HISTORY FAIR

Beaumanor Hall

Woodhouse LE12 8TX

Sunday 25 March 2012 10.00 am – 4.00 pm

Sponsored by the Archaeological & Historical Society

48 local history stalls; Archaeology Roadshow – bring your own coins, metalwork or pots; literature sales; History Mini-Talks throughout the day; History Tours of the Hall; children’s activities in the Cellars or Victorian Schoolroom; visits to Woodhouse church to view medieval stained glass. All Mini-Talks, Tours and Visits free of charge.

In partnership with the History Fair – a Woodhouse GCR Steam Railway event. Special GCR discounts all day and free admission to the Fair if you come by rail. Vintage buses between station and Beaumanor Hall. For times, see www.gcrailway.co.uk

History Fair entrance fee £3, children free of charge. Ample parking. Coffee shop open all day.

For further details see www.le.ac.uk/lahs or call in at your local library for a leaflet giving details & timings of the day’s programme

STALLHOLDERS AT BEAUMANOR LAHS HISTORY FAIR 2012 Ashby de la Zouch Museum Bottesford Community Heritage Project Bradgate Books Charley Heritage Group Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester Desford & District Local History Society East Leake & District Local History Society East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) Earl Shilton & District Local History Group Fleckney History Group Friends of Grace Dieu Priory Friends of Leicester & Leicestershire Museums Great Bowden Historical Society Great Central Railway Leicester Cathedral Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society Leicestershire County Council Historic & Natural Environment Team (Heritage Wardens) Leicestershire Fieldworkers, Young Archaeologists Club, Council for British Archaeology Leicestershire Footpath Association Leicestershire History Publications book stall Leicestershire Industrial History Society Leicestershire & Rutland Blue Badge Tourist Guides Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society Leicestershire & Rutland Gardens Trust Leicestershire & Rutland Heritage Forum Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust Loughborough Archaeological & Historical Society Loughborough Coin & Search Society Market Harborough Historical Society Melton & Belvoir Search Society Railway Restoration Project Parks Services Portable Antiquities Scheme Quorn Village Online Museum Ratby Local History Group Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester Shepshed History Society Thurcaston & Cropston Local History Society Thurmaston Heritage Group University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) Vaughan Archaeological & Historical Society Victorian Society, Leicester Group of the Whitwick Historical Group Wigston Framework Knitters Museum Wigston Historical Society Woodhouse and Woodhouse Eaves Local History Group Workers’ Educational Association (WEA)