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[April 22, 2026] WHaCS – AGM followed by Anja Thompson-Rohde on Coins as the First Social Media
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St Leonard's Community Centre, 4 Bramcote Lane, Nottingham, NG8 2ND
How messages contained in the portraits and symbols on coins acted in the past to spread news and propaganda.
Conference: The Rev. Henry Alford, A.W.N. Pugin and the Restoration of St Mary’s Church, Wymeswold: ecclesiology & architecture in 19th-century Leicestershire.
Between 1844 and 1846, the Reverend Henry Alford, vicar of Wymeswold (later Dean of Canterbury) commissioned the architect A.W.N. Pugin…
[March 25, 2026] WHaCS – Members presentation on Memories of Wollaton
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St Leonard's Community Centre, 4 Bramcote Lane, Nottingham, NG8 2ND
Stories and recollections gathered over the course of the 2025 exhibition at the Wollaton Village Dovecote Museum.
Rule Britannia: Queens, Power, Thrones
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Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA
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IN-PERSON DAY/WEEKEND • SHORT COURSES Fees: From £120 Female monarchs who ruled in their own right have been a rarity…
North Lecture: Emperor Septimius Severus and Roman Leicester’s links to North Africa.
Dr Simon Elliott, FSA archaeologist and historian, is an award winning and best-selling archaeologist, historian and broadcaster, with published works…
Jane Austen’s World: Women’s Lives in Regency England
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Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA
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IN-PERSON DAY/WEEKEND • SHORT COURSES Fees: From £120 This day event in Oxford will look at middle class women’s lives…
[February 25, 2026] WHaCS – Karen Slade (Company of Artisans) on Medieval tiles from Lenton Abbey & Beyond
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St Leonard's Community Centre, 4 Bramcote Lane, Nottingham, NG8 2ND
Discovery, history and reconstruction
2026 LAHS Member’s Evening
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Clephan 0.01, De Montfort University, Leicester.
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The annual LAHS Members’ evening provides an opportunity for members to present the results of their own research to the…
WHaCS – Sharon Bennett Connolly on Heroines of the Medieval World
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St Leonard's Community Centre, 4 Bramcote Lane, Nottingham, NG8 2ND
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Turning the spotlight on amazing Medieval women with strong ties to Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
30 Years of British Comedy
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Clephan 0.01, De Montfort University, Leicester.
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Geoff Rowe, Founder of the Leicester Comedy Festival, talks about his experience of producing and promoting British comedy, including stories…
The Beaumanor Coach and its Restoration
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Clephan 0.01, De Montfort University, Leicester.
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A talk by Amy Bracey, Project Curator and Trustee, The Carriage Foundation.
Mick Aston Lecture: The Complex Lives of Medieval Ritual Objects.
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Online or Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2JA, United Kingdom
Mick was a tutor in local studies at the Department before moving to Bristol University. Earlier he had made a…
From Nation to Local: Re-Discovering England’s Places through A History of England in 25 Poems.
Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History Autumn 2025 Seminar Series. Presented by Prof. Catherine Clarke…
WHaCS – James Wright on Historic Building Mythbusting in Nottinghamshire.
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St Leonard's Community Centre, 4 Bramcote Lane, Nottingham, NG8 2ND
An investigation into the underlying truths behind myths and romantic stories.
The Alluring Legacy of Alexander the Great.
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Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA
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IN-PERSON DAY/WEEKEND • SHORT COURSES Fees: From £120 Discover Alexander the Great, unparalleled in his capacity to captivate the collective…
Friends of the Centre for English Local History AGM 2025
November 18th 2025 at 7:00pm via ZOOM.
The Roman Small Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland.
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Clepham 0.01, De Montfort University, Leicester
Presented by Peter Liddle, former county archaeologist. The lecture will examine the evidence for Roman small towns in the modern…
Protest and the enclosure of urban public space in England from the late 18th century to the present.
Unfortunately Katrina Navickas’s talk on 13 November has been postponed until January. Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre…
Society for Museum Archaeology Conference 2025.
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Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head, Liverpool, L3 1DG, United Kingdom
The conference celebrates the successes of Museum Archaeology over the past 50 years and looks forward to the possible challenges…