Information on visiting The Record Office from 19th July 2021
We are looking forward to welcoming more people back to the Record Office. However the health & wellbeing of visitors and staff remain our key priority. We are therefore taking a more gradual approach to lifting our Covid safety measures. We continue to encourage the use of face coverings for visitors and staff. Visits are still by pre-booking only although unlimited items can now be ordered on demand again. Please see 'Book Your Visit' on our home page for revised booking procedures. Thank you for your patience whilst we implement our gradual reopening plan. UPDATE: The Record Office will be open on SATURDAY mornings 21 August, 4 September and 18 September. We will be CLOSED FOR STOCKTAKING from 25 September to 9 October (inclusive).
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