A Victorian Christmas – 9th December 2025
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Melton Mowbray Visit – 20th June 2025
Melton Mowbray is a charming town famous for its pork pies and stilton cheese. It has a rich history of royal connections, hunting traditions, and rural heritage and the town’s medieval church, historic market, and the fascinating museum are all worthy of a visit. Twenty LHG members headed to Melton Mowbray on 20th June on a very sunny day to learn about the history of this interesting Leicestershire town. Thanks to Esther Hancock for organising this visit led by Brian
The History and Work of the British Red Cross – 11th November 2025 – Jayne Owens
The British Red Cross was formed in 1870 as the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded and was inspired by the Swiss businessman Henry Dunant. He showed compassion for people fighting on both sides of a war. The British Red Cross is a humanitarian organisation that provides support to people in crisis, both in the U.K. and internationally. It’s part of the larger Red Cross and Red Crescent movement, a global network with thousands of volunteers
Bringing a Secret History up to date – 8th July 2025 – Mark Temple
We are not very far from two important centres of research, information, code breaking and listening, which played a very important role in helping the Allies defeat the Axis powers during World War 2, namely: In 1941 MI8 set up a project, under the direction of Churchill’s war office, to establish wireless intelligence (W.I or Y) stations in over 30 locations all over the country. Their job was to intercept communications being sent between enemy forces across Europe. Beaumanor was
Lubenham All Saints Church Graveyard Survey
It all began in 2015 when, following an approach from All Saints Parochial Church Council (PCC) to LHG, it was decided to update the survey carried out by the Women’s Institute in 1981. A small but dedicated group of volunteers began recording all the graves and their hard work has finally come to fruition with the publication of the Survey. The survey contains 740 references to people commemorated in the five sections of the graveyard. Of these memorials, there are