What’s On

Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions………

7-8/06/2025Medieval Settlement Research GroupSpring Conference 2025: Adaptations: Medieval Responses to Environmental Change.
University of Leicester
29/01/2025Surrey HeritageFinding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life. The story of the British-born
victims of the Nazi war on disabled people. A talk by Dr. Helen Atherton &
Dr. Simon Jarrett		ZOOMhttps://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/events
15/01/2025Surrey HeritageOliver House: The story of a 16th century cottage. A talk by
Sarah Pettyfer		ZOOMhttps://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/events
12/12/2024Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyLeicester: an Anglo-Saxon diocese
A talk by Thomas Vare, PhD student, University of Leicester		Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)
05/12/2024British Association for Local HistoryEnglish merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities, c.1588–c.1765: BALH Dymond Lecture 2024On-linehttps://www.balh.org.uk/dymond2024?utm_medium=email&utm_source=BALH&utm_campaign=newsletter-1653
05/12/2024Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series‘Unpacking the Dryad ‘Handicrafts’ collection: towards a global movement of ‘arts and crafts’ in Leicester’ Maria Chiara Scuderi (Leicester)In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams (2pm)https://www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2024/09/16/centre-for-regional-and-local-history-centre-for-urban-history-autumn-2024-seminar-series/
27/11/2024Surrey HeritageThe afterlives of executed bodies from Kennington
Common. A talk by Dr. Anna Cusack		ZOOMhttps://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/events
27/11/2024Church Monuments Society‘The Style of the Dead: Why Classicism so often gets the best Sepulchral Gigs’ – Alexander Stoddart (King’s Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland)The Alan Baxter Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6BP, or online via ZOOMhttps://churchmonumentssociety.org/events/all-hallows-lecture-series
23/11/2024Church Monuments SocietyFaith, Hope, Charity and the Regular Solids: Imagery and Symbolism on Church Monuments – Dr Jean WilsonZOOMhttps://churchmonumentssociety.org/events/all-hallows-lecture-series
22/11/2024Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series‘”One can hardly believe that a great city ever flourished in this spot”: the construction of ancient Memphis’
Dr Rober Frost (Leicester)		In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams (3pm)https://www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2024/09/16/centre-for-regional-and-local-history-centre-for-urban-history-autumn-2024-seminar-series/
19/11/2024Friends of the Centre for English Local HistoryFCELH Annual General MeetingZOOM
16/11/2024Church Monuments Society‘Ghastly Grim’: the 17th Century Church Gateways of London – Dr Roger BowdlerZOOMhttps://churchmonumentssociety.org/events/all-hallows-lecture-series
14/11/2024Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyLAHS Annual General MeetingRattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)https://lahs.org.uk/events/169th-annual-general-meeting-2024
14/11/2024Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyChurch-people and Social Change in 19th Century Leicestershire
LAHS Member and Author Nick Miller		Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)https://lahs.org.uk/events/church-people-and-social-change-in-19th-century-leicestershirehttps://lahs.org.uk/events/169th-annual-general-meeting-2024
14/11/2024Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series‘See the Carnival. See the Camera Man. See Yourself on the Screen’: Newsreels and local consumer-citizenship in inter-war Britain’
Dr Conner Scott (Leicester)
In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams (2pm)https://www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2024/09/16/centre-for-regional-and-local-history-centre-for-urban-history-autumn-2024-seminar-series/
13/11/2024Surrey HeritageSurrey WritersZOOMhttps://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/events
01/11/2024Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar SeriesReinventing the town: How Colchester used the past in its place marketing activities in the long-nineteenth century
Dr Mike Sewell (Manchester Metropolitan)		In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams (3pm)https://www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2024/09/16/centre-for-regional-and-local-history-centre-for-urban-history-autumn-2024-seminar-series/
31/10/2024Church Monuments SocietyAnnual All Hallows Lecture:
‘Yet Nothing is more certaine than death, nor more uncertaine, than the houre theirof…’: Excavations in the Chantry Chapels at St Mary’s, Kilkenny – Cóilín Ó’Drisceoil (Office of Public Works, Ireland)		ZOOMhttps://churchmonumentssociety.org/events/all-hallows-lecture-series
31/10/2024British Association for Local HistoryLocal Country Walks Through Colonial Britain)Virtualhttps://www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-local-country-walks-through-colonial-britain-2024-10-31
30/10/2024Surrey HeritageBehind the Scenes in Conservation – Tithe MapsZOOMhttps://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/events
26/10/2024Nottinghamshire Local History AssociationNottinghamshire History ForumVillage Hall
Ravenshead
Nottinghamshire
NG15 9BN		https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nottinghamshire-local-history-associations-autumn-forum-tickets-936532593197?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
23/10/2024Surrey HeritageHighclere Castle and its archive. A talk by David RymillZOOMhttps://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/events
18/10/2024Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series‘Reimagining Leicester’s black spaces: Using women’s memories of interracial romantic relationships to expand our understanding of the origins of everyday British multiculturalism between 1960 and 1990’
Dr Sue Bishop (Leicester)		In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams (3pm)https://www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2024/09/16/centre-for-regional-and-local-history-centre-for-urban-history-autumn-2024-seminar-series/
17/10/2024British Association for Local HistoryMaking the most of the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)Virtualhttps://www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-making-the-most-of-the-bibliography-of-british-and-irish-history-bbih-2024-10-17?utm_medium=email&utm_source=BALH&utm_campaign=newsletter-1750
17/10/2024Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyAll Quiet on the Leicester Front? The US Military Race Disturbances of 1944
Vincent Holyoak, Part of Black History Month in Leicester.		Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)https://lahs.org.uk/events/coming-soon-all-quiet-on-the-leicester-front-the-us-military-race-disturbances-of-1944
16/10/2024Friends of the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and RutlandTommy’s Mail – a talk by Peter CousinsThe Record Office, Long Street, Wigston LE18 2AHhttp://www.recordoffice.org.uk/support-us/friends-of-the-record-office/
12/10/2024British Association for Local HistoryBALH Conference: Maps and BuildingsSt Andrew’s Church Hall, Kingston Road, Taunton, TA2 7SBhttps://www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-balh-conference-maps-and-buildings-2024-10-12
12/10/2024Surrey Archaeological SocietyLocal History Symposium : Medieval SurreySurrey History Centre 130, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6ND.https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/node/8156/register
09/10/2024Surrey HeritageFrom Patient to Professor. A talk by Dr. Dan JacobsonZOOMhttps://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/events
08/10/2024University of YorkYork and the North: The Black Death, 1349-1373 a lecture presented by
Professor Sarah Rees Jones, Department of History		ZOOM and in person at Room K/133, King’s Manor, Exhibition Square, University of Yorkhttps://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/public-lectures/sem1-24-25/black-death/
05/10/2024Leicestershire & Rutland Family History SocietyLRFHS Golden Jubilee CelebrationLeicester Adult Education Centre, 54 Belvoir Street, Leicester LE1 5QLhttps://lrfhs.org.uk
03/10/2024 – THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLEDCentre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series‘Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Peter Fryers Black History classic Staying Power’ Gaverne Bennett (Leicester)THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLEDhttps://www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2024/09/16/centre-for-regional-and-local-history-centre-for-urban-history-autumn-2024-seminar-series/
30/09/2024Surrey Heritage‘Michael Field’ in Reigate: Queer Women Writers and
Surrey in the 1890s. A talk by Margaret D. Stetz		ZOOMhttps://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/events
26/09/2024Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyScarborough Lecture by Sharon Bennett ConnollyRattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)https://lahs.org.uk/events/coming-soon-scarborough-lecture
21/09/2024Friends of the Centre for English Local HistoryVisit to Ayscoughfee HallAyscoughfee Hall, Spaldinghttps://www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2024/07/14/friends-visit-to-ayscoughfee-hall-museum/
21/09/2024British Association for Local HistoryUntold Stories

A full day Conference organised jointly by the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology (SLHA), the British Association for Local History (BALH) and the Lincoln Record Society (LRS)		Deans building
Deans Sport & Leisure, College, Monks Rd, Lincoln LN2 5HQ
https://www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-untold-stories-2024-09-21
19/09/2024Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyStar Carr – Changing perspectives on the early Mesolithic of Britain
A talk by Barry Taylor, University of Chester.		Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)https://lahs.org.uk/events/star-carr-changing-perspectives-on-the-early-mesolithic-of-britain
18/09/2024Surrey HeritageResearching in Archives. A talk by Sarah PettyferZOOMhttps://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/events
17/09/2024Österreichische Gesellschaft für Mittelalter- und Neuzeitarchäologie International Conference of the Austrian Society for Medieval and Modern ArchaeologyLebring-St. Margarethen (Styria/Austria).https://www.academia.edu/109230473/
11/09/2024Friends of the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and RutlandThe post mistress, the parlour maid and the milliner: three Victorian women in
Leicestershire – a talk by Mary Bryceland		The Record Office, Long Street, Wigston LE18 2AHhttp://www.recordoffice.org.uk/support-us/friends-of-the-record-office/
06/09/2024Heritage Open DaysTalk on the Rise of John de Codyngton, 14th Century ClericThe Buttermarket, Middle Gate, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1ALhttps://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/talk-on-the-rise-of-john-de-codyngton-14th-century-cleric.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawFD-blleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYrmCyE3OMrXSZufk5qq3KVw-QuCaICsMO5giFCitnWQT9YeNVQjyr0HMg_aem_NfhfVo2XnDihaBIgLdmj8Q
06/09/2024Heritage Open DaysTalk on the Ventures of Robert Stuffyn, 14th Century Wool MerchantThe Buttermarket, Middle Gate, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1ALhttps://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/talk-on-the-ventures-of-robert-stuffyn-14th-century-wool-merchant.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawFD_OlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXXT7ud6q-ip4V0wJWQY1mrocqaTrRQnB_WI6JZsq9OUWU-KowAlcuwU-g_aem_5m5Ywbag9rK1uLW7iTNVvQ
05/09/2024Southwell MinsterDiscovery Day 2024Southwell Minster, Southwell, Nottinghamshirehttps://www.southwellminster.org/events/event/discovery-day-2024/

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