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Friends of the Centre for English Local history

Friends of the Centre for English Local history

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

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: 18 August 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Friends of the Centre for English Local History – Autumn Visit to Grace Dieu Priory and Ashby Museum.

Saturday 27th September, 2025. 10:00am – 4:30pm. Ashby Museum and Grace Dieu Priory  £22.38 via Eventbrite. Join us for a…
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Posted on: 3 July 2025 Last updated on: 20 August 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Borough of Twickenham Local History Society

The Borough of Twickenham Local History Society focuses on the history of Twickenham, Whitton, Teddington and the Hamptons all of…
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Posted on: 26 June 2025 Last updated on: 1 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Society for Medieval Archaeology Conference 2025

13th and 14th September, 2025. 900am – 5:00pm. Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester. Fresh thinking and new ideas in the archaeology…
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Posted on: 23 June 2025 Last updated on: 23 June 2025 Comments: 2 Written by: John Parker

Oxford Lifelong Learning

From 25 June 2025 courses delivered by the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford will come under…
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Posted on: 23 June 2025 Last updated on: 1 September 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: 18 August 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

The 2025 Cameron Lecture: Lost Villages, Lost Names?

Friday 19th September, 2025. 7:00pm. A48 Sir Clive Granger Building, University of Nottingham. FREE. The Cameron lecture 2025 will be…
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Posted on: 12 June 2025 Last updated on: 18 August 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

The British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies Archive  

The British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies Archive is based in the School of Archaeology and Ancient…
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Posted on: 3 June 2025 Last updated on: 3 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

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…
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Posted on: 30 May 2025 Last updated on: 30 May 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 19 May 2025 Last updated on: 19 May 2025 Comments: 2 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 14 May 2025 Last updated on: 23 June 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 13 May 2025 Last updated on: 13 July 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Oxfordshire Record Society

The Oxfordshire Record Society was founded in 1919. In 2019, it celebrated 100 years of publishing primary sources for the…
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Posted on: 9 May 2025 Last updated on: 9 May 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

New old maps from the National Library of Scotland.

With around two million cartographic items, the NLS map collection is the largest in Scotland and one of the largest…
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Posted on: 6 May 2025 Last updated on: 1 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Prof. Prashant Kidambi

Prashant Kidambi is Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester. His research explores how modern South Asia was…
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Posted on: 2 May 2025 Last updated on: 3 May 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

LAHS Dissertation Prizes for Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology and History.

Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society awards four annual dissertation prizes for extended projects that focus on the Archaeology and/or History…
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Posted on: 22 April 2025 Last updated on: 4 September 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 15 April 2025 Last updated on: 13 July 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. The East Midlands…
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Posted on: 11 April 2025 Last updated on: 25 August 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

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…
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Posted on: 8 April 2025 Last updated on: 14 May 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker
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