We aim to publish short pieces on a wide range of topics relating to different aspects of Leicestershire and Rutland’s past. If you have an interest or research project that you would like to share through the blog or an idea for one to explore further, please contact us at website@lahs.org.uk.
Sunday 8 December 2024
Guest blogger, Andy Lear, explores both the historic woodland boundaries and the possible location of a medieval deer park at Launde Abbey.
Sunday 1 December 2024
LAHS Vice-President, Squire Gerard de Lisle, reflects on his family’s long association with the county.
Sunday 24 November 2024
Guest blogger, John Parker, retraces the footsteps of Susanna Watts. Abolitionist, author, translator, and artist.
Sunday 17 November 2024
LAHS Member Bob Trubshaw reviews the abundant evidence now available from archaeological, iconographical, place-name and landscape studies.
Sunday 10 November 2024
LAHS Newsletter & Reviews Editor, Cynthia Brown, explores the unsettling practice of mesmerism in early Victorian Leicester.
Sunday 3 November 2024
LAHS Member Stuart Evans, assesses the context and use of pit alignments and field systems in Bronze Age Leicestershire.
Wednesday 30 October 2024
LAHS Member Steve Marquis explores his own connection to the 10th Century Viking occupation of Leicester.
Sunday 27 October 2024
LAHS Trustee, Elizabeth Tingle explores themes of travel, globalisation and slavery, through the life of this Tudor merchant adventurer.
Sunday 20 October 2024
Guest blogger, Andy Lear of the Wildlife Trust, sets out to re-discover the location of a lost area of woodland.
Sunday 13 October 2024
LAHS Vice-President Robert Hartley provides a personal insight into this landmark Bronze Age site dig.
Sunday 6 October 2024
LAHS Vice-President Robert Hartley considers the long history of human activity in this distinctive landscape.
Sunday 6 October 2024
LAHS Member Brian Screaton uncovers the unexpected origins of the street names of this Leicester post-war housing estate.
Sunday 29 September 2024
LAHS Member Dave Fogg Postles presents a case study from Victorian Loughborough exploring an aspect of the impact of this Act.
Sunday 29 September 2024
LAHS Member Bob Trubshaw explores the history of these ancient trackways.
Sunday 22 September 2024
LAHS Member Dr Pam Fisher explores the founding of an early mid-18th century workhouse.
Sunday 16 June 2024
LAHS Newsletter Editor, Cynthia Brown presents the life of Charles Camille Caillard, a French nobleman who made his home in 19th Century Leicester
Sunday 9 June 2024
LAHS Member Steve Marquis takes a look at the history of witchcraft prosecutions in 17th and 18th Century Leicestershire.
Sunday 2 June 2024
LAHS Member Jakub Milcarz considers life in the Polish Resettlement Camps of post-war Leicestershire.
Sunday 26 May 2024
Joan Shaw and Bob Trubshaw examine the little known history of alabaster quarrying in Leicestershire.
Sunday 19 May 2024
LAHS Member Stuart Evans examines the evidence of a Neolithic and Early Bronze Age ritual landscape on the northeast boundary of Leicestershire with Lincolnshire.