Grace Dieu Priory
The Friends’ second outing for 2025 found us assembling at the Museum at Ashby-de-la-Zouch on a Saturday morning in late…
Author: John Parker
Friends Newsletter October 2025.
Welcome to the Friends Newsletter for 2025. This edition is packed with news and items of interest for the discerning…
Sceptred Isle: a new history of the 14th century.
Friday 7th November, 2025. 2:00pm – 3:00pm. Online. FREE. Join historian Helen Carr for a fresh look at a century…
Mick Aston Lecture: The Complex Lives of Medieval Ritual Objects.
Friday 28th November, 2025. 4:45pm – 6:15pm Online or Rewley House. . From £15. This lecture is in memory of…
Researching a War Memorial
Wednesday 12th November, 2025. 7:30pm. Oadby Granville Tennis Club. FREE to members.. From Oadby Remembers, Jan Bryars (Chair) and Sue…
Surrey Poor Law Union minute books.
The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 created a series of Poor Law Unions governed by Boards of Guardians. This system…
Oxford University Associate Professor in Social History publishes acclaimed new book on the Civil War.
Written by Dr Jonathan Healey, Associate Professor in Social History and Course Director for the Diploma in English Social and Local…
The Roman Small Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland.
Thursday 13th November, 2025. 7:30pm. Clephan 0.01, De Montfort University, Leicester. FREE. Presented by Peter Liddle, former county archaeologist. The…
Surrey Heritage Online Talks: At Home in History.
Wednesday 10th December, 2025. 5:30pm – 6:45pm. ZOOM. £6. Reflections on writing the history of domestic life. A talk by…
Surrey Heritage Online Talks: Celebrating R C Sherriff.
Saturday 8th November, 2025. 10:30am – 12:15pm. ZOOM. £6. November 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the…
The Lithic Studies Society Annual Conference 2025.
Friday 7th November, 2025. 10:00am – 5:00pm. Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL), LE1 5SN. See booking form.. The LSS annual conference…
The Nicola Verdon Memorial Fund
The Nicola Verdon Memorial Fund has been launched. It provides financial support to help early career researchers in agricultural and…
The Historian’s Craft and the VCH Spalding Project.
Saturday 15th November, 2025. 10:00am – 4:00pm. Spalding Baptist Church. Swan Street, Spalding, PE11 1BT.. FREE. The Victoria County History…
Rethinking Old English Toponyms.
Richard Jones, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester. The analysis of English place-names has, for the last ninety…
Oxford’s Black and Muslim migration stories.
Friday 7th November, 2025. 2:00pm – 4:30pm. Radcliffe Observatory QuarterWoodstock RoadOxford OX2 6GG FREE. Part of Oxford Community History Hub’s…
Responding to Modern Flooding: Old English Place-Names as a Repository of Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
This paper By Richard Jones results from research currently undertaken as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded Flood and flow: place-names…
Society for Museum Archaeology Conference 2025.
13th and 14th November, 2025. All day. Museum of Liverpool. £35 – £100. The conference celebrates the successes of Museum…
Leicester Cathedral Revealed: uncovering 2,000 years of history beneath the Cathedral Gardens.
Saturday 1st November, 2025. 10:00am – 4:30pm. Sir Bob Burgess Building, University of Leicester, Welford Road, Leicester, LE2 6BF. FREE.…
Almshouses: Past, Present and Local.
Robert doesn’t tend to advertise his talks (even though he does 60+ a year), but his latest subject is proving…
Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk.
Tuesday 4th November, 2025. 10:00am – 4:30pm. The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street London EC1M 6EL £35 – £55. Join the…