Edwardian Leicester.
Thursday 16th, October, 2025. 7:30pm. To be advised. Free. Cynthia Brown The Edwardian period in Leicester, loosely defined here as…
The British Imperial Way of Warfare
Tuesday 10th June, 2025. 4:30pm. ZOOM or in person FREE. Professor Yasmin Khan explores how Empire and Commonwealth shaped British…
Jean Townsend on London’s Lost Jewels: The story of the Cheapside Hoard.
Thursday 5th June, 2025. 7:00pm Pitts Room, Fearon Hall. £5.00 non-members/ free to members. Jean Townsend is a social historian…
Nottinghamshire Names Day: The University of Nottingham
Saturday 14th June, 2025. 10:00am – 5:00pm. A48 Clive Granger Building, University Park Campus, University of Nottingham. £10 (waged), £5…
Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society – Honest Men But Destitute :The Plight of Leicestershire’s Framework Knitters
Wednesday, 11th June, 2025. 7:30pm. Friends’ Meeting House, 16 Queen’s Road, Leicester, LE2 1WP. Many families from Leicestershire will find…
Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference 2025: Creeds, Councils and Canons.
15th – 17th July, 2025. . Pollock Edinburgh University, EH16 5AY.. . The 2025 EHS Conference theme will be ‘Creeds,…
LAHS History Fair 2025
Saturday 5th July, 2025. 10:00AM – 4:00PM Oakham Castle and Rutland County Museum. The LAHS History Fair returns and will…
What’s On
Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions……… If you would like to have your events included here please email the details…
Urban tourism promotion in the Low Countries in the 19th and 20th centuries
Wednesday 18th June, 2025. 3:00pm. Attenborough 101 or TEAMS. FREE. There will be an additional seminar in the CUH/CRLH seminar…
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…
Leicestershire and Rutland Festival of Archaeology
5th July to 3rd August, 2025. . . The Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology, part of the Council for…
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…
The Re-Trial of Colonel Francis Hacker, REGICIDE.
Sunday 1st June, 2025. 3:00pm. The Guildhall, Leicester.. £8. As part of the Siege of Leicester 380th Anniversary events Colonel…
Casino Royale: The Rise and Fall of the de Beaumont Earls of Leicester – Part 8: Severance.
Thursday 5th June, 2025. YOUTUBE. FREE. When the Lionheart’s final foray into Normandy is cut tragically short, Earl Robert must…
Casino Royale: The Rise and Fall of the de Beaumont Earls of Leicester – Part 7: Crusade.
Monday 2nd June, 2025. YOUTUBE. FREE. After Blanchemains’ actions threatened not only the de Beaumont legacy but also the very…
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 currently advertising vacancies for its National Lottery Heritage Fund project, ‘Educating Deptford: the Deptford…
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…
Casino Royale: The Rise and Fall of the de Beaumont Earls of Leicester.
Explore Norman England from 1066-1204 through the lives, events and intrigues of the first four Earls of Leicester. The 12th…
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…