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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 (page 5)

Spalding Gentlemen’s Society.

The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, one of the oldest learned societies in the Kingdom and the earliest provincial association for the…
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Posted on: 29 July 2024 Last updated on: 27 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Journeys into Genealogy: Podcast.

Julian Pooley : The Gentleman’s Magazine Listen to Julian Pooley as he joins Emma Cox on the Journeys into Genealogy…
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Posted on: 4 July 2024 Last updated on: 27 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Kate Tiller

We regret to advise of the death of a pioneer and trailblazer of local history, Dr. Kate Tiller, who sadly…
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Posted on: 4 June 2024 Last updated on: 27 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

The Rendlesham Project

Anglo-Saxon Life in South-East Sussex Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service is running a community archaeology project called “Rendlesham Revealed” from…
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Posted on: 14 May 2024 Last updated on: 25 October 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Susanna Watts

Colin Hyde’s presentation for Hoskins Day 2024 features Susanna Watts (1768–1842) who was a noted English abolitionist, author, translator and…
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Posted on: 9 May 2024 Last updated on: 25 October 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Hallaton Helmet

2000-year-old Roman cavalry helmet from Hallaton recreated thanks to a grant from Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. Harborough Museum’s replica…
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Posted on: 27 April 2024 Last updated on: 28 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Economies Past

Over the last 20 years, a team of historians at Cambridge have collected millions of records to build, for England…
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Posted on: 7 April 2024 Last updated on: 25 October 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

100 Ballads.

Top-of-the-pops from seventeenth-century England. Professor Christopher Marsh is a historian at Queen’s University, Belfast, whose work focuses on the social…
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Posted on: 10 March 2024 Last updated on: 25 October 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Andrew Hopper: Fellow of the Society for Army Historical Research.

Andrew Hopper, Professor in Local and Social History in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford (and…
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Posted on: 22 February 2024 Last updated on: 26 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Archives & Special Collections.

The University of Leicester Library has extensive collections of rare books, manuscripts, historical photographs, engraved portrait prints and personal archives;…
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Posted on: 22 February 2024 Last updated on: 25 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society – Grants and Prizes.

The Society was founded in 1855 “to promote the study of the history, archaeology, antiquities, and architecture of the county”,…
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Posted on: 30 January 2024 Last updated on: 28 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

1000 years of London’s History.

London Metropolitan Archives. LMA is a public research centre which specialises in the history of London, caring for and providing…
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Posted on: 29 January 2024 Last updated on: 26 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Did You Know – Society of Genealogists.

The Society of Genealogists possesses the largest family history research library in the United Kingdom, accessible to all members without…
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Posted on: 19 January 2024 Last updated on: 26 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Special Collections On-line.

Welcome to our online heritage collections, free and open to all. Building on our strengths in local, urban and industrial…
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Posted on: 18 January 2024 Last updated on: 25 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

English Local History Publications at The David Wilson Library.

The David Wilson Library holds an excellent collection of English local history publications on the 3rd Floor, accessible to those with…
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Posted on: 1 June 2023 Last updated on: 15 April 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Nichols Archive Project.

Julian Pooley, FSA,  Centre for Regional and Local History, University of Leicester. The papers accumulated and collected by John Nichols…
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Posted on: 2 May 2023 Last updated on: 24 October 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Views of England and Wales: an online collection.

At the end of March 2023 Library and Learning Services at the University of Leicester launched ‘Views of England and…
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Posted on: 14 April 2023 Last updated on: 26 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

English Local History Bibliographies.

You can now view and/or download PDF copies of CELH bibliographies for the years 1948-1998, 1999-2008 and 2009-2021 from our…
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Posted on: 27 March 2023 Last updated on: 26 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Friends Newsletters.

PDF copies of all Friends newsletters from issue 1 of 1989 to the latest issue are now available to view…
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Posted on: 13 October 2022 Last updated on: 26 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

FREE borrowing for Alumni at University of Leicester libraries.

It appears that Alumni have been added to the small number of local groups like Leicestershire NHS staff, Leicestershire teaching…
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Posted on: 23 July 2022 Last updated on: 27 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker
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