@leicsarchhissoc.bsky.social tries to save to the locals the Leicestershire Bronze Age torc. The have started a crowdfunder with the target of £10,000. #Archaeology
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...
This is an important find. Please help if you can.
#Archaeology 🏺
Please donate if you can. Lest keep these objects in museums where everyone can enjoy them and learn from them
Please repost @royalarchinst.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social
Help save Leicestershire’s Bronze Age Torc❗️
We've started a crowdfunding campaign to ensure that a 3,000-year-old golden torc discovered last year near Harborough can be saved and brought back to the county - but we only have until mid-March to do it!
Visit
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...
Tonight!!! Hope to see you there.
LAHS is delighted to welcome Ulla to the Transactions!
Thursday 12 February, 7.30pm-9pm - Members' Evening
Members of LAHS present on their own research. Come along & hear about a range of current projects on the history and archaeology of Leicestershire
Venue: Clephan Building 0.01, De Montfort University, Leicester
lahs.org.uk/events/2026-...
Thursday 12 February, 7.30pm-9pm - Members' Evening
Members of LAHS present on their own research. Come along & hear about a range of current projects on the history and archaeology of Leicestershire
Venue: Clephan Building 0.01, De Montfort University, Leicester
lahs.org.uk/events/2026-...
TONIGHT!!!
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
💙 Escape the January blues with our next free lecture! 7.30pm Thursday 22 January 💙
30 Years of British Comedy
Geoff Rowe, Founder of the Leicester Comedy Festival.
Visit lahs.org.uk/events/30-ye...
Image: Jo Brand. @Leicester Comedy Festival Archive
💙 Escape the January blues with our next free lecture! 7.30pm Thursday 22 January 💙
30 Years of British Comedy
Geoff Rowe, Founder of the Leicester Comedy Festival.
Visit lahs.org.uk/events/30-ye...
Image: Jo Brand. @Leicester Comedy Festival Archive
⭐️ Day 23 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ Snakes with glass eyes & other distractions…
LAHS Newsletter Editor, Cynthia Brown illustrates the power of allowing yourself to be driven by curiosity when considering local history research.
Visit lahs.org.uk/blog/snakes-...
Image: Wombwell's Royal Menagerie
⭐️ Day 22 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ A house at 93 Main Street, Lyddington, Rutland - A history of ownership and occupation over 400 years
LAHS Member Trevor Harrington shares a portion of his house history
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Image: Trevor Harrington 2020
⭐️ Day 21 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ Two Incursions a Millennium Apart into Leicester by the Marquis Family
LAHS Member Steve Marquis explores his own connection to the 10th C Viking occupation of Leicester
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Image: BL Harley MS. 15 C. Ívarr and Ubba ravaging the countryside
⭐️ Day 19 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ The Mysterious Archaeology of Saltby Heath: Part 1 The Heath
LAHS VP Robert Hartley considers the long history of human activity in this distinctive landscape.
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Image: The excavated Saltby Heath barrow Nov 1978. R.F. Hartley
⭐️ Day 17 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ Luddism and Chartism and the part played by Leicestershire Women
LAHS member Steve Marquis looks at the role played by Leics women in these 19th Century political working class movements
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Image: Chartist rally at Kennington Common, 1848
⭐️ Day 15 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ New Angles on Saxon Leicestershire
LAHS member (archaeologist at ULAS) Dr Gavin Speed looks at the growing archaeological evidence for the Anglo-Saxon people & their places in early Anglo-Saxon Leics & Rutland
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Image: ULAS, Eye Kettleby
⭐️ Day 14 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ Ancient Trails & Salt Ways in South Leicestershire
LAHS Member, John Lacey, investigates a lesser known pre-historic trading route from north to south.
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Image: Crossing Clawson Lane at the Top of Brock Hill. © Tim Heaton (2023)
⭐️ Day 13 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ Salt Ways In Leics
LAHS Member Bob Trubshaw explores the history of these ancient trackways
Numerous E-W routes in NE Leics continue into Lincs and to the Norfolk coast. Once thought of as salt ways, . They transported wool & pilgrims
lahs.org.uk/blog/salt-wa...
⭐️ Day 12 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ Polish Resettlement Camps in Leicestershire
LAHS Member Jakub Milcarz considers life in the Polish Resettlement Camps of post-war Leics
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Image: Polish Wedding, Melton Mowbray, 1954. Photo: Polish Resettlement Camps in UK 1946-69 Website
⭐️ Day 11 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ A Polish homeopath in Leicester
LAHS Newsletter & Reviews Editor, Cynthia Brown tells the story of Severin Wielobycki, a 19th century Polish homeopath who lived & worked in Leicester during the 1860s
Visit lahs.org.uk/blog/a-polis...
Image: Dr Severin Wielobycki (1893)
⭐️ Day 10 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ Why do three adjacent villages have rare C17th fonts?
LAHS Member Bob Trubshaw examines 4 examples of baptismal fonts (Bottesford, Orston & Muston) exploring their links to Archbishop Laud's in 17th C
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Image: Orston font by Bob Trubshaw
TONIGHT!
⭐️ Day 4 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ The 1645 Siege of Leicester
LAHS member Steve Marquis, recounts the infamous siege of Leicester in 1645 during the height of the English Civil War
Visit lahs.org.uk/blog/the-164...
Image: Royalist Army on the Raw Dykes, University of Leicester Special Collections
⭐️ Day 3 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ Leicestershire & Rutland’s Holy Wells
LAHS Member Bob Trubshaw takes a fresh look at some of the area's Holy Wells, exploring both their roots & the folklore surrounding them.
Visit lahs.org.uk/blog/leicest...
Image: Ashwell's eponymous well (Photo by Bob Trubshaw)
⭐️ Day 2 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ Iron Age Landscape of the Salt Way
LAHS member Stuart Evans considers the Salt Way, an ancient route from Donington, Lincs to Barrow on Soar, Leics & its possible Iron Age origins
See lahs.org.uk/blog/the-iro...
Image: the Salt Way. Reproduced under Open Govt Licence 3.0
⭐️ Day 1 of LAHS Advent ⭐️ Smeeton Westerby Beaker burial revisited
50 years ago, an ancient Beaker burial was found on Smeeton Hill in south Leics. LAHS VP Dr Patrick Clay takes a fresh look at how our understanding of Neolithic/Bronze Age Leics has come since then
See lahs.org.uk/blog/the-sme...
As we head towards Christmas, look out for the LAHS Advent Calendar on social media from 1 Dec
We'll be sharing a selection of past blog posts daily
Here's how to submit your own blog to us. We're looking for new posts for 2026
Visit lahs.org.uk/blog/contrib...
Image: Anstey packhorse bridge
