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Friends of the Centre for English Local History

Friends of the Centre for English Local History

Promoting, supporting, and assisting the study of Local History as taught and practised in the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Leicester

Author: John Parker

Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society Journal

The December 2025 Journal should be with members very soon. Do you have a family history story which could be…
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Posted on: 30 November 2025 Last updated on: 30 November 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Project Editor/Coordinator Job Description: Spalding Victoria County History Group

The Spalding Victoria County History Group is a group of volunteer local history enthusiasts living in and around Spalding who…
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Posted on: 28 November 2025 Last updated on: 30 November 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Discover the British Civil Wars through 100 fascinating objects.

The National Civil War Centre, in partnership with The World Turned Upside Down, is proud to announce the publication of The…
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Posted on: 28 November 2025 Last updated on: 28 November 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Call for Papers: Conference Saturday 11th April 2026. 10am to 4.30pm.

St Mary’s Church, Wymeswold, Leicestershire. The Rev. Henry Alford, A.W.N. Pugin and the Restoration of St Mary’s Church, Wymeswold: ecclesiology…
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Posted on: 15 November 2025 Last updated on: 15 November 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

First World War Research Guides.

Explore expert research guides to help you uncover your family’s wartime past. Find practical tips for tracing military records, from…
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Posted on: 7 November 2025 Last updated on: 7 November 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

New Survey of India half-inch to the mile mapping, 1912-1951.

The National Library of Scotland has added online an additional 1,860 Survey of India maps, at the half-inch to the mile…
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Posted on: 5 November 2025 Last updated on: 7 November 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 28 October 2025 Last updated on: 23 November 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: 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…
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Posted on: 27 October 2025 Last updated on: 29 November 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 23 October 2025 Last updated on: 23 October 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 23 October 2025 Last updated on: 25 October 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 16 October 2025 Last updated on: 16 October 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 14 October 2025 Last updated on: 23 October 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 11 October 2025 Last updated on: 23 October 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 7 October 2025 Last updated on: 23 October 2025 Comments: 1 Written by: John Parker

Lieutenant Joshua Gregory (1790-1838): His Life in Context by Philip H. Marsh.

This book traces the family of Joshua Gregory, father of Sir August Charles Gregory who became Surveyor General of Queensland…
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Posted on: 26 September 2025 Last updated on: 27 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Geoffrey Bond and Thoroton Society Research Awards.

Application deadline extended. Geoffrey Bond, a life member of the Thoroton Society, has since the commencement of the Award generously…
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Posted on: 21 September 2025 Last updated on: 28 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

An appeal for information about Sydney J. Bunney, 1877-1928.

We have been contacted by Christopher Sidwell who is trying to find photographs of his late great-great-uncle the Coventry artist…
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Posted on: 18 September 2025 Last updated on: 27 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

CILIP Annual Awards.

CILIP Local Studies Group is asking for nominations for two of its annual awards. CILIP is the leading professional body…
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Posted on: 18 September 2025 Last updated on: 8 October 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

The 1789 French Revolution: not just a revolution in France.

October to December 2025. On-line. Free for HA members, £60 for non-members. HA short course  The French Revolution of 1789 was…
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Posted on: 11 September 2025 Last updated on: 6 October 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Rose de Verdun (d. 1247) and Grace Dieu Priory: Endowment Charter and Tomb.

by Nigel Tringham from Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 93. One of only a few houses of…
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Posted on: 20 August 2025 Last updated on: 28 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker
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