📅 Sir George Trevelyan, politician and author, died on this day in 1928. 🗳 Born at Rothley Temple, Charnwood Forest, he went on to hold a number of ministerial roles, including Secretary of State for Scotland.
Leicestershire VCH Trust
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Working with volunteers across the county, our aim is to research from primary sources and publish a history of every town and village in Leicestershire
This is beautiful. A huge and complex building to draw, but the colours really bring out its beauty.
Hayley Draws Churches@hayleyfern.bsky.social · 7d agoThe colours here are interesting.The sunlight keeps changing the way it looks, which is why I NEVER work from photographs.. It would be so flat compared to the effects of the sun, the wind, the clouds, the shadows. All I can say is that I look and I find the colours by looking.
Now, we published our account of the parish of Hambleton forty years earlier. Rutland Water flooded the hamlet of Middle Hambleton and Nether, or Lower Hambleton. Read what they were like, and our history of these lost places @bho.bsky.social. #Skystorians 2/2
Parishes: Hambleton | British History Online
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This looks interesting. The tours should be good - there's a huge amount of recent research on this church and its carvings, and the chance to visit the tower gives the opportunity to see the original Angel, not the copy downstairs.
'An implacable civil war' - when Sunday fun split a town #Leicestershire #BBCNews
'An implacable civil war' - when Sunday fun split Leicester
A public music show - controversially held on a Sunday - led to a court case and political upheaval.
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Leicestershire has six towns hoping to be chosen as Town of Culture 2028: Ashby, Coalville, Hinckley, Loughborough, Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray. You can read their postcard applications (and those of other towns) here www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...
Town of Culture 2028 | Applicants - Google My Maps
Town of Culture 2028 | Applicants
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‘The toolkit offers a structured, high-level guide to help cultural heritage professionals and researchers approach legacy media across its entire lifecycle…It also gives researchers a reference point for engaging critically with legacy media as historical subjects in their own right.’
New toolkit offers practical guide to preserving legacy media
A newly launched toolkit offers practical guidance to cultural heritage professionals and researchers on preserving fragile and outdated media formats.
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You might be wondering how this decline in the number of people entering academic disciplines in the humanities affects something like a project devoted to researching, writing, and publishing histories of place (or local histories)? These early career researchers are essential to our work. 🗃️ 1/5
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last mo.In perhaps our most devastating briefing we find early career staff in the humanities as a whole have declined by 20% since 2016/17. Between 23/24 and 24/25 early career staff across all SHAPE subject areas fell by 6%, (from 52,795 to 49,410 FPE). That is the pipeline for our disciplines
Last few weeks of the Shelthorpe 100 exhibition at the Loughborough Library Local and Family History Centre. Don't miss it. Celebrations of 100 years of Shelthorpe Estate. Free entry during staffed hours. #loughborough #library #CultureLeics #Shelthorpe
As well as talks and a display about Nanpantan at Loughborough's Old Rectory Museum on Saturday (4 July), we also have a guided walk along Nanpantan Road, either Thursday 16th or Wednesday 22 July, booking essential #FestivalofArchaeology
⛏ Join the Geopark online, this Sunday, for a very special livestream bringing you live coverage of the community archaeological digs in Woodhouse and Woodhouse Eaves. 📆 Sun 5 July, 1.30-3pm 🌐 More information and links to join: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/geopar...
Being at Chalke History Festival reminds me yet again how interconnected university-based history and other forms of history-making are. The thing we do in one place explicitly supports the thing we do in another. University cuts, closures and job losses harm the entire history eco-system.
Advocating for History by Doing History - On History
This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...
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👉 We're looking for new Trustees to help us shape the future of Charnwood Forest Geopark. 🌐 Find out more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/charnwood-fo...
Congratulations to all involved. We understand a little of the commitment required - our VCH history of Loughborough (only post 1750 and only social and cultural history at the moment) is "just" 100,000 words but has kept us occupied for what seems like ages. Out later this year. Watch this space.
Adam Chapman@adamchapman.bsky.social · 2mo agoHuge thanks to @vch-oxon.bsky.social and @dbcrouch.bsky.social for bringing these books together - between them totalling over 500,000 words, over 200 images, over 40 maps, with tables, floorplans and everything from huge prehistoric earthworks to F1 cars.
One of Charnwood's gems. There are many incredible examples of oaks that have grown for many years in places where it is difficult to understand how their roots can support them.
Charnwood Forest Geopark@charnwoodforest.bsky.social · 2mo ago🌳 Charnwood Forest: where ancient rocks and oaks live side by side
🪦 Journey back more than half a billion years to our Tremendous Teichichnus geosite in Thurcaston, and uncover the story of mysterious traces within the gravestones... 🌐 Plan your visit on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/tre... #geology #EarthScience ⚒️🧪
The full programme for Leicestershire's contribution to the Festival of Archaeology includes many NEW history and archaeology talks, walks and hands-on events, etc. We have a walk in Nanpantan and a short talk at Loughborough Old Rectory Museum event. See leicsfieldworkers.org/festival-of-...
Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology
2025 PROGRAMME NOW LIVE! Saturday 5th July – Sunday 3rd August
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🚡 Did you know that the origins of the ski lift can be traced back to a Charnwood Forest innovation? ℹ️ Discover the story of the Markfield Wire Tramway with a visit to our Hill Hole Information Hub. 🌐 Plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/mar...
Many VCH publications today are only possible through the excellent research of our community volunteers. We provide training and they give freely of their time to projects including the last 4 and next 2 (+ more?) VCH Leics publications. We are very grateful to them and to those providing funding
Victoria County History@vch-home.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe enormous value of the work of people outside formal academic structures (like universities, and to some extent, archives and local authorities), to our work - and the work of a great many historians and archaeologists - cannot be understated. Brian and Moira Gittos are just two examples.
Our #Archaeology Discovery Circle webpage is now live! Join us in a launch event on July 28! vaughan.coop/archaeology-...
Archaeology Discovery Circle - Leicester Vaughan College
A Vaughan Discovery Circle for those interested in Archaeology.
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🙏 Thank you to everyone who participated in the community archaeological digs in Stanton under Bardon this weekend! 🌐 Want to grab a glimpse of some of the things we found? Check out the recording of our livestream: www.youtube.com/live/9vid5dQ...
This is an otherwise very legible Leicestershire probate inventory for a yeoman farmer in the 1730s. But Wagons and what? faelts? What are they? any ideas anyone? It's probably not much help, but they are worth £12 within an inventory total of £429 @vch-home.bsky.social @materialwills.bsky.social
Discovered last week that the 'live' Newtown Linford broadcast can also be watched on 'catch up' on You Tube, complete with 'mystery item'. Wonder what will they find at Stanton?
Charnwood Forest Geopark@charnwoodforest.bsky.social · 3mo ago🌟 Following the success of our Community Digs Live broadcast from Newtown Linford, join us this Sunday for live coverage of the archaeological digs in Stanton Under Bardon. 🌐 More info on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/geopar...
📰 Mountsorrel Village Museum Unveils New Geopark Corner 🌟 Our Geopark Corner in Mountsorrel features displays on the local geology, as well as amazing fossil replicas and animations! 🌐 Plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/mountsorrel-...
Very best wishes to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday today. An amazing man and a wonderful new sculpture in the Geopark to celebrate
Charnwood Forest Geopark@charnwoodforest.bsky.social · 3mo ago🥳 Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough! We're celebrating with the unveiling of a new geosite at Beacon Hill, featuring an amazing sculpture of the Charnwood Forest fossil Auroralumina attenboroughii! 🌐 Read more: www.charnwoodforest.org/fossil-sculp...
We're so pleased that 500 of you now follow us on YouTube! To watch our Ten Minute Talks and look back on some of our events, why not take a look at our channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCZt... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
⛏ Join the Geopark online, this Saturday, for a very special livestream bringing you news and updates from the community archaeological digs in Newtown Linford. 📆 Sat 2 May, 3-4pm 🌐 More information and free booking: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/geopar...
⛏ Want to get involved in archaeology in the Geopark? 👉 We've got 3 community digs coming up this summer, and we're looking for volunteers to help uncover the buried past of our villages! 🌐 Find out more and get involved: charnwoodforest.org/get-involved...
