Researching your BRICK-MAKING ANCESTORS – a solid trade by Dr. Sadie McMullon
This NEW BOOK focuses on the people involved and covers specific brick-making areas, guiding you through extensive records thus providing…
Author: John Parker
2025-26 short courses at Oxford Lifelong Learning.
Explore the short courses on offer. These open-access short courses run online or in-person, with some offered in both formats –…
The Car Makers of Cowley
Check out the webpage for the recently-launched project, ‘The Car-Makers of Cowley‘, which is delving into the history of car…
Votes for Women – Everywhere: 1866-1928
Wednesday 8th October, 2025. 7:00pm – 8:00pm. Virtual. £5 non member. It took 62 years of campaigning for all women…
Friends for the Centre for English Local History – Autumn Visit to Grace Dieu Priory and Ashby Museum.
Saturday 27th September, 2025. 10:00am – 4:30pm. Ashby Museum and Grace Dieu Priory £20. Join us for a visit to…
Borough of Twickenham Local History Society
The Borough of Twickenham Local History Society focuses on the history of Twickenham, Whitton, Teddington and the Hamptons all of…
Becoming Ipswich: Urban emergence in Britain’s oldest town with Dr Brandon Fathy.
Thursday 7th August, 2025. 6:00pm – 7:00pm. Microsoft TEAMS. FREE. This is a FREE event open to University of Leicester…
Fashion and Folly.
Wednesday 6th August, 2025. 2:00pm – 4:30pm. Surrey History Centre, 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, GU21 6ND. £6. Tea and Talk…
Beginning your Family History.
Wednesday 30th July, 2025. 10:30am – 11:45am. Online Zoom talk. £6 Recent years have seen a huge growth of interest…
“Mrs Dalloway” at Woking.
Monday 30th June, 2025. 7:00pm – 9:00pm. Surrey History Centre, 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, GU21 6ND. FREE booking essential. Virginia…
Society for Medieval Archaeology Conference 2025
13th and 14th September, 2025. 900am – 5:00pm. Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester. Fresh thinking and new ideas in the archaeology…
Oxford Lifelong Learning
From 25 June 2025 courses delivered by the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford will come under…
Magna Carta in the Thirteenth Century
Thursday 25th September, 2025. 12:30pm. 40 Northampton Rd, London EC1R 0HB. £5.00. Join Jessica Nelson, Head of Collections Expertise &…
Leicestershire History Magazine
Leicestershire History is a new 52-page full colour magazine about the many events, objects, people and places from the city…
Wollaton Historical & Conservation Society
WHaCS have moved and updated their website recently and you can now access it either through our RESOURCES – USEFUL…
The 2025 Cameron Lecture: Lost Villages, Lost Names?
Friday 19th September, 2025. 7:00pm. A48 Sir Clive Granger Building, University of Nottingham. FREE. The Cameron lecture 2025 will be…
The British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies Archive
The British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies Archive is based in the School of Archaeology and Ancient…
Leicestershire and Rutland Festival of Archaeology
5th July to 3rd August, 2025. . . The Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology, part of the Council for…
Edwardian Leicester.
Thursday 16th, October, 2025. 7:30pm. To be advised. Free. Cynthia Brown The Edwardian period in Leicester, loosely defined here as…
Hidden Histories – An UnCivil War.
An exploration of the first English Civil War through its impacts on the people of Leicester and Leicestershire. In this…