Friends Newsletter October 2025.
Welcome to the Friends Newsletter for 2025. This edition is packed with news and items of interest for the discerning…
Friends of the Centre for English Local History Annual General Meeting 2025.
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 7pm, by…
New old maps from the National Library of Scotland and a new geo-referencing tool for the maps.
With around two million cartographic items, the NLS map collection is the largest in Scotland and one of the largest…
LAHS Dissertation Prizes for Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology and History.
Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society awards four annual dissertation prizes for extended projects that focus on the Archaeology and/or History…
What’s On.
Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions……… If you would like to have your events included here please email the details…
New Survey of India half-inch to the mile mapping, 1912-1951
The National Library of Scotland has added online an additional 1,860 Survey of India maps, at the half-inch to the mile…
Restless Souls, Global Footprints.
To mark the publication of his latest book ‘Restless Souls, Global Footprints’ Adrian Gray will give an illustrated talk covering…
Grace Dieu Priory
The Friends’ second outing for 2025 found us assembling at the Museum at Ashby-de-la-Zouch on a Saturday morning in late…
Mick Aston Lecture: The Complex Lives of Medieval Ritual Objects.
Mick was a tutor in local studies at the Department before moving to Bristol University. Earlier he had made a…
From Nation to Local: Re-Discovering England’s Places through A History of England in 25 Poems.
Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History Autumn 2025 Seminar Series. Presented by Prof. Catherine Clarke…
Society for Museum Archaeology Conference 2025.
The conference celebrates the successes of Museum Archaeology over the past 50 years and looks forward to the possible challenges…
The Roman Small Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland.
Presented by Peter Liddle, former county archaeologist. The lecture will examine the evidence for Roman small towns in the modern…
Protest and the enclosure of urban public space in England from the late 18th century to the present.
Unfortunately Katrina Navickas’s talk on 13 November has been postponed until January. Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre…
Researching a War Memorial.
From Oadby Remembers, Jan Bryars (Chair) and Sue Lester (Researcher) tell the story of the research carried out between 2014…
Surrey Heritage Online Talks: Celebrating R C Sherriff.
November 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the Surrey author R C Sherriff (1896-1975). This talk celebrates…
Sceptred Isle: a new history of the 14th century.
Join historian Helen Carr for a fresh look at a century of revolution, shifting power and unprecedented change.
Oxford’s Black and Muslim migration stories.
Part of Oxford Community History Hub’s autumn events programme entitled ‘WHO MAKES HISTORY?’ This seminar will be led by the…
The Lithic Studies Society Annual Conference 2025.
The LSS annual conference this year is coming to the city of Leicester, hosted by Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL) in…
Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk.
Join the British Records Association as they examine past, present and future risk to UK archives and discuss preservation strategies…
Leicester Cathedral Revealed.
This day of talks will reveal what archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services have uncovered about Leicester Cathedral and…
Sceptred Isle: a new history of the 14th century.
Friday 7th November, 2025. 2:00pm – 3:00pm. Online. FREE. Join historian Helen Carr for a fresh look at a century…
Mick Aston Lecture: The Complex Lives of Medieval Ritual Objects.
Friday 28th November, 2025. 4:45pm – 6:15pm Online or Rewley House. . From £15. This lecture is in memory of…
Researching a War Memorial
Wednesday 12th November, 2025. 7:30pm. Oadby Granville Tennis Club. FREE to members.. From Oadby Remembers, Jan Bryars (Chair) and Sue…
Surrey Poor Law Union minute books.
The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 created a series of Poor Law Unions governed by Boards of Guardians. This system…