EVENTS, MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

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05/07/2025Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society170th Anniversary History FairOakham Castle, Oakham LE15 6DR
07/06/2025 – 08/06/2025Medieval Settlement Research GroupSpring Conference 2025: Adaptations: Medieval Responses to Environmental Change.
University of LeicesterMore information here
22/05/2025British Association for Local HistoryAnnual General MeetingVirtualMore information here
10/05/2025Friends of the Centre for English Local HistoryHoskins Day 2025Attenborough Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester11:00am – 5:00pmMore information here
05/04/2025Friends of the Centre for English Local HistoryPeace and War : Friends Study DayThornby Hall and Naseby battlefield, NorthamptonshireMore information here
25/03/2025Institute for Historical ResearchResearching Place-Based Religious Histories Beyond the Parish Church (1)ZOOM2:00pm – 4:00pmFREEMore information here
13/03/2025Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyThe life of a Roman soldier and the story of the last battle of Boudica AD 60/61 Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)More information here
13/03/2025Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History‘Almost Urban? Approaching the Archaeology of Small Town Life in Medieval England’

Prof Ben Jervis (Leicester)		In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams 2:00pmMore information here
08/03/2025Surrey HeritageSurrey History Centre Open Day130 Goldsworth Road, GU21 6ND Woking,10:30am – 3:00pm£5.00More information here
28/02/2025Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History‘Quest for a Cohesive Diaspora African Community: Reliving Historic Experiences by Zimbabweans in Britain’
Dr Christopher Roy Zembe (De Montfort)		In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams 3:00pmMore information here
26/02/2025Surrey HeritageThe Princess Mary Village Homes in the 20th Century. A talk by Dr. Jessamy CarlsonZOOM5:30pm – 6:45pm£6.00More information here
13/02/2025Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society2025 LAHS Members’ Evening
Members present their own research		 Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)More information here
13/02/2025Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban HistoryThe Book that Changed My Life: Discovering the Archive of John Nichols (1745-1826), author of the History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Leicester
Julian Pooley (Surrey History Centre and CRLH)
In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams 2:00pmMore information here
12/02/2025Surrey HeritageUpdate on the Surrey WW2 bomb map. Discoveries and surprises continue. Bombs, aircraft, doodlebugs and more; they all fell on Surrey. A talk by Martin StilwellZOOM5:30pm – 6:45pm£6.00More information here
06/02/2025Inspire NottinghamshireTour of Nottinghamshire ArchivesNottinghamshire Archives,
Castle Meadow Rd, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG2 1AG		2:30pm – 3:30pmFREEMore information here
30/01/2025Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History‘No More Living on Top of the Works: Housing, Commuting and Social Life in Post-War Welsh Steel Communities’
Prof Louise Miskell (Swansea)
In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams 2:00pmMore information here
29/01/2025Surrey HeritageFinding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life. The story of the British-born
victims of the Nazi war on disabled people. A talk by Dr. Helen Atherton &
Dr. Simon Jarrett		ZOOM5:30pm – 6:45pm£6.00More information here
28/01/2025British Association for Local HistoryFinding historic PerthVirtualMore information here
23/01/2025Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyFieldworkers and Fieldschools: Discovering a Roman Settlement at Laughton Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)7:30pmFREEMore information here
22/01/2025Institute for Historical ResearchFrom documenting dissent to mapping migration: community
heritage in action		ZOOM5:30pm – 7:00pmFREEMore information here
21/01/2025British Association for Local HistoryBreaking the Mold: Alberta Sturges, The Redefining of an American Heiress in the Gilded AgeVirtual7:00pm – 8:30pm£5.00 (FREE for BALH members.)More information here
17/01/2025Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History‘Colonial City as an Austere City: Insights from Sanitary Modernization of Colonial Madras’

Dr Viswanathan Venkataraman (KCL)		In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams 3:00pmFREEMore information here
16/01/2025Leicestershire FieldworkersIce Age JourneysRattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, 7:30pmFREEMore information here
15/01/2025Surrey HeritageOliver House: The story of a 16th century cottage. A talk by
Sarah Pettyfer		ZOOM£6.00More information here
12/12/2024Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyLeicester: an Anglo-Saxon diocese
A talk by Thomas Vare, PhD student, University of Leicester		Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)More information here
07/12/2024Medieval Settlement Research GroupAnnual General MeetingAttenborough Lecture Theatre 1, Main Campus, University of Leicester.More information here
05/12/2024Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyAnglo-Saxon settlement in Eye KettelbyFearon Hall, Rectory Road, Loughborough
05/12/2024British Association for Local HistoryEnglish merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities, c.1588–c.1765: BALH Dymond Lecture 2024On-lineMore information here
05/12/2024Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series‘Unpacking the Dryad ‘Handicrafts’ collection: towards a global movement of ‘arts and crafts’ in Leicester’ Maria Chiara Scuderi (Leicester)In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams 2:pmMore information here
29/11/2024East Midlands Oral History Archive‘More terraced housing in Leicester’ – workshopSatta Hashem Hall, Leicester Adult Education Centre, Wellington Street, Leicester LE1 6ZG.More information here
27/11/2024Surrey HeritageThe afterlives of executed bodies from Kennington
Common. A talk by Dr. Anna Cusack		ZOOMMore information here
27/11/2024Church Monuments Society‘The Style of the Dead: Why Classicism so often gets the best Sepulchral Gigs’ – Alexander Stoddart (King’s Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland)The Alan Baxter Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6BP, or online via ZOOMMore information here
23/11/2024Church Monuments SocietyFaith, Hope, Charity and the Regular Solids: Imagery and Symbolism on Church Monuments – Dr Jean WilsonZOOMMore information here
22/11/2024Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series‘”One can hardly believe that a great city ever flourished in this spot”: the construction of ancient Memphis’
Dr Rober Frost (Leicester)		In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams3:00pmMore information here
19/11/2024Friends of the Centre for English Local HistoryFCELH Annual General MeetingZOOMMore information here
16/11/2024Church Monuments Society‘Ghastly Grim’: the 17th Century Church Gateways of London – Dr Roger BowdlerZOOMMore information here
14/11/2024Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyLAHS Annual General MeetingRattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)More information here
14/11/2024British Association for Local HistoryMust we starve” the written testimony of the English and Welsh Victorian Poor: 1834 to 1900VirtualMore information here
14/11/2024Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyChurch-people and Social Change in 19th Century Leicestershire
LAHS Member and Author Nick Miller		Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)More information here
14/11/2024Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series‘See the Carnival. See the Camera Man. See Yourself on the Screen’ – Dr Conner Scott (Leicester)
In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams 2:00pmMore information here
13/11/2024Being Human Festival 2024Leicestershire Landmarks – Church Spires and their BuildersZOOMMore information here
13/11/2024Surrey HeritageSurrey WritersZOOMMore information here
01/11/2024Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar SeriesReinventing the town: How Colchester used the past in its place marketing activities in the long-nineteenth century – Dr Mike Sewell (Manchester Metropolitan)In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams 3:00pmMore information here
31/10/2024Church Monuments SocietyAnnual All Hallows Lecture:
‘Yet Nothing is more certaine than death, nor more uncertaine, than the houre theirof…’: – Cóilín Ó’Drisceoil (Office of Public Works, Ireland)		ZOOMMore information here
31/10/2024British Association for Local HistoryLocal Country Walks Through Colonial Britain)VirtualMore information here
30/10/2024Surrey HeritageBehind the Scenes in Conservation – Tithe MapsZOOMMore information here
26/10/2024Nottinghamshire Local History AssociationNottinghamshire History ForumVillage Hall
Ravenshead
Nottinghamshire
NG15 9BN		More information here
23/10/2024Surrey HeritageHighclere Castle and its archive. A talk by David RymillZOOMMore information here
18/10/2024Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar SeriesReimagining Leicester’s black spaces – Dr Sue Bishop (Leicester)In person Attenborough room 101, or via Teams3:00pmMore information here/
17/10/2024British Association for Local HistoryMaking the most of the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)VirtualMore information here
17/10/2024Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical SocietyAll Quiet on the Leicester Front? The US Military Race Disturbances of 1944
Vincent Holyoak, Part of Black History Month in Leicester.		Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)More information here
16/10/2024Friends of the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and RutlandTommy’s Mail – a talk by Peter CousinsThe Record Office, Long Street, Wigston LE18 2AHMore information here
12/10/2024British Association for Local HistoryBALH Conference: Maps and BuildingsSt Andrew’s Church Hall, Kingston Road, Taunton, TA2 7SBMore information here
12/10/2024Surrey Archaeological SocietyLocal History Symposium : Medieval SurreySurrey History Centre 130, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6ND.More information here
09/10/2024Surrey HeritageFrom Patient to Professor. A talk by Dr. Dan JacobsonZOOMMore information here
08/10/2024University of YorkYork and the North: The Black Death, 1349-1373 a lecture presented by
Professor Sarah Rees Jones, Department of History		ZOOM and in person at Room K/133, King’s Manor, Exhibition Square, University of YorkMore information here
05/10/2024Leicestershire & Rutland Family History SocietyLRFHS Golden Jubilee CelebrationLeicester Adult Education Centre, 54 Belvoir Street, Leicester LE1 5QLMore information here
03/10/2024 – THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLEDCentre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban History – Autumn 2024 Seminar Series‘Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Peter Fryers Black History classic Staying Power’ Gaverne Bennett (Leicester)THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLEDTHIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED