The Next FCELH Committee Meeting
Tuesday 28th January, 2025. 7:00pm. ZOOM
The Next Surrey Heritage Presentation
Wednesday 15th January, 2025. 5:30pm. ZOOM. £6.00. Oliver House: The Story of a 16th Century Cottage Discover the fascinating history…
The Next BALH Event
Tuesday 21st January, 2025. 7:00pm – 8:30pm. Virtual. £5.00 (FREE for BALH members. Breaking the Mold: Alberta Sturges, The Redefining…
The Next IHR Centre for the History of People, Place and Community Event
Wednesday 22nd January, 2025. 5:30pm – 7:00pm. ZOOM. FREE. From documenting dissent to mapping migration: community heritage in action Alison…
The Next CUH/CRLH Seminar
Friday 17th January, 2025. 3:00pm. Attenborough (CRLH Library) or TEAMS. FREE. ‘Colonial City as an Austere City: Insights from Sanitary…
The Next Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture.
Thursday 23rd January, 2025. 7:30pm. Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, University of Leicester. FREE. ‘Fieldworkers and Fieldschools: discovering a Roman…
What’s On
Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions……… If you would like to have your events included here please email the details…
Department of Continuing Education – Short Courses in History including Local and Social History
Journey back through history and uncover the secrets of our past. Whether you’re eager to explore a new interest or…
Hoskins Day 2025
Saturday 10th May, 2025. 11:00am – 5:00pm. Attenborough Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester. Keynote Speaker: MARK GARDINER Mark Gardiner is…
Lost Victorian City
About the Exhibition This FREE exhibition ‘Lost Victorian City: a London disappeared’ takes a look at the collections held at…
Centre for Regional and Local History and Centre for Urban History: Spring 2025 Seminar Series
All seminars take place in Attenborough 101, Attenborough Tower, University of Leicester. Friday 17 January 2025, 3.00pm‘Colonial City as an…
Leicestershire Fieldworkers Book Price and Postage List 2024
Earthworks of Rutland by Robert F Hartley, ed K Elkin, 2023A4, 133 pages, 88 plans, 17 landscape maps, 5 colour…
BALH Events
Local Country Walks Through Colonial Britain Thursday 31st October 2024 7:00pm. Event type: Virtual The countryside is cherished by many…
Gdansk and the Hanseatic League.
Our new FCELH Chair, Anne Coyne, is a medievalist whose main area of research is the religious and mercantile history…
The Institute of Historical Research’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community
Winter/Spring 2025 Events Schedule Wednesday 22nd January 2025 5.30-7pm Online – via ZOOM From documenting dissent to mapping migration: communityheritage…
Ice Age Journeys
Thursday 16th January, 2025. 7:30pm. Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester. FREE ‘Ice Age Journeys – hunting the colonisers of…
Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9.
The Maps Descriptive of London Poverty are the product of Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour In London (1886…
A Walk Through Leicester: Susanna Watts (1768-1842)
Leicestershire Archaeology and Historical Society guest blogger, John Parker, retraces the footsteps of Susanna Watts. Abolitionist, author, translator, and artist.
New Records on the Transatlantic Slave Trade added to the National Archives Catalogue.
As part of an ongoing project, over the last few months The National Archives has produced and released over 8,000…
Robert Bakewell of Dishley Grange (1725-1795).
Robert Bakewell was the fourth generation of a family of Leicestershire tenant farmers in Normanton-le-Heath. Originally husbandmen, they developed specialist…
Anthony John Mundella 1825-1897
Anthony John Mundella was born in Leicester on 28th March 1825. His mother was a local framework knitter called Rebecca…
‘Provisions for the people: the food supply of Loughborough, 1851-1897’ by Dave Fogg Postles
This is part of Dave’s new book on the food supply of Loughborough and is available as a FREE download…