Events

Saturday 5 July 2025 at 10.00am

LAHS History Fair 2025

Join us at Oakham Castle!

Sunday 6 July 2025 at 9.00am

2025 Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology

From 5th July to 3rd August. Part of the National Festival of Archaeology, supported by LAHS

Thursday 25 September 2025 at 7.30pm

Scarborough Lecture: The Medieval Jewish Communities of the East Midlands

Dr Dean Irwin of the University of Lincoln.

Thursday 16 October 2025 at 7.30pm

Edwardian Leicester

Social Historian and Author, LAHS Newsletter and Reviews Editor, Cynthia Brown.

Thursday 22 January 2026 at 7.30pm

30 Years of British Comedy

Geoff Rowe, Founder of the Leicester Comedy Festival.

Thursday 12 February 2026 at 7.30pm

2026 LAHS Members’ Evening

Members present their own research.

Thursday 12 March 2026 at 7.30pm

North Lecture: Emperor Septimius Severus and Roman Leicester’s links to North Africa.

Dr Simon Elliott, FSA Archaeologist and Historian.