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…
Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950
Keith Snell, published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. What role did the parish play in people’s lives in England…
Children and Chimneys
From the late 18th century children formed a rising proportion of the population and it was common for them to…
The Fenland Heritage Network
Fenland Heritage Network is an informal network of organisations, to promote local heritage, through Events and Promotions. There are many…
Spalding Gentlemen’s Society
The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, one of the oldest learned societies in the Kingdom and the earliest provincial association for the…
Hew Locke: what have we here?
17 October 2024 – 9 February 2025 Daily: 10.00–17.00 (Fridays 20.30) Join renowned Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke as he turns…
Journeys into Genealogy: Podcast
Julian Pooley : The Gentleman’s Magazine Listen to Julian Pooley as he joins Emma Cox on the Journeys into Genealogy…
LAHS Dissertation Prize 2025
LAHS awards four annual dissertation prizes for extended projects that focus on the Archaeology and/or History of Leicestershire and/or Rutland.…
Kate Tiller
We regret to advise of the death of a pioneer and trailblazer of local history, Dr. Kate Tiller, who sadly…
New Chief Executive at The Society of Genealogists
The Society of Genealogists has appointed Philip Spedding as its new Chief Executive. Philip joins the Society from the Royal…
The Rendlesham Project
Anglo-Saxon Life in South-East Sussex Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service is running a community archaeology project called “Rendlesham Revealed” from…
Susanna Watts
Colin Hyde’s presentation for Hoskins Day 2024 features Susanna Watts (1768–1842) who was a noted English abolitionist, author, translator and…
Geographers of the Ancient Greek World
School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester. Prof Graham Shipley’s new book is now available in all good…
Aldborough Estate Diaries
We have become aware of an opportunity for someone to investigate some 20 or so estate diaries from Aldborough relating…
Hallaton Helmet
2000-year-old Roman cavalry helmet from Hallaton recreated thanks to a grant from Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. Harborough Museum’s replica…