What has Leicester done for Nature? Celebrating Leicestershire Natural History and Historians Past and Present.

When
13 Oct 2025
19:30 - 21:00
Location
Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
Spaces left
100

Registration

Guest tickets – £7.00
Guest tickets allow you to attend in person or by Zoom. For this event, it is also possible to pay at the door without purchasing a ticket in advance.
Student Ticket – £3.00
Student tickets allow you to attend in person or by Zoom. For this event, it is also possible to pay at the door without purchasing a ticket in advance.

Images courtesy of the speaker

The President's Address

Hazel Graves

Retired Medical Research Technician, Retired Special Needs Education Technician,

Currently Amateur Naturalist.

Lecture outline

Conservation of our natural environment is now widely recognised as essential for the welfare of future generations. We cannot conserve what we don’t know about. This lecture will give a flavour of the endeavours of Leicestershire naturalists past and present to identify and understand the wealth of wildlife in Leicestershire and beyond.

Biographical note

After a career in medical research followed by a short spell as a stay-at-home parent, I re-entered the workforce specialising in Education for Children with Visual Impairment and Braille production. Following retirement I initially immersed myself in Botany, volunteering for Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust, undertaking grassland, woodland and hedge surveys, and for the BSBI, spending many hours square-bashing for the 2020 Atlas. I then branched out into other areas of natural history such as regular moth recording at home and on Wildlife Trust reserves, butterfly and bird transects on farmland being managed for nature, plus a keen interest in recording hoverflies, leaf mines and plant galls and anything else that I find. I have been Chairman of both Leicester Lit & Phil Natural History Section and Loughborough Naturalists’ Club for approximately 7 years until recently and often lead Field Meetings to places of natural history interest for these organisations.

Attending the lecture

The lecture is open both to members of the Society and to guests.

The lecture will take place in Hansom Hall - how to find Hansom Hall.

Please note that tea and coffee drinks will be available between 7.00pm and 7.15pm before the formal start of the event at 7.30pm.

The lecture will also be streamed on Zoom. A recording of the lecture may be available to members only.