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Welcome to the latest edition of the British Association for Local History’s e-newsletter.
As summer has come to an end, there are still plenty of ways to enjoy local history, both virtually and in person. We are currently in the process of planning a number of online history events and projects, and we hope to share more details with you soon!
BALH encourages participation from all our members and we welcome all your ideas. If you have a local history story you would like to share – be it a blog post, talk, article or project – please do get in contact with us. For those wishing to become a BALH member, information about what BALH has to offer is available on our membership pages. Hope to hear from you soon!
Heritage Open Days
Over the month of September, we highlighted some of the places to visit across Great Britain and Northern Ireland as part of European Heritage Open Days. We loved seeing on social media your visits to some of the participating sites, and are looking forward to next year!
If you are planning on participating in Heritage Open Days next year and would like us to highlight your events, please let us know.
Teacher Fellowship Programme Residential
As part of an ongoing partnership with the Historical Association, on 23rd-25th September we welcomed participants in the Teacher Fellowship Programme to Lincoln, where we held the residential part of the programme. It was wonderful to meet so many enthusiastic educators and to discuss various ways to engage students with their local history.
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Teacher Fellowship programme
Could you be the inaugural BALH Local History Photographer of the Year?
From January 2022, we will be launching an initiative to find some great local history from around Britain. In addition to celebrating your local history photograph, we will be asking for a few words about why the subject means something to you. Over the coming months, the BALH team will be sharing some of our favourite images. The competition is open to all, with both adult and junior categories, and the winners will be part of Local History Day in June 2022.
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Discover more about the competition
New Digital Fellows
After interviewing candidates in August, we have appointed two new Fellows for 2021/22. Megan Kelleher, a PhD student at the University of Kent, took over from Dr Daniella Gonzalez as the Social Media Fellow. Catherine Warr, a Peace Studies graduate who runs the popular ‘Yorkshire’s Hidden History’ YouTube channel, has taken on a new Fellowship as our Engagement Fellow.
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Learn more about our new Fellows
From our blog
We’ve had some excellent blog posts submitted to us over the last couple of months on a range of topics. These include a fascinating discussion surrounding Welsh language epitaphs of the Great War by PhD student Jennifer Turner and an interesting illustration of how to research the local population prior to 1841 from local historian Sadie McMullon.
If you would like to write a piece for us:
Please check our guidelines. Once your piece is ready, you can submit it to socialmedia@balh.org.uk.
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Latest from our blog
Digital Webinars
We have lots of exciting digital webinars coming up over the next couple of months that are designed to support your own local history research. These include:
How to use Legal Records for Local History (3rd November at 6pm).
Oral History (24th November at 6pm).
The webinars last for approximately 90 minutes, with opportunities for questions and answers, and are free to BALH members. Non-members can join the sessions for £5.00 per session (with BALH Society members discounts available at £3.00 per session).
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See our forthcoming events
Family History Federation’s Really Useful Show
The third online Really Useful Show will be taking place on 12th and 13th November, and is an excellent opportunity to meet other family and local history researchers to discuss resources, ideas and networking options with other researchers. This major family history event has become an important date in the BALH outreach calendar, as we reinforce the importance of local history to those researching their family history. The BALH booth will be fully staffed with experts from our team, and a range of resources and materials will be made available to the attendees.
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Discover more about the show and book your place
Local History Hour
Our next virtual Local History Hour will be taking place on 25th November at 7pm, and we will be discussing Churchwarden’s accounts and their value to local historians, by using Wandsworth’s Churchwarden’s accounts from the sixteenth century. This event is free for BALH members, or £5 for non-members.
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Find out more, and book your place
10 Minute Talks
We continue to provide highly informative short talks under our ten-minute talks.
The Farmer’s Stocking Needle: How Vaccination Began with Patrick J Pead.
Kilpeck’s view of its Medieval World with John Chandler.
Migration from Swaledale during the Collapse of the 19th Century Lead Mines with Phil Batman.
The Story of Josiah Gilbert: Grocer Baker and War Victim of Loughborough, 1866-1916 with Lynne Dyer.
First World War Lives of the East Riding with Hannah Stamp.
Do you have a local history topic you could create a 10 Minute Talk for?
We’d love to hear from you! Details on how you can get involved can be found here.
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See a full listing of our 10 Minute Talks
Ask: Clock Towers
Author and PhD candidate Kevin Newman is currently researching clocktowers of the UK for his PhD and forthcoming book. He would be delighted to receive any information about your local clocktowers. These could be existing or lost, and any images that you are willing to let him use for the book will be greatly appreciated. Any help you can provide will be acknowledged in his book.
If you can help Kevin, please get in touch with him by emailing info@allinclusivehistory.org
Troubling Anniversaries Conference
In a partnership between the Centre for Public History and the Institute of Historical Research, this online conference on 21st October explores the uses of anniversaries in historical research and public interpretation.
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Further details and how to book
Communities of Dissent Conference
This conference on 30th October from the Chapels Society, in association with Harris Manchester College, Oxford, will be presenting the outcomes on the project work on nonconformism during the period 1850-1914 started by the Family and Community Historical Research Society. This includes an expert panel and Q and A where the ways in which we can record, save and conserve, repurpose and make better known chapels and their significance.
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Further details and how to book
More material is being added to our website all the time, so check back regularly!
The BALH Digital Team
digitalteam@balh.org.uk
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