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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

Category: Talks

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…
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Posted on: 4 July 2025 Last updated on: 4 July 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Fashion and Folly.

Wednesday 6th August, 2025. 2:00pm – 4:30pm. Surrey History Centre, 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, GU21 6ND. £6. Tea and Talk…
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Posted on: 23 June 2025 Last updated on: 23 June 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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

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

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 &…
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Posted on: 21 June 2025 Last updated on: 23 June 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Wollaton Historical & Conservation Society

WHaCS have moved and updated their website recently and you can now access it either through our RESOURCES – USEFUL…
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Posted on: 18 June 2025 Last updated on: 23 June 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Edwardian Leicester.

Thursday 16th, October, 2025. 7:30pm. To be advised. Free. Cynthia Brown The Edwardian period in Leicester, loosely defined here as…
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Posted on: 1 June 2025 Last updated on: 22 June 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Scarborough Lecture: The Medieval Jewish Communities of the East Midlands.

Thursday 25th, September, 2025. 7:30pm. To be advised. Free. Dr Dean Irwin of the University of Lincoln. FURTHER DETAILS TO…
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Posted on: 11 April 2025 Last updated on: 29 May 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: 25 October 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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