Sunday 27 October 2024
Leicestershire’s Marco Polo? Anthony Jenkinson (1529-1611)
LAHS Trustee, Elizabeth Tingle explores themes of travel, globalisation and slavery, through the life of this Tudor merchant adventurer.
Sunday 20 October 2024
Ghost Woods of Leighfield Forest
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
The Mysterious Archaeology of Saltby Heath: Part 2 The Excavations
LAHS Vice-President Robert Hartley provides a personal insight into this landmark Bronze Age site dig.
Sunday 6 October 2024
The Mysterious Archaeology of Saltby Heath: Part 1 The Heath
LAHS Vice-President Robert Hartley considers the long history of human activity in this distinctive landscape.
Sunday 6 October 2024
Thurnby Lodge Street Names: A mystery solved (with the aid of LAHS)
LAHS Member Brian Screaton uncovers the unexpected origins of the street names of this Leicester post-war housing estate.
Sunday 29 September 2024
A Wife’s Dilemma: Debt and The Married Women’s Property Act
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
Salt Ways In Leicestershire
LAHS Member Bob Trubshaw explores the history of these ancient trackways.
Sunday 22 September 2024
Loughborough’s First Workhouse
LAHS Member Dr Pam Fisher explores the founding of an early mid-18th century workhouse.
Sunday 16 June 2024
‘Almost an Englishman’ – a French refugee and his family in Leicester
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
‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ Witchcraft in Leicestershire
LAHS Member Steve Marquis takes a look at the history of witchcraft prosecutions in 17th and 18th Century Leicestershire.
Sunday 2 June 2024
Polish Resettlement Camps in Leicestershire
LAHS Member Jakub Milcarz considers life in the Polish Resettlement Camps of post-war Leicestershire.
Sunday 26 May 2024
The ‘Forgotten’ Alabaster of Burton on the Wolds
Joan Shaw and Bob Trubshaw examine the little known history of alabaster quarrying in Leicestershire.
Sunday 19 May 2024
A Ritual Landscape
LAHS Member Stuart Evans examines the evidence of a Neolithic and Early Bronze Age ritual landscape on the northeast boundary of Leicestershire with Lincolnshire.
Sunday 12 May 2024
At the Going Down of the Sun
LAHS Member Denis Kenyon shares his experiences as co-founder of the Leicester City, County & Rutland At Risk War Memorials Project.
Sunday 5 May 2024
A Picture Postcard Puzzle: The burial and re-burial of Friar John
LAHS Member Nick Miller recounts the intriguing story of a medieval burial, re-discovered in Edwardian times on the site of an old friary, culminating in a funeral to remember for a local town.
Sunday 28 April 2024
New Angles on Saxon Leicestershire
LAHS member (and archaeologist at ULAS) Dr Gavin Speed, has recently co-authored a new book on the important discoveries of an early Anglo-Saxon settlement from Eye Kettleby. Here he looks at the growing archaeological evidence for the people and their places in early Anglo-Saxon Leicestershire and Rutland.
Sunday 21 April 2024
675 years ago, this weekend: a field headland at the Kilby parish boundary
LAHS Treasurer Simon Atkins assesses what features in the landscape can tell us about the past, through an analysis of maps and LIDAR images, combined with what is still visible today.
Sunday 14 April 2024
The persistence of patronage and the composition of the Anglican Clergy in the Archdeaconry of Leicester, c.1850-1903
LAHS Member Dave Fogg Postles considers the continuing influence of patronage, reviewing both who owned the rights to put forward clergy for appointment to vicarages and providing examples demonstrating what this meant in practice as to who might then be appointed.
Sunday 7 April 2024
Snakes with glass eyes and other distractions…
LAHS Newsletter and Reviews Editor, Cynthia Brown illustrates the power of sometimes allowing yourself to be driven by simple curiosity and a more random approach when considering local history research.
Monday 1 April 2024
Leicestershire and Rutland’s Holy Wells
LAHS Member Bob Trubshaw takes a fresh look at some of the area's Holy Wells, exploring both their roots and the folklore surrounding them.