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The New Dishley Society Celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the Birth of Robert Bakewell of Dishley Grange, Loughborough

Friday 30th May, 2025. 7:30pm. Loughborough University. FREE. The Tercentenary Lecture will be given by Mr John Thorley OBE, FRAgS,…

Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference 2025: Creeds, Councils and Canons.

15th – 17th July, 2025. . University of Edinburgh. . Keynote speakers: 2025 is the 1700th anniversary of the Council…

Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society: Programme of Events

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

Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society Annual General Meeting

Thursday 3rd April, 2025. 7:00pm. Fearon Hall, Rectory Road, Loughborough LE11 1PL. FREE for members. The Annual General Meeting of…

The Next Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society Presentation.

Resources for Family History Research in Leicestershire and Rutland. Monday 12th May, 2025. 2:00pm. ZOOM. Free to members, for non-members…

Elizabeth Heyrick (1769 -1831)

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

A new life for ‘British Printed Images to 1700’

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

Leicestershire Stories: Part 2.

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

Conversations in Graveyards: A Field Guide to the Social History of Memorials.

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

Charles Phythian-Adams

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

University honours pioneering archaeologist

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

The Making of the Lincolnshire Landscape Conference

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

History (Local History) MA

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

The British Records Association

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

Winner of the Janette Harley Prize 2024

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

Professor Nicola Verdon BA, MA, PhD.

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

Eleanor Frewen Turner

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

Historic London tramways posters on display

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

The Cossington Necklace

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

LAHS History Fair 2025

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