Leicester Branch of the Historical Association
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Leicester Historical Association retweeted
On 11 March 2025 @Serena_Dyer will be in conversation with @historymatt about his new book: Shoes and the Georgian Man. Come along to hear about what footwear tells us about men and their bodies in the long eighteenth century.
Book your free place: eventbrite.com/e/in-conversa…
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
A reminder about our talk in February on the maritime archeology of the Roman Empire.
On 11 February 2025 Mike Curtis of the Northamptonshire Archaeological Society will be talking about the maritime archaeology of the Roman Empire.
Book a free place here: eventbrite.com/e/talk-the-ma…
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Coming soon....
Online talk alert...
"Leicestershire Landmarks - Church Spires and their Builders" eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-hum… @Eventbrite
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Next talk on 12 November: 'Vehicles to Vaccines – British manufacturing since 1951.'" eventbrite.com/e/talk-vehicl… @Eventbrite
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Online talk alert...
"Leicestershire Landmarks - Church Spires and their Builders" eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-hum… @Eventbrite
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Check out our next talk on 10 Sept: "Lubaaba Al-Azami In Conversation: 'Writing Travellers in the Golden Realm’" eventbrite.com/e/lubaaba-al-… @Eventbrite
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Teachers are getting a well-deserved pay rise.
The Conservatives left the profession overstretched and undervalued. We said we’d change that, and we meant it.
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Check out "An Archaeology of Baptism in Ten Leicestershire Fonts" eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-archae… @Eventbrite
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Coming soon......
Next talk: Dr Rob Lutton on ‘Wycliffe, Lollardy and Leicester: origins, significance, and legacy.’
Date: 14 May 18.00
Venue: De Montfort University, Clephan Building
Free entry.
Lutterworth volume will be available from @LEICSVCHT
Event in partnership with @LeicesHCT
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Our next lecture is on Thursday 2nd May 2024 on Excavations at St Anne's Charterhouse in Coventry, by Andy McCleish of ULAS.
Coffee/tea from 7pm.
Talk starts at 7.30pm.
In Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, New Walk. Free entry.
lahs.org.uk/events/excavatio…
ALT Charterhouse building, Coventry. By Carmen McLean-Ellmann, Oliver Ellmann (Wikipedia Takes Coventry participant) - Uploaded from Wikipedia Takes Coventry, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21092355
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Next talk: Dr Rob Lutton on ‘Wycliffe, Lollardy and Leicester: origins, significance, and legacy.’
Date: 14 May 18.00
Venue: De Montfort University, Clephan Building
Free entry.
Lutterworth volume will be available from @LEICSVCHT
Event in partnership with @LeicesHCT
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Next Talk: "Gone but not Forgotten: Jewish property in post-Expulsion England" 12 March 6pm. Free, online & all welcome
@histassoc @historymatt
eventbrite.com/e/lecture-gon…
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Dr Rob Lutton will give a talk on Wycliffe, the Lollards and Leicestershire - Tuesday 14 May 18.00 at De Montfort University. Jointly organised by @LeicesHCT @HistAss @DMUHistory
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Serendipity - coming 13 February.
Invite your friends as well (link in email below)
@historymatt @DMUHistory @histassoc
Our next online talk is on 13 February 2023 at 18.00. Pawlet Brookes MBE will talk about the work of Serendipity in Black British Arts and Heritage.
@histassoc @dmuslrc @SerendipityInfo
Book here:
eventbrite.com/e/lecture-ser… @Eventbrite
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Coming soon .... remember to book your place!
Our next online talk is on 13 February 2023 at 18.00. Pawlet Brookes MBE will talk about the work of Serendipity in Black British Arts and Heritage.
@histassoc @dmuslrc @SerendipityInfo
Book here:
eventbrite.com/e/lecture-ser… @Eventbrite
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Our next online talk is on 13 February 2023 at 18.00. Pawlet Brookes MBE will talk about the work of Serendipity in Black British Arts and Heritage.
@histassoc @dmuslrc @SerendipityInfo
Book here:
eventbrite.com/e/lecture-ser… @Eventbrite
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
We have a winner for #HeritageTreasuresDay! 🪙
Our collection of Leicester postcards, c 1900-1950 depict areas of the medieval precinct now part of @dmuleicester campus. Read on for more...
@LibraryDMU @explorearchives @ArchiveHashtag @HistAss #Leicester #localhistory #heritage
ALT Tinted postcard of a medieval steeple church and gateway with cobble street.
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
Interestingly, many of the postcards featuring the gateway leading to the castle are labelled 'Rupert's Gateway' but this is incorrect. Rupert's Gateway was situated on Bonners Lane - a mistake often still made today.
@LibraryDMU @explorearchives @ArchiveHashtag @HistAss
ALT Black and white image of medieval gateway and steeple church. People and a carriage can be seen on a cobbled street.
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
#GreenMonday & ICYMI: The award-winning Queens Building @dmuleicester celebrates 30 years since its royal opening 👑♻️🏅
For more about this pioneering #sustainable space visit our blog: library.dmu.ac.uk/archivesbl…
@DMUforlife @explorearchives @SustainableDMU @LibraryDMU @HistAss
ALT Colour photograph of Queen Elizabeth II arriving at DMU.
ALT Aerial colour photograph of the red brick Queens building.
Leicester Historical Association retweeted
A reminder that @WarwickHistory is offering up to two PhD Scholarships in the (global) history of travel and travel writing. Applications are now invited for 2024 (with two more to be advertised next year). Deadline: 23 January 2024.
Please share widely! jobs.ac.uk/job/DEI971/phd-st…