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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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…
Oxford Health Histories and Local Policy.
Friday 24th October, 2025. 2:00pm – 4:30pm. Museum of Oxford. FREE. Part of Oxford Community History Hub’s autumn events programme…
Marching Through Time: a workshop on the history of protest in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Friday 17th October, 2025. 2:00pm – 4:30pm. Museum of Oxford. FREE. Part of Oxford Community History Hub’s autumn events programme…
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…
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.…
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…
Volunteers Wanted for Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society.
LAHS is looking to recruit a number of volunteers for its editorial and committee roles. Hon. Co-Editor of the Transactions…
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…
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…
CILIP Annual Awards.
CILIP Local Studies Group is asking for nominations for two of its annual awards. CILIP is the leading professional body…
Friends of Charnwood Museum – Finds Day.
Saturday 4th October 2025, 2025. 10:00am – 3:00pm. Charnwood Museum. FREE. Have you found any small archaeological objects?Whether you are…
J L Petit – Painter.
An exhibition of Petit’s East Midlands paintings – Rutland County Museum, Oakham, August 23rd to October 4th, 2025. During his…
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…
Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum.
One of the most important cultural artefacts in the world will be displayed at the Museum from September 2026. More…
Blood in the Wear.
The Sunderland Sailors’ Strike and the North Sands Massacre of August 1825. Buried in the records of the Durham Assizes…
Dr. Robert Thoroton 1623-1678.
Nottinghamshire Antiquarian. Robert Thoroton was a country gentleman, descended from a long line of Thorotons, and lived at the family’s…
Friends of the Centre for English Local History Annual General Meeting 2025.
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 7pm, by…