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  • Thomas Cook

    Market Harborough Market Harborough Methodist Church, Northampton Road, Market Harborough, Leicestershire

    Speaker - Susan Barton. Thomas Cook was well-known for their travel business, and Susan will be telling the story of their founder and how the business came to be so […]

  • Problems for immigrants 1600s to 1700s

    Hinckley Green Towers, Hinckley Club 4 Young People, Richmond Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire

    Speaker - Nigel Mann. Nigel will be exploring the problems and challenges faced by immigrants in Britain through the 17th and 18th centuries. He will follow a family of refugees […]

  • Leicester’s infidels

    Leicester Friends’ Meeting House Friends' Meeting House, 16 Queen’s Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

    Speaker - Ned Newitt. Ned is a well-known historian and speaker, and this talk will look at the 'infidels' of Leicester. These freethinkers risked imprisonment, lost jobs and were ostracised […]

  • Life in Oakham in 1300

    Oakham The Methodist Centre, Northgate, Oakham, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

    Speaker - Gareth King. An opportunity to visit medieval Oakham and discover not only what the town was like so long ago, but also to learn about the lives that […]

  • Challenges and Solutions

    Market Harborough Market Harborough Methodist Church, Northampton Road, Market Harborough, Leicestershire

    An evening of opportunity to bring along and share challenges and barriers that you have encountered in your family history research. There will be open and friendly discussion and debate, […]

  • The history of the census

    Oakham The Methodist Centre, Northgate, Oakham, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

    Speaker - Simon Pawley. Simon will cover census history from Domesday Book, through subsequent collections of data and on to the Napoleonic wars and the need to establish potential soldier […]

  • The life and times of Mary Attenborough

    Leicester Oadby Tennis Club Oadby Granville Tennis Club, Leicester Road, Oadby, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

    Speaker - Richard Graves. Mary Attenborough, the mother of the naturalist David Attenborough, was a Leicester philanthropist, working for child refugees and child welfare in general. Richard will be telling […]

  • The country railway station

    Market Harborough Market Harborough Methodist Church, Northampton Road, Market Harborough, Leicestershire

    Speaker - Brian Johnson. Brian is well-known for his comprehensive knowledge of historical businesses and locations across Leicester. In this talk he will focus his attention on the country railway […]

  • Leicester’s boot and shoe trade

    Hinckley Green Towers, Hinckley Club 4 Young People, Richmond Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire

    Speaker - Brian Johnson. Leicester was once world-famous for the size and quality of its boot and shoe manufacturing trade. Brian will be describing the origins and growth of the […]

  • Richard III in the East Midlands

    Oakham The Methodist Centre, Northgate, Oakham, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

    Speaker - Mike Burton. Mike will be speaking on the effects that Richard III had on the East Midlands, beyond his famous involvement at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

  • Plum puddings and barbed wire

    Market Harborough Market Harborough Methodist Church, Northampton Road, Market Harborough, Leicestershire

    Speaker - Robin Jenkins. Robin is an acknowledged expert on military matters, and this talk will cover experiences in the trenches of World War 1. An opportunity to learn not […]

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