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For all local history enquiries contact:
Loughborough Library, Granby Street, Loughborough, Leics. LE11 3DZ
Tel: 01509 212985 and 01509 266436
24 hour renewal line: 0845 6022815
Fax: 01509 610594
Email: loughboroughlibrary@leics.gov.uk
Online Reference Library
Online Reference Library
Visit our Online Reference Library to access ebooks and online databases linked with family history and local studies.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography covers biographies of British people who have shaped our society. Search for education reformers or famous criminals in the county of Leicestershire.
Oxford Reference Online offers over 100 ebooks on most subjects including titles like Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History as well Dictionary of British Place-Names.
You can use these resource from home if you are a library member by using your library card number. For more information contact your local library or email: mukesh.nagar@leics.gov.uk
Ancestry Library Edition
Search the popular amateur genealogy website Ancestry Library Edition in any county library FREE of charge. Search online for UK census records, BMD records, UK directories and much more in the library FREE because we have paid the subscription so you don't have to! Call into your local library and ask library staff for details.
Charnwood History
These pages contain material about the history of Leicestershire, which can be found at Loughborough Library. They are maintained by Mukesh Nagar (mnagar@leics.gov.uk) from the Leicestershire Library Services.
The collection is divided into 2 – the Local History Room upstairs, which contains information about towns and villages, and the Family History area downstairs, which contains census and parish records, as well as local newspapers.
The initial focus is the history of the market town of Loughborough and its surrounding villages in Leicestershire. There is also some material of other counties in the East Midlands, in particular Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire as these are close to Loughborough.
Learning Topics
Other Local History Web Sites
- Loughborough John Taylor Bellfounders Gallery
The images on this gallery are kindly donated by John Taylor Bellfounders and Leicestershire County Council acknowledges with gratitude.
- Historical Directories
This Web site contains high quality reproductions of entire directories, which you can read on-line for free.
- Picture the Past
This is a joint project between Nottingham County and City and Derbyshire County and City to bring the local history images on-line.
- emsource
emsource aims to raise awareness of and promote the use of East Midlands local history archives for learning.