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Professor Charles Phythian-Adams was born on the 28th of July 1937, educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, and Hertford College, Oxford,…

The University of Leicester has honoured a pioneering female archaeologist by naming one of its academic buildings after her. After…

Saturday 21st June, 2025. Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln. Call for papers This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the diversity of…

Starts September 2025. 1 – 2 years full or part time. University of Leicester. UK £9550, International £18950. This course…

The Nation’s Records Preserved, Accessed and Interpreted for the Benefit of All. The Association aims to initiate, encourage and support…

The British Records Association is delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 Janette Harley Prize: Dr Eliza Wheaton (editor), Loving and…

We sadly have to inform you of the death of Nicola Verdon who undertook the MA course in English Local…

Tuesday 8th April, 2025. 6:30pm. Great Hall, Warwick Castle £15. Revealing the untold story of Warwick Castle and its people…

Author Karima Shirfield, published by Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society in The Leicestershire Historian 59. Vol 59. pp. 56-62. The…

A collection of historic posters from the London tramways network will go on display in February 2025. The London Archives…

In 1999, archaeologists working at a quarry in Cossington, Leicestershire, found something amazing. In a grave from the Early Bronze…

Saturday 5th July, 2025. Oakham Castle. The LAHS History Fair returns and will be taking place on Saturday 5th July…

Historian membership is for everyone with a love of history. If you enjoy reading and hearing about history, want to…

A Vision of Britain through Time brings together historical surveys of the British Isles to create a record of how these…

Earthworks of Rutland by Robert F Hartley, ed K Elkin, 2023.A4, 133 pages, 88 plans, 17 landscape maps, 5 colour…

Our new FCELH Chair, Anne Coyne, is a medievalist whose main area of research is the religious and mercantile history…

The Maps Descriptive of London Poverty are the product of Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour In London (1886…

As part of an ongoing project, over the last few months The National Archives has produced and released over 8,000…

Robert Bakewell was the fourth generation of a family of Leicestershire tenant farmers in Normanton-le-Heath. Originally husbandmen, they developed specialist…

The Wytham Estate was acquired by the University of Oxford in 1942, mainly as a gift, and is a site…