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Find out what's going on at the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland.

As part of Local & Community History Month within Leicestershire County Council the Record Office has a Talk taking place  by Phil Leach from the Media Archive for Central England.  This will include a film show and talk about the  MACE Archive.  Pre-booking is advisable and there is a small charge of £2.  Please contact the Office if you wish to book.

Containing over 100,000 entries from 435 original registers held on deposit or on microfilm/microfiche

For indexes of the coverage of place names and dates, please click on the files below:

Baptism Index    Burial Index

Containing over 127,000 entries from original registers held in the Record Office for:

Leicester Workhouse 1875-1905
Receiving Home 1906-1921 (children born before 1911)
Countesthorpe Cottage Homes 1884-1911

Price: £15 each or by post (UK £17 for 1 CD, £33 for 2 CDs, international postage - please enquire) payable to "Leicestershire County Council".

A new publication entitled 'The Burning Question. The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in Leicestershire' by Jess Jenkins is now available at the Record Office.

Please see attached for further details : The Burning Question

To coincide with this year's sporting events and the Record Office's own sport exhiibition, the latest 'Searcher' looks at different aspects of sport in Leicestershire and its (sometimes ancient) roots in the past.  

Available for only £2.99.  Please contact the Record Office for further details.

The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland is currently working on the community project that involves history of the Polish people in Leicestershire. We are hoping to record oral histories from the people who came here after the Second World War and made this county their home. We would like to talk about their experiences of living in a foreign country, how they adapted to the British life and culture, did they manage to carry on with the Polish tradition, what was the reception from the natives etc. We would also like to enrich the project with the family photos and documents from the time.

The aim of this undertaking is to create a record of this vital community in Leicestershire’s history, so that it can be accessed by the wider public. With the gathered material, we are going to launch an exhibition and upload it onto the Record Office’s website.

If you would like to participate in the project, please get in touch with:

Kasia McCabe - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
Tel: 0116 2571080, or Email: Katarzyna.McCabe@leics.gov.uk

Record Office dla Leicestershire, Leicester i Rutland pracuje obecnie nad projektem poœwiêconym historii Polaków w Leicestershire. Mamy nadziejê nagraæ historie i opowieœci ludzi, którzy przybyli w te strony po Drugiej Wojnie Œwiatowej i uczynili Leicestershire swoim domem. Chcielibyœmy porozmawiaæ na temat ich doœwiadczeñ zwi¹zanych z ¿yciem w obcym kraju, adaptacji do brytyjskich tradycji i zwyczajów, podtrzymywania polskiej kultury, przyjêcia przez ludnoœæ lokaln¹ itp. Pragniemy równie¿ wzbogaciæ powy¿szy projekt zdjêciami i dokumentami z ówczesnego okresu.

Celem tego przedsiêwziêcia jest stworzenie zapisu tej jak¿e wa¿nej w historii Leicestershire spo³ecznoœci, ¿eby by³ dostêpny dla wiêkszej czêœci mieszkañców naszego hrabstwa. Planujemy równie¿ przygotowaæ wystawê oraz stronê internetow¹ na podstawie zgromadzonego materia³u.

Jeœli chcesz zaanga¿owaæ siê w ten projekt, skontaktuj siê z:
Kasi¹ McCabe - 01162571080, Katarzyna.McCabe@leics.gov.uk

This is a new publication giving news about the Record Office's Collections.  We value your views on this new publication. Let us know what you like or dislike and what you would wish to see covered in future issues.

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Please Note : from 1st January 2012 the Record Office will no longer be open on Friday.  All other opening times remain the same.

We have recently introduced a new photocopying policy here at the Record Office. In the past we have photocopied items because we had no other means of making a copy. All handling and copying causes some damage to records; however, some methods are worse than others. Photocopying is one of the most damaging ways to make copies: the physical handling of the item, the heat and strong light are all harmful.

We hope you will support our new policy and join us in preserving the historic records for future generations.

Please click on the links below for full details:

'The Dustsheet News' is a free newsletter produced by the Record Office. This newsletter aims to be a short, informative and fun publication to keep you informed about current events and news. Read 'The Dustsheet News' here.

This is the Record Office's hall of fame! Here you can see some of the hidden gems and forgotten treasures that Leicestershire Record Office has to offer - from the oldest surviving book dating back to the 12th century, to military memorabilia. See Raiders of the Lost Archive to find out more!

See Archived News & Press Releases to see what you might have missed at the Record Office!

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