New Chief Executive at The Society of Genealogists
The Society of Genealogists has appointed Philip Spedding as its new Chief Executive. Philip joins the Society from the Royal…
The Rendlesham Project
Anglo-Saxon Life in South-East Sussex Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service is running a community archaeology project called “Rendlesham Revealed” from…
Susanna Watts
Colin Hyde’s presentation for Hoskins Day 2024 features Susanna Watts (1768–1842) who was a noted English abolitionist, author, translator and…
Hallaton Helmet
2000-year-old Roman cavalry helmet from Hallaton recreated thanks to a grant from Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. Harborough Museum’s replica…
English merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities, c.1588–c.1765
BALH Dymond Lecture 2024. On Thursday 5th December 2024 between 7:00pm – 8:00pm Professors Craig Lambert and John McAleer will…
Economies Past
Over the last 20 years, a team of historians at Cambridge have collected millions of records to build, for England…
100 Ballads.
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: Fellow of the Society for Army Historical Research
Andrew Hopper, Professor in Local and Social History in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford (and…
Regional & Local History
Since local boot and shoe manufacturer Thomas Hatton donated his collection of books on antiquarianism the University of Leicester Library…
Archives & Special Collections
The University of Leicester Library has extensive collections of rare books, manuscripts, historical photographs, engraved portrait prints and personal archives;…
The National Farm Survey, 1941–1943
The National Farm Survey was created during the Second World War to increase food production and to plan for post-war…
Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society – Grants and Prizes
The Society was founded in 1855 “to promote the study of the history, archaeology, antiquities, and architecture of the county”,…
1000 years of London’s History
London Metropolitan Archives. LMA is a public research centre which specialises in the history of London, caring for and providing…
Did You Know – Society of Genealogists
The Society of Genealogists possesses the largest family history research library in the United Kingdom, accessible to all members without…
Special Collections On-line
Welcome to our online heritage collections, free and open to all. Building on our strengths in local, urban and industrial…
Discoveries and Outcomes of Civil War Petitions
A 4-minute video of Ismini Pells and Andrew Hopper discussing the findings of the Civil War Petitions Project here: https://www.civilwarpetitions.ac.uk/discoveries-and-outcomes-of-civil-war-petitions/…
Upside Down World
A new 5-minute video from former Centre for English Local History MA student and Midland History prizewinner Denise Greany discussing the Education…
The World Turned Upside Down
People, events and ideas of the British Civil Wars explored and explained by leading historians including Friends of the Centre…
Stories of ‘ordinary medieval folk’
Dr Sarah Inskip, researcher on After the Plague, and now at the Centre for Regional and Local History, University of…
Hoskins Lectures
The first annual lecture, sponsored by the Friends, was given on May 19th 1990. In answer to a request that…