The Wytham Project: Histories and Communities
The Wytham Estate was acquired by the University of Oxford in 1942, mainly as a gift, and is a site…
Friends Newsletter 2024
The evenings are drawing in and the leaves are beginning to fall so it must be time for another Friends…
Beresford’s Lost Villages
A website dedicated to deserted medieval villages. This website is was made possible by a generous legacy bequeathed to the…
Hoskins Day Presentations
In answer to a request that the series of lectures be named after him, Professor Hoskins replied as follows: Stoke…
Monthly Updates
Every month we circulate by email an update on events, conferences, activities, publications, reports and Friends notifications to anyone who…
The Next Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture.
Thursday 23rd January, 2025. 7:30pm. Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, University of Leicester. FREE. ‘Fieldworkers and Fieldschools: discovering a Roman…
Part-time qualifications in local history
Enrich and extend your knowledge of local history. Part-time local and social history courses concentrate on cultural and social aspects…
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure – Blogs
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure turns 60 this year. Since its founding in 1964,…
FCELH Annual General Meeting 2024
The Friends of the Centre for English Local History AGM will be held on Tuesday 19 November 2024 at 19:00…
Medieval Settlement Research Group Spring Conference 2025
Call for papers. The MSRG Spring Conference 2025 will take place over the weekend of 7-8 June at the University…
Research your family history using the General Register Office
You can order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) to help you…
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe
Defoe’s ‘Tour’ was first published in three volumes between 1724-26 and is a vivid account of thirteen circuits or ‘journies’…
Business Archives Council
Founded in 1934, the objectives of the BAC are to: The Council produces an electronic newsletter and the past publication…
What’s On
Local History meetings, seminars, events, exhibitions……… If you would like to have your events included here please email the details…
The Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society Lecture Programme.
New Walk Museum, the usual venue for LAHS lectures, will be unavailable for some time due to building work. These…
Belgrave Hall
Belgrave Hall was built as a substantial family home between 1709 and 1713 by Edmund Cradock, a Leicester hosiery merchant,…
The Battle of Naseby 1645
The Battle of Naseby in Northamptonshire on 14 June 1645 was one of the most important battles of the English…
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is now fully Open Access.
From 21 August 2024, all TRHS articles will be published ‘open access’ and freely available to read online. This means…
Peace and War : Friends Study Day
Saturday 5th April, 2025. All day. Thornby Hall and Naseby battlefield, Northamptonshire. Proposed Visit to Thornby Hall and Naseby Battlefield…
Children and Chimneys
From the late 18th century children formed a rising proportion of the population and it was common for them to…