Friends of the Centre for English Local History Annual General Meeting 2025.
Tuesday 18th November, 2025. ZOOM. FREE. NOTICES will be sent out at least 21 days in advance. Probably 28 days…
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The Website of Chris Baker
This web site has been developed to act as a gateway to the various interests of Chris Baker and includes…
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…
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 of 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 £22.38 via Eventbrite. Join us for a…
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…
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 &…
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…
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…
Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, 28 July 1937 – 13 May 2025
A personal memoir by K.D.M. Snell. Charles Phythian-Adams, who has died aged 87, was educated at Marlborough College and came…
Black British history scholarship is established to honour historian and activist Len Garrison
Three postgraduates will be able study Black British history with the University of Leicester free of charge, thanks to a…
Educating Deptford: the Deptford Ragged School and its Place in the Community.
The Deptford Ragged School Archive is a heritage outreach project with a collection of objects which tell the history of…
Oxfordshire Record Society
The Oxfordshire Record Society was founded in 1919. In 2019, it celebrated 100 years of publishing primary sources for the…
New old maps from the National Library of Scotland.
With around two million cartographic items, the NLS map collection is the largest in Scotland and one of the largest…