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Friends of the Centre for English Local History
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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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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 2h
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…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 2d
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…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 2d
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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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 3d
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…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 3d
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 …
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 3d
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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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 5d
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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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 7d
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 …
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 8d
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…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 9d
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 …
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 10d
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…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 14d
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…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 20d
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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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 21d
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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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 23d
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…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 23d
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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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 23d
Protest and the enclosure of urban public space in England from the late 18th century to the present.
Thursday 13th November, 2025. 2:00pm. Attenborough 101 and TEAMS. FREE. Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban HistoryAutumn 2025 Seminar Series. Presented by Prof. Katrina Na…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 23d
Historian of UK Black History: Peter Fryer and Staying Power.
Thursday 23rd October, 2025. 3:00pm. Attenborough 101 and TEAMS. FREE. Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban HistoryAutumn 2025 Seminar Series. Presented by Gaverne Bennett (…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 23d
Just for fun when the moon is shining’: Exploring Narratives of Dance in Early Colonial Malawi.
Friday 10th October, 2025. 3:00pm. Attenborough 101 and TEAMS. FREE. Centre for Regional and Local History & Centre for Urban HistoryAutumn 2025 Seminar Series. Presented by Dr. Zoe Groves (Uni…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 24d
Antiquarianism and Archaeology – Full day Conference.
Saturday 4th October, 2025. 9:30am – 4:30pm. Bishop Grosseteste University. £32. Uncovering Horkstow Pavement. Taken from Reliquiae Romanae 1801. Archaeological Conference in Lincoln with a s…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 24d
Ireland’s undiscovered past: the 1800s
Friday 3rd October, 2025. 2:00pm – 3:00pm. Online. FREE. The history of 19th-century Ireland was dominated by big events, big men and big problems. The Act of Union of 1800, the Great Famine,…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 24d
Cardinal Wolsey, 1525-2025: Still the King’s Cardinal?
Saturday 11th October, 2025. 9:45am – 4:00pm. Rewley House1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA. . From £125. Short and online courses. 1525 was a significant year in the reign of Henry VIII, …
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 24d
The Blood in Winter.
A Nation Descends, 1642. Dr. Jonathan Healey is Director of the MSc in English Local History and the Undergraduate Diploma in English Social and Local History at the University of Oxford. His new b…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 25d
Rutland Local History & Record Society – Our Local Viking Heritage.
Thursday 9th October, 2025. 7:30pm. Rutland County Museum. Professor Stephen Harding (Nottingham University) speaking on the Viking heritage of the local area, with particular reference to place na…
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Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social · 25d
Geoffrey Bond and Thoroton Society Research Awards
Application deadline extended. Geoffrey Bond, a life member of the Thoroton Society, has since the commencement of the Award generously provided funds to underwrite research into the history and ar…
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