodies from Kennington Common. A talk by Dr. Anna Cusack | ZOOM | More information here | |
27/11/2024 | Church Monuments Society | ‘The Style of the Dead: Why Classicism so often gets the best Sepulchral Gigs’ – Alexander Stoddart (King’s Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland) | The Alan Baxter Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6BP, or online via ZOOM | More information here | |
23/11/2024 | Church Monuments Society | Faith, Hope, Charity and the Regular Solids: Imagery and Symbolism on Church Monuments – Dr Jean Wilson | ZOOM | More information here | |
22/11/2024 | Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series | ‘”One can hardly believe that a great city ever flourished in this spot”: the construction of ancient Memphis’ Dr Rober Frost (Leicester) | In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams (3pm) | More information here | |
19/11/2024 | Friends of the Centre for English Local History | FCELH Annual General Meeting | ZOOM | More information here | |
16/11/2024 | Church Monuments Society | ‘Ghastly Grim’: the 17th Century Church Gateways of London – Dr Roger Bowdler | ZOOM | More information here | |
14/11/2024 | Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | LAHS Annual General Meeting | Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH) | More information here | |
14/11/2024 | British Association for Local History | Must we starve” the written testimony of the English and Welsh Victorian Poor: 1834 to 1900 | Virtual | More information here | |
14/11/2024 | Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | Church-people and Social Change in 19th Century Leicestershire LAHS Member and Author Nick Miller | Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH) | More information here | |
14/11/2024 | Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series | ‘See the Carnival. See the Camera Man. See Yourself on the Screen’ – Dr Conner Scott (Leicester) | In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams (2pm) | More information here | |
13/11/2024 | Being Human Festival 2024 | Leicestershire Landmarks – Church Spires and their Builders | ZOOM | More information here | |
13/11/2024 | Surrey Heritage | Surrey Writers | ZOOM | More information here | |
01/11/2024 | Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series | Reinventing the town: How Colchester used the past in its place marketing activities in the long-nineteenth century – Dr Mike Sewell (Manchester Metropolitan) | In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams (3pm) | More information here | |
31/10/2024 | Church Monuments Society | Annual All Hallows Lecture: ‘Yet Nothing is more certaine than death, nor more uncertaine, than the houre theirof…’: – Cóilín Ó’Drisceoil (Office of Public Works, Ireland) | ZOOM | More information here | |
31/10/2024 | British Association for Local History | Local Country Walks Through Colonial Britain) | Virtual | More information here | |
30/10/2024 | Surrey Heritage | Behind the Scenes in Conservation – Tithe Maps | ZOOM | More information here | |
26/10/2024 | Nottinghamshire Local History Association | Nottinghamshire History Forum | Village Hall Ravenshead Nottinghamshire NG15 9BN | More information here | |
23/10/2024 | Surrey Heritage | Highclere Castle and its archive. A talk by David Rymill | ZOOM | More information here | |
18/10/2024 | Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series | Reimagining Leicester’s black spaces – Dr Sue Bishop (Leicester) | In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams (3pm) | More information here/ | |
17/10/2024 | British Association for Local History | Making the most of the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) | Virtual | More information here | |
17/10/2024 | Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | All Quiet on the Leicester Front? The US Military Race Disturbances of 1944 Vincent Holyoak, Part of Black History Month in Leicester. | Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH) | More information here | |
16/10/2024 | Friends of the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland | Tommy’s Mail – a talk by Peter Cousins | The Record Office, Long Street, Wigston LE18 2AH | More information here | |
12/10/2024 | British Association for Local History | BALH Conference: Maps and Buildings | St Andrew’s Church Hall, Kingston Road, Taunton, TA2 7SB | More information here | |
12/10/2024 | Surrey Archaeological Society | Local History Symposium : Medieval Surrey | Surrey History Centre 130, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6ND. | More information here | |
09/10/2024 | Surrey Heritage | From Patient to Professor. A talk by Dr. Dan Jacobson | ZOOM | More information here | |
08/10/2024 | University of York | York and the North: The Black Death, 1349-1373 a lecture presented by Professor Sarah Rees Jones, Department of History | ZOOM and in person at Room K/133, King’s Manor, Exhibition Square, University of York | More information here | |
05/10/2024 | Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society | LRFHS Golden Jubilee Celebration | Leicester Adult Education Centre, 54 Belvoir Street, Leicester LE1 5QL | More information here | |
03/10/2024 – THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED | Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series | ‘Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Peter Fryers Black History classic Staying Power’ Gaverne Bennett (Leicester) | THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED | THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED |
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