Leicestershire VCH Trust

Gaddesby's fantastic, but so is Ashby Folville too, and I love the font. It's a freezing cold church in winter though.

They are beautiful. Reminded me of these (Ashby Folville, Leics). Ballflower added to square window to match the other?

Our next zoom talk. Booking info on the poster - all welcome.

🫏 Take a trip to our Sandham Bridge geosite, and discover this beautiful packhorse bridge.

🌐 Plan your visit now: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/san...

William Paget died in 1865. He founded a large hosiery business in Loughborough, was part owner of a coal mine & a corn milling business & farmed c.700 a. land in S. Notts. How long did it take to get probate? 3 weeks! 22 days to be precise, but one of those days was Christmas Day. How times change

The Generator: Stories and Memories - an oral history project supported by @heritagefunduk

We’ve captured the voices, recollections and experiences of those who studied, worked and created in the historic Packe Street building over the decades.

Layers of history revealed in the walls, floors + surfaces of our Art Deco building. each texture is a chapter in The Generator’s journey from power station> art college> community arts venue.

February Forum: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play - Leicester Vaughan College Miriam Gill shares how fragmentary stained glass may develop our understanding of the spectacular finale of Coventry's missing Mystery Plays, the Drapers' play of the Last Judgement.

Our February Forum will be online, 15 Feb at 6.15pm. Dr Miriam Gill will be talking on ‘Tantalizing Fragments: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play’
To find out more👇
vaughan.coop/course/febru...

👍 Thank you to our fabulous volunteers who helped install a Geopark Information Hub in Woodhouse Eaves yesterday.

👉 The Hub also hosts the Woodhouse Eaves Earthquake Geosite, with interpretation on the tremor of 1893. Plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/woo...

Save the date and cfp.
A grand day out at the beautiful, grade 1 listed Wymeswold
Church, Leics (UK).
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Congratulations @dralexcraven.bsky.social VCH Hampshire and @hobnobpress.bsky.social this looks really interesting

trees beside a small brook

Not gone back to work yet? Looking for a new history walk in Leicestershire? Look no further, we have prepared two in Nanpantan nwrg2.uk/heritage/

⭐️ Recap of 2025 - Our Biggest Stories of the Year ⭐️

👉 In September Melinda Bell discovered the Candelabra Coral Fungus at Copt Oak, Charnwood Forest - this first time this species has been recorded in Leicestershire.

🌐 Read more on the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A fantastic little book this - Jane's letters, with observations on social life, the state of the roads, the practices of the parish church and much else - add insights into a village now completely different to the one she knew.

Pretty much the only building left from her time is the church. 🗃️

Thornton is also one of the Leicestershire places our first group of volunteer history researchers will be investigating as part of a project funded by Charnwood Forest Geopark and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. More at www.charnwoodforest.org/new-local-hi... @vch-home.bsky.social

A large red brick building

Victorian Entertainment. On this day in 1865, in this Sunday school room in #Loughborough, the Revd C.C. Coe read Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol 'without intermission for two hours'. (British Newspaper Archive) #localhistory @vch-home.bsky.social

A picture of a Newsletter

Our latest Newsletter is now available to download. See leicestershirehistory.co.uk?page_id=3681 Find out more about our new project in the Charnwood Forest Geopark area (and thanks to them and to National Lottery for funding this).

Very many congratulations. I hope all runs smoothly and the glories of Charnwood and its rocks receive the international recognition they deserve.

Advocating for History by Doing History - On History This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...

A great blog from @ihr.bsky.social director, @clairelanghamer.bsky.social advocating 'History by Doing', bridging the gaps between the histories of people and places where we live, and work and those universities teach/research and delve into: they're all one. 🗃️

You want examples? A short 🧵

Map created by the brilliant @shaunawaterman at Penguin Press, which helps us see how my book takes us inside different places across England. (Poems were pinned to places on the map for various reasons, and there are definitely conversations to be had there!)

#Talk: 'From Nation to Local: Re-Discovering England’s Places through #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems'. What happens to our understanding of the nation when we start at the very smallest scale? Friday 28 November, 3pm, University of Leicester - all welcome! www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2025/09/2...

An antiquarian book opened on some illustrated pages.

We had a great pilot session for our new school workshops! If your KS3-5 students would enjoy a free workshop exploring Magna Carta & the Making of History (&featuring fab primary sources) contact learning@sal.org.uk. Scheme kindly supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Farrer & Co.

Bit of a competition going on yesterday among the fallen oak leaves in Victoria Park - who will collect the most acorns?

We have amazing minerals in Charnwood Forest!

🔷 Azurite
🟩 Malachite

They both contain copper, but with vividly different colours!

📍 New Cliffe Hill Quarry
🏛 Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Can be those more than a century old too - e.g. school log book started in the 1890s that continues until the book runs out of pages in the 1930s.

Was just wondering when #Sainsbury's opened in Loughborough, and found the wonderful Sainsbury archive online, with press release from Jan 1985, brochure and lots of photos www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/se...

I love the feeling of stillness in the Outwoods, and the birdsong (but perhaps not so much birdsong in the rain).

Manorial rolls are vital sources for medieval settlement history, and many survive, but unfortunately many are now in the USA. Documents recording the medieval history of several Leicestershire settlements are in the Huntington library, California.

This is really interesting - taking the sort of work we do (analysing historic documents and landscape elements, buildings, and place names), and using that to attempt to reconstruct a village, a place, as it was 700 years ago. #Skystorians

👩🏫 Are you involved in a school or educational group in and around Charnwood Forest?

📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.

🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...