TEMPORARY CHANGES TO OPENING HOURS FROM 26 FEBRUARY
The Record Office is currently closed on Mondays and last entry on Wednesdays is 5.00pm. We are also open on only two Saturdays per month. For more details, please see Latest News on our Home page. 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. We remain closed 12.30 - 13.30 for cleaning and ventilation.
If you would like to order any items below by post, please contact us
Publications & CDs for sale at the Record Office
There are a number of items that can be purchased from the Record Office:
Maps & Plans
Publications
Leaflets and Handlists
Postcards
Souvenirs
Friends of The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland publications and CD indexes
CD Indexes
All the information in the CDs has been taken from the records kept at the Record Office.
CD No.1: Nonconformist Baptisms 1706-c.1921 and Burials 1663-1978.
CD No.2: Leicester Poor Law Union Indexes to Admission and Discharge Records 1875-1921.
CD No.3: Leicestershire Workhouses Indexes to Admission & Discharge Records 1836-1912.
CD No.4: Leicestershire Criminal, Prison and Bastardy Records.
CD No. 5: Leicester and Leicestershire Licensing Records 1753-1936.
All the above CDs are available to purchase at £15 each. Further details are available
Occasional Papers
Occasional Papers No 1
Honest people but Destitute – the plight of Leicestershire’s Framework Knitters in the 1840’s by Jess Jenkins. 2005. £4.50
Occasional Papers No 2
Leicester’s Unemployed March to London 1905 by Jess Jenkins. 2005. £4.90
Occasional Papers No 3
The Russian War (Leicestershire and the Crimean War) by Robin Jenkins. £6
Occasional Papers No 4
Know Your Place (Maps at the Record Office) by Hilda Stoddart. £8
Occasional Papers No 5
The Burning Question. The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in Leicestershire by Jess Jenkins £8
Occasional Paper No 6:
Buck’s South Prospect of Leicester – Print (size 71cm x 50cm/28″ x 20″) approx. £2.50
Record Office Publications
The Searcher No 1: Leicestershire at War 1938-1945 – £4.00
The Searcher No 2: Art & Architecture – £2.99
The Searcher No 3: History of Sport – £2.99
Family History Helpful Hints – £0.40 per set
Family Tree Charts- £1.50 each
Handlist of Parish Registers – £3.00 each
Leicestershire Admin Districts (1970’s plan) – £0.55p each
Plan of Welford Road Cemetery – £0.45p each
Sources for Family Historians – £0.35p per set