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
William Paget died in 1865. He founded a large hosiery business in Loughborough, was part owner of a coal mine & a corn milling business & farmed c.700 a. land in S. Notts. How long did it take to get probate? 3 weeks! 22 days to be precise, but one of those days was Christmas Day. How times change
January 23, 2026 at 2:51 PM
William Paget died in 1865. He founded a large hosiery business in Loughborough, was part owner of a coal mine & a corn milling business & farmed c.700 a. land in S. Notts. How long did it take to get probate? 3 weeks! 22 days to be precise, but one of those days was Christmas Day. How times change
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The Generator: Stories and Memories - an oral history project supported by @heritagefunduk
We’ve captured the voices, recollections and experiences of those who studied, worked and created in the historic Packe Street building over the decades.
We’ve captured the voices, recollections and experiences of those who studied, worked and created in the historic Packe Street building over the decades.
January 23, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The Generator: Stories and Memories - an oral history project supported by @heritagefunduk
We’ve captured the voices, recollections and experiences of those who studied, worked and created in the historic Packe Street building over the decades.
We’ve captured the voices, recollections and experiences of those who studied, worked and created in the historic Packe Street building over the decades.
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Layers of history revealed in the walls, floors + surfaces of our Art Deco building. each texture is a chapter in The Generator’s journey from power station> art college> community arts venue.
January 23, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Layers of history revealed in the walls, floors + surfaces of our Art Deco building. each texture is a chapter in The Generator’s journey from power station> art college> community arts venue.
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Our February Forum will be online, 15 Feb at 6.15pm. Dr Miriam Gill will be talking on ‘Tantalizing Fragments: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play’
To find out more👇
vaughan.coop/course/febru...
To find out more👇
vaughan.coop/course/febru...
February Forum: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play - Leicester Vaughan College
Miriam Gill shares how fragmentary stained glass may develop our understanding of the spectacular finale of Coventry's missing Mystery Plays, the Drapers' play of the Last Judgement.
vaughan.coop
January 19, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Our February Forum will be online, 15 Feb at 6.15pm. Dr Miriam Gill will be talking on ‘Tantalizing Fragments: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play’
To find out more👇
vaughan.coop/course/febru...
To find out more👇
vaughan.coop/course/febru...
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👍 Thank you to our fabulous volunteers who helped install a Geopark Information Hub in Woodhouse Eaves yesterday.
👉 The Hub also hosts the Woodhouse Eaves Earthquake Geosite, with interpretation on the tremor of 1893. Plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/woo...
👉 The Hub also hosts the Woodhouse Eaves Earthquake Geosite, with interpretation on the tremor of 1893. Plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/woo...
January 9, 2026 at 9:14 AM
👍 Thank you to our fabulous volunteers who helped install a Geopark Information Hub in Woodhouse Eaves yesterday.
👉 The Hub also hosts the Woodhouse Eaves Earthquake Geosite, with interpretation on the tremor of 1893. Plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/woo...
👉 The Hub also hosts the Woodhouse Eaves Earthquake Geosite, with interpretation on the tremor of 1893. Plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/woo...
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Save the date and cfp.
A grand day out at the beautiful, grade 1 listed Wymeswold
Church, Leics (UK).
@eccleshistsoc.bsky.social
@leicsvcht.bsky.social
@leicsarchhissoc.bsky.social
@churchmonuments.bsky.social
A grand day out at the beautiful, grade 1 listed Wymeswold
Church, Leics (UK).
@eccleshistsoc.bsky.social
@leicsvcht.bsky.social
@leicsarchhissoc.bsky.social
@churchmonuments.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Save the date and cfp.
A grand day out at the beautiful, grade 1 listed Wymeswold
Church, Leics (UK).
@eccleshistsoc.bsky.social
@leicsvcht.bsky.social
@leicsarchhissoc.bsky.social
@churchmonuments.bsky.social
A grand day out at the beautiful, grade 1 listed Wymeswold
Church, Leics (UK).
@eccleshistsoc.bsky.social
@leicsvcht.bsky.social
@leicsarchhissoc.bsky.social
@churchmonuments.bsky.social
Not gone back to work yet? Looking for a new history walk in Leicestershire? Look no further, we have prepared two in Nanpantan nwrg2.uk/heritage/
December 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Not gone back to work yet? Looking for a new history walk in Leicestershire? Look no further, we have prepared two in Nanpantan nwrg2.uk/heritage/
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⭐️ Recap of 2025 - Our Biggest Stories of the Year ⭐️
👉 In September Melinda Bell discovered the Candelabra Coral Fungus at Copt Oak, Charnwood Forest - this first time this species has been recorded in Leicestershire.
🌐 Read more on the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
👉 In September Melinda Bell discovered the Candelabra Coral Fungus at Copt Oak, Charnwood Forest - this first time this species has been recorded in Leicestershire.
🌐 Read more on the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
⭐️ Recap of 2025 - Our Biggest Stories of the Year ⭐️
👉 In September Melinda Bell discovered the Candelabra Coral Fungus at Copt Oak, Charnwood Forest - this first time this species has been recorded in Leicestershire.
🌐 Read more on the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
👉 In September Melinda Bell discovered the Candelabra Coral Fungus at Copt Oak, Charnwood Forest - this first time this species has been recorded in Leicestershire.
🌐 Read more on the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A fantastic little book this - Jane's letters, with observations on social life, the state of the roads, the practices of the parish church and much else - add insights into a village now completely different to the one she knew.
Pretty much the only building left from her time is the church. 🗃️
Pretty much the only building left from her time is the church. 🗃️
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A fantastic little book this - Jane's letters, with observations on social life, the state of the roads, the practices of the parish church and much else - add insights into a village now completely different to the one she knew.
Pretty much the only building left from her time is the church. 🗃️
Pretty much the only building left from her time is the church. 🗃️
Thornton is also one of the Leicestershire places our first group of volunteer history researchers will be investigating as part of a project funded by Charnwood Forest Geopark and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. More at www.charnwoodforest.org/new-local-hi... @vch-home.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Thornton is also one of the Leicestershire places our first group of volunteer history researchers will be investigating as part of a project funded by Charnwood Forest Geopark and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. More at www.charnwoodforest.org/new-local-hi... @vch-home.bsky.social
Victorian Entertainment. On this day in 1865, in this Sunday school room in #Loughborough, the Revd C.C. Coe read Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol 'without intermission for two hours'. (British Newspaper Archive) #localhistory @vch-home.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Victorian Entertainment. On this day in 1865, in this Sunday school room in #Loughborough, the Revd C.C. Coe read Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol 'without intermission for two hours'. (British Newspaper Archive) #localhistory @vch-home.bsky.social
Our latest Newsletter is now available to download. See leicestershirehistory.co.uk?page_id=3681 Find out more about our new project in the Charnwood Forest Geopark area (and thanks to them and to National Lottery for funding this).
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Our latest Newsletter is now available to download. See leicestershirehistory.co.uk?page_id=3681 Find out more about our new project in the Charnwood Forest Geopark area (and thanks to them and to National Lottery for funding this).
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A great blog from @ihr.bsky.social director, @clairelanghamer.bsky.social advocating 'History by Doing', bridging the gaps between the histories of people and places where we live, and work and those universities teach/research and delve into: they're all one. 🗃️
You want examples? A short 🧵
You want examples? A short 🧵
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...
blog.history.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A great blog from @ihr.bsky.social director, @clairelanghamer.bsky.social advocating 'History by Doing', bridging the gaps between the histories of people and places where we live, and work and those universities teach/research and delve into: they're all one. 🗃️
You want examples? A short 🧵
You want examples? A short 🧵
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#Talk: 'From Nation to Local: Re-Discovering England’s Places through #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems'. What happens to our understanding of the nation when we start at the very smallest scale? Friday 28 November, 3pm, University of Leicester - all welcome! www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2025/09/2...
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
#Talk: 'From Nation to Local: Re-Discovering England’s Places through #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems'. What happens to our understanding of the nation when we start at the very smallest scale? Friday 28 November, 3pm, University of Leicester - all welcome! www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2025/09/2...
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We had a great pilot session for our new school workshops! If your KS3-5 students would enjoy a free workshop exploring Magna Carta & the Making of History (&featuring fab primary sources) contact [email protected]. Scheme kindly supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Farrer & Co.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We had a great pilot session for our new school workshops! If your KS3-5 students would enjoy a free workshop exploring Magna Carta & the Making of History (&featuring fab primary sources) contact [email protected]. Scheme kindly supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Farrer & Co.
Bit of a competition going on yesterday among the fallen oak leaves in Victoria Park - who will collect the most acorns?
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Bit of a competition going on yesterday among the fallen oak leaves in Victoria Park - who will collect the most acorns?
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We have amazing minerals in Charnwood Forest!
🔷 Azurite
🟩 Malachite
They both contain copper, but with vividly different colours!
📍 New Cliffe Hill Quarry
🏛 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
🔷 Azurite
🟩 Malachite
They both contain copper, but with vividly different colours!
📍 New Cliffe Hill Quarry
🏛 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We have amazing minerals in Charnwood Forest!
🔷 Azurite
🟩 Malachite
They both contain copper, but with vividly different colours!
📍 New Cliffe Hill Quarry
🏛 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
🔷 Azurite
🟩 Malachite
They both contain copper, but with vividly different colours!
📍 New Cliffe Hill Quarry
🏛 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Can be those more than a century old too - e.g. school log book started in the 1890s that continues until the book runs out of pages in the 1930s.
Pretty much all school records held in local record offices less than a century old, these days, too.
October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Can be those more than a century old too - e.g. school log book started in the 1890s that continues until the book runs out of pages in the 1930s.
Was just wondering when #Sainsbury's opened in Loughborough, and found the wonderful Sainsbury archive online, with press release from Jan 1985, brochure and lots of photos www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/se...
Search | Catalogue | Sainsbury Archive
Search Sainsbury Archive catalogue
www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Was just wondering when #Sainsbury's opened in Loughborough, and found the wonderful Sainsbury archive online, with press release from Jan 1985, brochure and lots of photos www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/se...
I love the feeling of stillness in the Outwoods, and the birdsong (but perhaps not so much birdsong in the rain).
So lucky to have exciting woods to walk through so close to Loughborough, my #OnePlaceStudy My latest trip was to The Outwoods with Ranger Sam from IDVerdi @charnwoodbc.bsky.social lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2025/10/an-a...
An Autumn Walk in The Outwoods
An exciting guided walk around The Outwoods with one of the rangers. A wet start that turned out nice in the end!!
lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I love the feeling of stillness in the Outwoods, and the birdsong (but perhaps not so much birdsong in the rain).
Manorial rolls are vital sources for medieval settlement history, and many survive, but unfortunately many are now in the USA. Documents recording the medieval history of several Leicestershire settlements are in the Huntington library, California.
These are great - but we love manorial documents more than most!
Many of this collection in Chicago are digitised (and should anyone be interested in supporting a history of any of these Norfolk or Suffolk parishes, please get in touch...):
Many of this collection in Chicago are digitised (and should anyone be interested in supporting a history of any of these Norfolk or Suffolk parishes, please get in touch...):
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Manorial rolls are vital sources for medieval settlement history, and many survive, but unfortunately many are now in the USA. Documents recording the medieval history of several Leicestershire settlements are in the Huntington library, California.
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This is really interesting - taking the sort of work we do (analysing historic documents and landscape elements, buildings, and place names), and using that to attempt to reconstruct a village, a place, as it was 700 years ago. #Skystorians
Had the pleasure of seeing this incredible digital reconstruction of medieval Barrow-upon-Trent at a heritage event this weekend. It's kinda mesmerising. Love this level of detail. Grab a cuppa and give it a watch!
#derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺
Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.
#derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺
Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.
Medieval Barrow upon Trent c1300 CE
YouTube video by albino igil
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October 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This is really interesting - taking the sort of work we do (analysing historic documents and landscape elements, buildings, and place names), and using that to attempt to reconstruct a village, a place, as it was 700 years ago. #Skystorians
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👩🏫 Are you involved in a school or educational group in and around Charnwood Forest?
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
October 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
👩🏫 Are you involved in a school or educational group in and around Charnwood Forest?
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
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