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Welcome to the 11th edition of the British Association for Local History’s e-newsletter.
We hope you are keeping safe and well during these increasingly difficult times, and are enjoying the signs of spring that may be happening near you. We’ve had a busy start to the year, and we cannot wait to see some of you at our events throughout the remainder of 2022!
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. We hope to hear from you soon!
Local History Day
Local History Day returns this year for a blended in-person and virtual event, taking the best of our ever-popular event and adding what we have learned digitally over the last two years. Visitors, physical or virtual, will be enjoy a packed day of local history for all.
Highlights include a keynote from Dr Janina Ramirez, a fascinating presentation on post-medieval manorial records from Mark Forrest and the highly-anticipated announcement of the winners of our inaugural Local History Photographer of the Year competition and the BALH Awards for Local Historians.
Bookings for Local History Day are open! Join us online or in person, on Saturday 11th June 2022 for a day packed full of local history.
Last Chance To Enter Our Photography Competition
The closing date for our inaugural Local History Photographer of the Year competition is fast approaching.
To help you benefit from the spring weather, we've extended closing date to midnight BST on 30th April.
While we are keen to see your images, we're equally looking for how you view local history in your surroundings, and what local history means to you. You don't need an amazing camera, a phone will do just fine. Don't miss out on this opportunity to be part of our visual census of British local history in 2022.
The competition is open to all ages, with a special category for the under 18s, so please encourage our younger photographers to get involved.
Read more:
Competiton details
#PhotographyFriday
Are you interested in the BALH’s Local History Photographer of the Year competition, but want to practise with some photographs first? Why not join our new initiative, #PhotographyFriday. Each Friday, we will be sharing some of our favourite photographs of sites of local historical importance that we have visited. Tag us in your posts and use the hashtag #PhotographyFriday so we can share your posts.
Local History Hour
We have lots of exciting Local History Hours lined up for this year! After the success of our last Local History Hour on Thursday 24th Feburary, we have two fascinating talks from experts in their fields. These include:
Expectation versus Reality in Medieval Legal Records (Thursday 28th April 2022,7pm).
Women Hiding in Documents: Women’s Lives in 16th Century Patriarchal Society (Thursday 26th May 2022, 7pm).
These events are free for BALH members, or £5 for non-members.
Would you like to be part of a Local History Hour and share your research?
We’d love to hear from you! Email socialmedia@balh.org.uk to find out more about how you can get involved.
Local History Matters - The BALH Podcast
The popular BALH podcast is back for a new series. The team are busy recording episodes with an fascinating line-up of interviewees, which will be released over the coming months.
A taster is available, where Catherine and Megan, from the BALH Digital Team, discuss the Local History Photographer of the Year competition.
Read more:
Listen or subscribe to our podcast
Historic Towns Trust
Throughout March, we hosted four fascinating webinarsm in partnerhship with the Historic Towns Trust. If you missed any of the talks, or would like a recap, then you will enjoy our dedicated blog articles.
Read more:
Historic Towns Trust series blogs
Manorial Records Book now Published!
Our latest book publication, Manors and Manorial Documents after 1500, has now been published.
In the book, authors Mark Forrest and Helen Watt take us through manorial documents and highlight their use as a source for local history. From farming practices to crime and local government, manorial documents are essential to understanding past communities. This comprehensive 95-page guide to post-medieval manors details how they were managed, and presents illustrated examples of administrative documents as well as court rolls. It also includes case studies of how they can be used.
The book can be purchased from our bookshop, and is £8 for BALH members or £10 for non-members.
Don't miss Mark Forrest's talk at Local History Day on June 11th.
Publications
The latest issues of Local History News and The Local Historian will be out soon! In The Local Historian we have some fascinating articles covering the length and breadth of the British Isles across different historic time periods. These include anti-social behaviour in late medieval Tamworth and a history of East Suffolk Schools between 1920 and 1939.
Members will receive their copies in the post but much of our publication content is available online.
Read more:
The BALH publications
Our Local History Blog
We’ve got lots of fascinating blogs on our website covering a range of topics and periods in history.
Recently, we’ve had a piece from PhD Researcher Linda Hutton about the omission of names on First World War memorials, and as part of Women’s History Month Engagement Fellow Catherine Warr told us about three important Yorkshire women who aren’t the Brontës. We also celebrated LGBTQ+ History Month by highlighting a few of the places that Historic England have researched in their fantastic “Pride of Place” resource.
In our Women’s History Month Special, Sarah Nathaniel told the fascinating story of Doctor Frances Ivens (pictured above).
We also shared some of the highlights from our latest webinar, including a “how to” guide from our Social Media Fellow in order to help you begin using social media to share your research.
Read more:
The BALH blog
We are always looking for new contributors to our blog, and welcome submissions particularly from different geographical regions, communities and backgrounds. If you would like to write a piece for us, please click here to check our guidelines. Once your piece is ready, you can submit it to socialmedia@balh.org.uk.
10 Minute Talks
Our latest 10 Minute Talks are available to access on the BALH website, and they cover a range of topics. These include:
Irish Language in the Black Country with Simon Briercliffe.
Indexing Local History with Dr Francis Young.
The Farmer’s Stocking Needle: How Vaccination Began with Patrick J Pead.
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.
Read more:
See a full listing of our 10 Minute Talks
Do you have a local history topic you could create a 10 Minute Talk for? We’d love to hear from you!
Read more:
Get involved with a 10 Minute talk
Social Media
Are you or your organisation on social media? We’d love to hear from you! We would love to interact with more of our members through our social media channels, and help you to share upcoming events that you are hosting. Furthermore, if there are groups or individuals you think we should be following, please tell us.
Our social media is as follows:
Facebook
Instagram
LinkedIn
Twitter
YouTube
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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