2025 Dissertation Prizes in Leicestershire & Rutland Archaeology and History.
Deadline for 2025 prizes: 31 December 2024. Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society awards four annual dissertation prizes for extended projects…
Author: John Parker
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…
More terraced housing in Leicester
Friday 29th November 2024, 2pm to 4pm, Satta Hashem Hall, Leicester Adult Education Centre, Wellington Street, Leicester LE1 6ZG. EMOHA…
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…
The Next All Hallows Lecture 2024
Saturday 23 November 2024 – 5pm, FREE, ON-LINE. Faith, Hope, Charity and the Regular Solids: Imagery and Symbolism on Church…
The afterlives of executed bodies from Kennington Common.
Wednesday 27 November, 5.30pm to 6.45pm on ZOOM. A talk by Dr. Anna Cusack. The Surrey Gallows stood on Kennington…
The Next CUH/CRLH Seminar
Friday 22 November, 3pm, in-person in Att 101 (CRLH library) or via a Teams link. Ancient Memphis – ”One can…
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…
Medieval Settlement Research Group – AGM
Saturday 7th December, 2024, Attenborough Lecture Theatre 1, Main Campus, University of Leicester. Registration for this year’s MSRG AGM and…
The Wytham Project: Histories and Communities
The Wytham Estate was acquired by the University of Oxford in 1942, mainly as a gift, and is a site…
Friends Newsletter 2024
The evenings are drawing in and the leaves are beginning to fall so it must be time for another Friends…
Beresford’s Lost Villages
A website dedicated to deserted medieval villages. This website is was made possible by a generous legacy bequeathed to the…
Hoskins Day Presentations
In answer to a request that the series of lectures be named after him, Professor Hoskins replied as follows: Stoke…
Monthly Updates
Every month we circulate by email an update on events, conferences, activities, publications, reports and Friends notifications to anyone who…
The Next Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture.
7.30pm, Thursday 12th December 2024, at the Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH). Bishopric of the…
Part-time qualifications in local history
Enrich and extend your knowledge of local history. Part-time local and social history courses concentrate on cultural and social aspects…
Church Monuments Society – All Hallows Lectures 2024
FREE on-line lectures via ZOOM. ‘Ghastly Grim’: the 17th Century Church Gateways of London – Dr Roger Bowdler, Saturday 16 November…
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure – Blogs
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure turns 60 this year. Since its founding in 1964,…
Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History Autumn 2024 Seminar Series
Thursday 5 December, 2pm – ‘Unpacking the Dryad ‘Handicrafts’ collection : towards a global movement of ‘arts and crafts’ in Leicester’…