The Record Office is CLOSED until further notice
Focusing on the health and wellbeing of our staff and customers is our top priority. In line with national guidance and government recommendations we have taken the decision to close the record office until further notice. We will not be able to undertake research or give collections advice at this time, but will endeavour to respond to any enquiries, if possible, but this service is dependent upon staff availability. We will put any further updates about the service on our website. We’re encouraging all our customers to stay safe in these unprecedented times by keeping up to date with the latest government guidance at www.gov.uk/coronavirus
Special Subject Talks by Record Office Staff
- The Work of the Record Office: an introduction to the office and its sources (held at the Record Office to show the range of resources, public search rooms and procedures and strongroom – time permitting).
- Church Monuments of Leicestershire and Rutland
- Sir Thomas Shirley and the great Shirley pedigree
- The Leicestershire Regiment and Ladysmith (Boer War)
- The Crimean War and Leicestershire
- Leicester’s Unemployed March to London, 1905
- Honest Men but Destitute – the plight of Leicestershire’s Framework Knitters
- Elizabeth Heyrick – An Uncompromising Friend of Liberty
- Burning Passions – The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in Leicestershire
- The Census – people count
- The Life and Times of Richard III
- Tales of the Titanic
- Data Protection for Community Groups
- The Base Hospital – The 5th Northern General Hospital, Leicester & its satellites, 1909-1918
- Passing Muster – The Leicestershire Militia, c. 950-1939
- Death, Disease & Data Protection – hospital and asylum archives in the Record Office
- Know Your Place – local maps in the Record Office
- Maps for Family History