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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 English Local History as taught and practised in the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Leicester

Short Courses for Adult Learners

Department of Continuing Education Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2JA. History Courses including Local and Social History Enrich and…
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Posted on: 27 July 2023 Last updated on: 27 July 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society Transactions

Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society is approaching the end of long project to lodge the complete archive of LAHS Transactions,…
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Posted on: 17 July 2023 Last updated on: 17 July 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

The Medieval Earthworks of Rutland

By Robert F Hartley. This is a revised and expanded survey of the Medieval Earthworks of Rutland first published in…
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Posted on: 13 July 2023 Last updated on: 13 July 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Free articles at JSTOR.

Friends (alumni or not) who register with the University of Leicester library – or other university libraries – can get…
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Posted on: 8 July 2023 Last updated on: 8 July 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

English Local History Publications at The David Wilson Library.

The David Wilson Library holds an excellent collection of English local history publications on the 3rd Floor, accessible to those with…
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Posted on: 1 June 2023 Last updated on: 1 June 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Nichols Archive Project.

Julian Pooley, FSA,  Centre for Regional and Local History, University of Leicester. The papers accumulated and collected by John Nichols…
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Posted on: 2 May 2023 Last updated on: 12 June 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Views of England and Wales: a new online collection

At the end of March 2023 Library and Learning Services at the University of Leicester has launched ‘Views of England…
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Posted on: 14 April 2023 Last updated on: 9 May 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Centre for English Local History Bibliographies

You can now view and/or download PDF copies of CELH bibliographies for the years 1948-1998, 1999-2008 and 2009-2021 from our…
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Posted on: 27 March 2023 Last updated on: 27 March 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Their Finest Hour

Is a digital history project based at the University of Oxford which aims to capture and preserve the stories and…
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Posted on: 7 February 2023 Last updated on: 7 February 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Short and Online Courses at DCU

Oxford University Department for Continuing Education is a department within the University of Oxford that provides continuing education mainly for…
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Posted on: 22 January 2023 Last updated on: 22 January 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Court rolls of the Manor of Curles, Clavering

Clavering is a village and also a parish in north-west Essex in England. It is about 20 miles (32 km)…
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Posted on: 29 December 2022 Last updated on: 29 December 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Historic Maps from The National Library of Scotland

The National Library of Scotland holds over two million cartographic items, making it the largest collection of maps in Scotland…
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Posted on: 23 November 2022 Last updated on: 24 November 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

A Rural Railway: The Midland Railway – Lincoln to Newark by Jeremy Lodge

This tells the story of the rural stretch of the Midland Railway’s Lincoln to Nottingham line that runs through the…
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Posted on: 25 October 2022 Last updated on: 8 October 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Friends Newsletters

PDF copies of all Friends newsletters from issue 1 of 1989 to issue 35 of 2022 are now available to…
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Posted on: 13 October 2022 Last updated on: 8 June 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

The Centre for Regional and Local History

Founded in 1948, English Local History helped to establish local history as a respected academic discipline in the UK. In…
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Posted on: 9 October 2022 Last updated on: 9 October 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Centre for Regional and Local History Library

Members of the Friends are welcome to use the library collections and other facilities during office hours. The libraries of…
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Posted on: 7 October 2022 Last updated on: 7 October 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

Deviant Maternity  Illegitimacy in Wales, c. 1680–1800 by Dr. Angela Muir

This is the first-ever book to explore illegitimacy in Wales during the eighteenth century. Drawing on previously overlooked archival sources,…
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Posted on: 3 August 2022 Last updated on: 8 October 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

FREE borrowing for Alumni at University of Leicester libraries

It appears that Alumni have been added to the small number of local groups like Leicestershire NHS staff, Leicestershire teaching…
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Posted on: 23 July 2022 Last updated on: 23 July 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

FREE Membership for ALL University of Leicester History Students and PhD History Candidates

The Friends of The Centre for English Local History are pleased to extend FREE membership to ALL University of Leicester…
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Posted on: 13 July 2022 Last updated on: 4 October 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker

New Thinking: Flooding and Energy by Richard Jones

Podcast for BBC Radio 3. How decoding Erewash, Trent, Averham and other field, river and place names from old maps…
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Posted on: 12 July 2022 Last updated on: 12 June 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: John Parker
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