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…
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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…
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…
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…
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 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,…
FCELH Annual General Meeting 2024
The Friends of the Centre for English Local History AGM will be held on Tuesday 19 November 2024 at 19:00…
Research your family history using the General Register Office
You can order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) to help you…
Business Archives Council
Founded in 1934, the objectives of the BAC are to: The Council produces an electronic newsletter and the past publication…
What’s On
Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions……… If you would like to have your events included here please email the details…
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is now fully Open Access.
From 21 August 2024, all TRHS articles will be published ‘open access’ and freely available to read online. This means…
The Fenland Heritage Network
Fenland Heritage Network is an informal network of organisations, to promote local heritage, through Events and Promotions. There are many…
Spalding Gentlemen’s Society
The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, one of the oldest learned societies in the Kingdom and the earliest provincial association for the…
Kate Tiller
We regret to advise of the death of a pioneer and trailblazer of local history, Dr. Kate Tiller, who sadly…
New Chief Executive at The Society of Genealogists
The Society of Genealogists has appointed Philip Spedding as its new Chief Executive. Philip joins the Society from the Royal…