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…
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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…
The Rendlesham Project
Anglo-Saxon Life in South-East Sussex Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service is running a community archaeology project called “Rendlesham Revealed” from…
Hallaton Helmet
2000-year-old Roman cavalry helmet from Hallaton recreated thanks to a grant from Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. Harborough Museum’s replica…
Economies Past
Over the last 20 years, a team of historians at Cambridge have collected millions of records to build, for England…
100 Ballads.
Top-of-the-pops from seventeenth-century England. Professor Christopher Marsh is a historian at Queen’s University, Belfast, whose work focuses on the social…
Andrew Hopper: Fellow of the Society for Army Historical Research
Andrew Hopper, Professor in Local and Social History in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford (and…