Information on visiting The Record Office from 11th October 2021
Our opening hours have returned to normal, except we are closed 12.30 - 13.30 for cleaning and ventilation. Searchroom capacity has been increased and there is now no need to book. The health and wellbeing of visitors and staff remain our key priority and we continue to encourage social distancing and the wearing of face coverings. Please see 'Visit Us' for more details, including opening hours. We look forward to welcoming back more visitors.
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