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A website dedicated to deserted medieval villages. This website is was made possible by a generous legacy bequeathed to the…

In answer to a request that the series of lectures be named after him, Professor Hoskins replied as follows:  Stoke…

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 & Social Structure turns 60 this year. Since its founding in 1964,…

You can order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) to help you…

Founded in 1934, the objectives of the BAC are to: The Council produces an electronic newsletter and the past publication…

From 21 August 2024, all TRHS articles will be published ‘open access’ and freely available to read online. This means…

Fenland Heritage Network is an informal network of organisations, to promote local heritage, through Events and Promotions. There are many…

The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, one of the oldest learned societies in the Kingdom and the earliest provincial association for the…

We regret to advise of the death of a pioneer and trailblazer of local history, Dr. Kate Tiller, who sadly…

The Society of Genealogists has appointed Philip Spedding as its new Chief Executive. Philip joins the Society from the Royal…

Anglo-Saxon Life in South-East Sussex Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service is running a community archaeology project called “Rendlesham Revealed” from…

2000-year-old Roman cavalry helmet from Hallaton recreated thanks to a grant from Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. Harborough Museum’s replica…

Over the last 20 years, a team of historians at Cambridge have collected millions of records to build, for England…

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, Professor in Local and Social History in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford (and…

Since local boot and shoe manufacturer Thomas Hatton donated his collection of books on antiquarianism the University of Leicester Library…

The University of Leicester Library has extensive collections of rare books, manuscripts, historical photographs, engraved portrait prints and personal archives;…