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Thursday 9th January, 7.00pm: Pitts Room, Fearon Hall – Mollie Smith on Queen Henrietta Maria. An emblematic example of Early…

Elizabeth Heyrick was an abolitionist, social reformer and campaigner on a whole range of social issues. Born in 1769 in…

The history of ‘the unruly sort of clowns’ and other early modern peculiarities from a post by Laura Sangha who…

By Jeremy Benson who has now completed Part 2 of his online Leicestershire Stories, which focuses on the Wars of the…

New on-line publication by Bob Trubshaw. This new publication by LAHS member Bob Trubshaw is now available online. As he…

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…

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…