Research your family history using the General Register Office
You can order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) to help you…
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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe
Defoe’s ‘Tour’ was first published in three volumes between 1724-26 and is a vivid account of thirteen circuits or ‘journies’…
University of Leicester Heritage Hub: Discover Heritage Family Event
Saturday 14 September 2024 Discover Heritage at the University of Leicester, David Wilson Library, University of Leicester, 11am – 4pm…
Business Archives Council
Founded in 1934, the objectives of the BAC are to: The Council produces an electronic newsletter and the past publication…
Nottinghamshire Local History Association’s Autumn Forum
Saturday 26th October 2024, 10am – 4pm, at Ravenshead Village Hall, 11 Vernon Crescent Ravenshead NG15 9BP, £9 members, £10…
What’s On
Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions……… If you would like to have your events included here please email the details…
The Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society Lecture Programme.
Please note the change of venue. New Walk Museum, the usual venue for LAHS lectures, will be unavailable for some…
Local and Place-Based Black British History
On 9 October 2024, 5:30PM – 7:00PM the Institute of Historical Research will hold a FREE on-line seminar via ZOOM…
Belgrave Hall
Belgrave Hall was built as a substantial family home between 1709 and 1713 by Edmund Cradock, a Leicester hosiery merchant,…
The Grass Roots of English History: Local Societies before the Industrial Revolution
This article is a review by Richard Hoyle of David Hey’s last, and posthumous, publication and is taken from Reviews…
Re-thinking English Local History
This article is a review by W B Stephens of the University of Leeds of Re-thinking English Local History by…
The Battle of Naseby 1645
The Battle of Naseby in Northamptonshire on 14 June 1645 was one of the most important battles of the English…
Welcome to All About That Place
What is All About That Place? A unique free learning event brought to you by the Society of Genealogists, the…
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is now fully Open Access.
From 21 August 2024, all TRHS articles will be published ‘open access’ and freely available to read online. This means…
Peace and War : Friends Study Day
Proposed Visit to Thornby Hall and Naseby Battlefield Tour. Saturday 5th April 2025. 1. Visit to Thornby Hall. Thornby Hall…
Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: beginnings and ends.
By RICHARD JONES and MARK PAGE. Published by Windgather Press in 2006. Reviewed by LAWRENCE BUTLER in The Antiquaries Journal…
Local History Symposium : Medieval Surrey
Saturday, 12 October 2024, 09:30 to 15:00, at Surrey History Centre 130, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6ND. Presented by Surrey Local…
Music in the Shadows: Staging Medieval Night Worship 800 – 1300
For the better part of a millennium, Christian religious communities across Western Europe awoke from their sleep each night to…
Music in the Shadows
Worksop Discovery Day and Night Liturgy, 31 August-1 September 2024. This research and public history event will take place at…
Visit to Ayscoughfee Hall Museum Saturday 21st September 2024.
Ayscoughfee Hall Museum and Gardens, Churchgate, Spalding PE11 2RA. Numbers are strictly limited book now to avoid disappointment. The visit…