Leicestershire and Rutland Festival of Archaeology
5th July to 3rd August, 2025. . . The Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology, part of the Council for…
Edwardian Leicester.
Thursday 16th, October, 2025. 7:30pm. To be advised. Free. Cynthia Brown The Edwardian period in Leicester, loosely defined here as…
Hidden Histories – An UnCivil War.
An exploration of the first English Civil War through its impacts on the people of Leicester and Leicestershire. In this…
Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, 28 July 1937 – 13 May 2025
A personal memoir by K.D.M. Snell. Charles Phythian-Adams, who has died aged 87, was educated at Marlborough College and came…
Black British history scholarship is established to honour historian and activist Len Garrison
Three postgraduates will be able study Black British history with the University of Leicester free of charge, thanks to a…
Educating Deptford: the Deptford Ragged School and its Place in the Community.
The Deptford Ragged School Archive is a heritage outreach project with a collection of objects which tell the history of…
Oxfordshire Record Society
The Oxfordshire Record Society was founded in 1919. In 2019, it celebrated 100 years of publishing primary sources for the…
New old maps from the National Library of Scotland
New online! View more than 100 maps of Great Britain and the wider world, as part of the Signet Library map collection (1640s–1930s). …
Prof. Prashant Kidambi
Prashant Kidambi is Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester. His research explores how modern South Asia was…
Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Dissertation Prizes 2026
2026 Dissertation Prizes in Leicestershire & Rutland Archaeology and History Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society awards four annual dissertation prizes…
The Phythian-Adams Award
Undergraduate awards 2025 Named in honour of Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, former Director of the Centre for English Local History, the…
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…
The Centre for Regional and Local History
Dedicated to the study of regional and local history throughout England and Wales, the Centre for Regional and Local History…
The Centre for Urban History
The University of Leicester has been an international pioneer of urban history since the 1960s and has been associated with…
Urban History Group Conference 2025.
4th & 5th September, 2025. All Day. Attenborough Seminar Block, University of Leicester. The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in…
What is a town?
By Dr. Joe Chick who is a Research Associate in Medieval History currently working on the ENDURE project run by…
Parish and Belonging
Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales 1700 – 1950 Keith Snell, published by Cambridge University Press in 2002.…
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The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) is the umbrella body for the voluntary and community sector in England. It is a…