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This Twitter/X page is now defunct. To keep up with the Society in future please follow @LeicsArchHisSoc
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🥳 We are delighted to announce that our new website has launched. This will give us scope to explain and promote what LAHS is all about and allow members to access our publications digitally. Check it out here lahs.org.uk #archaeology #history #Leicestershire
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Entries are now open for the 2024 Leics Archaeological and Historical Society annual dissertation prizes, for BA and MA, History, archaeology and related subjects on the Leics/Rutland past. @LAHSoc See website for more details: Dissertation Prizes 2024 - LAHS
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First viewing of the new 3D print of the amazing Hallaton helmet and the reconstruction project being previewed at @LAHSoc lecture tonight. @LeicsMuseums #TREASURE
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"Cheekpieces and Chasing Lions: Further Puzzles from the Hallaton Helmet Assemblage". Lecture discussing the #Roman finds and work done since first displayed 11 years ago. Also the chance to try on the helmet via 3D prints. 7.30pm Thurs 11 May, #Leicester Museum & Art Gallery.
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Have your written a dissertation or project on an aspect of the history/archaeology/heritage of Leics or Rutland in the last 2 years? Remember to get your entry in for the Leics Archaeological and Historical Society dissertation prizes @LAHSoc . BA/BSc and Master prizes ....
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Today's the day! Come and join us at the 2023 History fair at Beaumanor Hall, Woodhouse, LE12 8TX.
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💥LEICESTERSHIRE'S SECRET HISTORY BROUGHT TO LIFE 💥 Don’t miss @LAHSoc’s free History fair this Saturday at Beaumanor Hall, Leicestershire!
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The new issue of the ‘Last Post’ is now complete. The latest news and a fascinating article by Robin Jenkins on Leicester's temporary war memorial in the city from 1917 to 1954. To get your own free digital copy, contact [email protected] #LeicesterHistory #Leicester
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Unveiled on Victoria Park in Leicester on July the 4th 1925, it is aligned so the sun shines through the arches at sunrise on the 11th of November. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The arch stands as a permanent memorial to honour those from the Leicestershire regiment.
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The ARWMP is a war memorials project based in Leicester and Leicestershire. 46 memorials are in their safe care. One of those is this magnificent window. Rescued from the Aylestone working Men’s club. Others have been rescued from abandoned buildings , vandalism and theft.
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@LAHSoc event on Sunday postponed
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Details of the FREE @LAHSoc 2022 History Fair @BeaumanorHall on Sept 18th are now live. See below. Highlights include: @mungotalks @Mosaic_Jim @ULASarchaeology @RedfernNeil @UPANATEMHISTORY @HistoricEchoes @Uganda2Leic50 (and me!) to name but a few! Hope you can make it too! 🤞😃
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*Save the Date!* #FREE Family Fun Day @BeaumanorHall with @UPANATEMHISTORY #Reenactors, @ULASarchaeology, @archaeologyuk’s @RedfernNeil, @mungotalks, @Mosaic_Jim and much more to be announced soon. Spread the word! teapawt.net/HiddenHistorie3/status…
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Jim Butler@Jimb4225 Jun 2022
Today @LAHSoc is @LGS_Senior for the #LeicesterHistoryFestival Come along and discover what we do across the city, County and Rutland and find out how you can get involved too!
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On Sunday 19th June we're delighted to welcome back Leicester historian Philip French to #NewarkeHouses for a talk about '#Leicester and the 1920s' - find out how this period in our history shaped the century! leicestermuseums.org/event-d…
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"Colonel St George, in a bravery, came up to our Cannon, and was by it shotter'd into small parcels" Read about King Charles's attack on #Leicester in 1645, and the part played by Grey's Regiment in its defence: lordgreys.weebly.com/article… #History #TuesdayMotivaton
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🎬*Lecture now online*🎬 "Albion Archaeology in Leicestershire and Rutland" ▶️youtu.be/OJ6SiqEFZaA◀️ Mike Luke gives a summary of some of Albion Archaeology's recent investigations in #Leicestershire & #Rutland, concentrating on the #IronAge age and #Roman periods.
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🖥️ Leicestershire County Council Museum Collections have launched a new website. 🖥️ From prehistoric tools to fabulous fashion, tiny insects to aircraft, explore some of the museum collections and find out about the work they do. leicestershirecollections.or…
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