2025 Meetings

Society meetings usually take place on the first Friday of each month when members and guests enjoy a varied programme of lectures and social activities. Meetings enable members to learn more about the past while meeting friends in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

Meetings Title Speaker
3rd January

John Glover’s Sketchbook
The life and work of this Leicestershire born artist

Stephen Flinders
7th February

You rang M’Lud? The architecture of household staff in late medieval castles

James Wright
7th March

Annual General Meeting followed by

The Bob Hammond Memorial Talk
Picturing the Local Landscape: New ways of seeing our surroundings

Stephan Green
4th April

Isaac Newton: angry young man of Lincolnshire & father of physics

David Charles
2nd May

Historical Graffiti

James Wright
6th June

Remembering the 1950s
(including sharing your memories)

John Whitfield
4th July

Richard I in the East Midlands
He came with the conqueror William Peverel the elder

David Speed
August

No meeting

5th September

What does Robin Hood show us about ‘life’ in his times?
Medieval Costume Event with prizes

David Speed
3rd October

The Back Route: Great Northern Railway between Nottingham and Derby

David Clarke
7th November

The answer lies in the soil (beyond our ken)

David Charles
5th December

Christmas Social – ticket only – A history of Local Carols

Stephan Green