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…
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Susanna Watts
Colin Hyde’s presentation for Hoskins Day 2024 features Susanna Watts (1768–1842) who was a noted English abolitionist, author, translator and…
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…
Economies Past
Over the last 20 years, a team of historians at Cambridge have collected millions of records to build, for England…
100 Ballads.
Top-of-the-pops from seventeenth-century England. Professor Christopher Marsh is a historian at Queen’s University, Belfast, whose work focuses on the social…
Andrew Hopper: Fellow of the Society for Army Historical Research
Andrew Hopper, Professor in Local and Social History in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford (and…
Regional & Local History
Since local boot and shoe manufacturer Thomas Hatton donated his collection of books on antiquarianism the University of Leicester Library…
Archives & Special Collections
The University of Leicester Library has extensive collections of rare books, manuscripts, historical photographs, engraved portrait prints and personal archives;…
1000 years of London’s History
London Metropolitan Archives. LMA is a public research centre which specialises in the history of London, caring for and providing…
Did You Know – Society of Genealogists
The Society of Genealogists possesses the largest family history research library in the United Kingdom, accessible to all members without…
Special Collections On-line
Welcome to our online heritage collections, free and open to all. Building on our strengths in local, urban and industrial…
Discoveries and Outcomes of Civil War Petitions
A 4-minute video of Ismini Pells and Andrew Hopper discussing the findings of the Civil War Petitions Project here: https://www.civilwarpetitions.ac.uk/discoveries-and-outcomes-of-civil-war-petitions/…
Upside Down World
A new 5-minute video from former Centre for English Local History MA student and Midland History prizewinner Denise Greany discussing the Education…
The World Turned Upside Down
People, events and ideas of the British Civil Wars explored and explained by leading historians including Friends of the Centre…
Stories of ‘ordinary medieval folk’
Dr Sarah Inskip, researcher on After the Plague, and now at the Centre for Regional and Local History, University of…
Surrey Heritage
Surrey History Centre in Woking collects and preserves the records of Surrey’s past and present, documenting the story of the…
Medieval Settlement Research Group
MSRG is a multi-disciplinary group that facilitates collaboration between archaeologists, historians, geographers and other interested parties dedicated to developing understanding…
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…
Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society Transactions
Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society is approaching the end of long project to lodge the complete archive of LAHS Transactions,…
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…