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Our aim is to promote, support, and assist in the study of Local History as taught and practised in the Centre for Regional and Local History (formerly the Centre for English Local History) at the University of Leicester

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Call for Papers: Conference Saturday 11th April 2026. 10am to 4.30pm. St Mary’s Church, Wymeswold, Leicestershire. The Rev. Henry Alford, A.W.N. Pugin and the Restoration of St Mary’s Church, Wymeswold: ecclesiology & architecture in 19th-century Leicestershire. …
15.11.2025 11:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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First World War Research Guides. Explore expert research guides to help you uncover your family’s wartime past. Find practical tips for tracing military records, from soldiers and sailors to nurses, battles, and battalions. …
07.11.2025 11:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Survey of India half-inch to the mile mapping, 1912-1951 The National Library of Scotland has added online an additional 1,860 Survey of India maps, at the half-inch to the mile scale. These provide detailed coverage of large parts of India as well as th…
05.11.2025 14:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grace Dieu Priory The Friends’ second outing for 2025 found us assembling at the Museum at Ashby-de-la-Zouch on a Saturday morning in late September. Here our study focus was Grace Dieu Priory, an Augustinian nunner…
28.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Friends Newsletter October 2025. Welcome to the Friends Newsletter for 2025. This edition is packed with news and items of interest for the discerning local historian. Read on to see the positive side of belonging to the Friends, …
27.10.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sceptred Isle: a new history of the 14th century. Friday 7th November, 2025. 2:00pm – 3:00pm. Online. FREE. Join historian Helen Carr for a fresh look at a century of revolution, shifting power and unprecedented change. Beginning with the de…
25.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Mick Aston Lecture: The Complex Lives of Medieval Ritual Objects. Friday 28th November, 2025. 4:45pm – 6:15pm Online or Rewley House. . From £15. This lecture is in memory of Mick Aston. Mick was a tutor in local studies at the Department before moving to B…
25.10.2025 12:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Researching a War Memorial Wednesday 12th November, 2025. 7:30pm. Oadby Granville Tennis Club. FREE to members.. From Oadby Remembers, Jan Bryars (Chair) and Sue Lester (Researcher) tell the story of the research carried out…
24.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Surrey Poor Law Union minute books. The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 created a series of Poor Law Unions governed by Boards of Guardians. This system replaced the individual parish Overseers of the Poor which had been in existence sin…
23.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oxford University Associate Professor in Social History publishes acclaimed new book on the Civil War. Written by Dr Jonathan Healey, Associate Professor in Social History and Course Director for the Diploma in English Social and Local History and the MSc in English Local History, the book offe…
23.10.2025 07:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Roman Small Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland. Thursday 13th November, 2025. 7:30pm. Clephan 0.01, De Montfort University, Leicester. FREE. Presented by Peter Liddle, former county archaeologist. The lecture will examine the evidence for Roman …
21.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Surrey Heritage Online Talks: At Home in History. Saturday 10th December, 2025. 5:30pm – 16:45pm. ZOOM. £6. Reflections on writing the history of domestic life. A talk by Jane Hamlett, Professor of Modern British History at Royal Holloway Co…
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Surrey Heritage Online Talks: Celebrating R C Sherriff. Saturday 8th November, 2025. 10:30am – 12:15pm. ZOOM. £6. R C Sherriff November 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the Surrey author R C Sherriff (1896-1975). This talk celebrate…
21.10.2025 11:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Lithic Studies Society Annual Conference 2025. Friday 7th November, 2025. 10:00am – 5:00pm. Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL), LE1 5SN. See booking form.. The LSSA annual conference this year is coming to the city of Leicester, hosted…
21.10.2025 10:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Nicola Verdon Memorial Fund The Nicola Verdon Memorial Fund has been launched. It provides financial support to help early career researchers in agricultural and rural history to attend conferences and undertake research (inc…
16.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Historian’s Craft and the VCH Spalding Project. Saturday 15th November, 2025. 10:00am – 4:00pm. Spalding Baptist Church. Swan Street, Spalding, PE11 1BT.. FREE. The Victoria County History Spalding Research Programme invite you to a FREE i…
14.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Rethinking Old English Toponyms. Richard Jones, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester. The analysis of English place-names has, for the last ninety years, been framed in post-Enlightenment Cartesian terms. Focu…
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Oxford’s Black and Muslim migration stories. Friday 7th November, 2025. 2:00pm – 4:30pm. Museum of Oxford. FREE. This seminar will be led by the ‘Place for We’ and ‘Muslim History of Oxford’ project teams @ Learn…
13.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oxford Health Histories and Local Policy. Friday 24th October, 2025. 2:00pm – 4:30pm. Museum of Oxford. FREE. This workshop will be led by Dr Sally Frampton and Prof Erica Charters @ Museum of Oxford. Throughout October and November …
13.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Marching Through Time: a workshop on the history of protest in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Friday 17th October, 2025. 2:00pm – 4:30pm. Museum of Oxford. FREE. Throughout October and November 2025, the Community History Hub is running a new six-part event series that will be open to…
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Responding to Modern Flooding: Old English Place-Names as a Repository of Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Jones, Richard L.C.. “Responding to Modern Flooding: Old English Place-Names as a Repository of Traditional Ecological Knowledge.” Journal of Ecological Anthropology 18, no. 1 (2016): .…
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Society for Museum Archaeology Conference 2025. 13th and 14th November, 2025. All day. Museum of Liverpool. £35 – £100. The conference celebrates the successes of Museum Archaeology over the past 50 years and looks forward to the possible …
09.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Leicester Cathedral Revealed: uncovering 2,000 years of history beneath the Cathedral Gardens. Saturday 1st November, 2025. 10:00am – 4:30pm. Sir Bob Burgess Building, University of Leicester, Welford Road, Leicester, LE2 6BF. FREE. This day of talks will reveal what archaeologists fro…
08.10.2025 11:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Almshouses: Past, Present and Local. Robert doesn’t tend to advertise his talks (even though he does 60+ a year), but his latest subject is proving quite popular.”Almshouses: Past, Present and Local” gives a general …
07.10.2025 11:06 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk. Tuesday 4th November, 2025. 10:00am – 4:30pm. The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street London EC1M 6EL . £35 – £55. Join the BRA as they examine past, present and future risk to UK archives and discus…
06.10.2025 10:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Volunteers Wanted for Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. LAHS is looking to recruit a number of volunteers for its editorial and committee roles. Hon. Co-Editor of the Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. With the imm…
02.10.2025 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lieutenant Joshua Gregory (1790-1838): His Life in Context by Philip H. Marsh. This book traces the family of Joshua Gregory, father of Sir August Charles Gregory who became Surveyor General of Queensland in Australia, from their Nottinghamshire connections in the 16th centur…
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The Lincolnshire Fens and Waterways: Folklore, Identity and Ecology. Thursday 9th October, 2025. 7:00pm. Fearon Hall. £5, FREE to members. This talk by Dr. James Chantry explores the historical draining of the fens in the 17th century and the wellspring of folklore …
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Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500 – 1800. Wednesday 15th October, 2025. 5:30pm. The London Archives. £10. An illustrated talk by Professor Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics). Discover how London came to dominate the economy and po…
23.09.2025 19:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From Nation to Local: Re-Discovering England’s Places through A History of England in 25 Poems. Friday 28th November, 2025. 3:00pm. Attenborough 101 and TEAMS. FREE. Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban HistoryAutumn 2025 Seminar Series. Presented by Prof. Catherine Cl…
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