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Welcome to the 12th edition of the British Association for Local History’s e-newsletter.
We hope you are keeping well after the heatwave, and are enjoying the summer. We are continuing to coordinate lots of exciting things, including our programme of webinars and talks starting in the Autumn.
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!
Digital Webinars
Join us on Tuesday for The 1921 Census: opportunities for local history
After a break over the summer, we will be returning for our hugely popular webinars with the first covering the 1921 Census. Join us on Tuesday 6th September at 6pm, where, back by popular demand, we hear from Jessamy Carlson from the National Archives about how you can use the 1921 Census for local history research.
Don't miss out on this fascinating look at how the 1921 census, released earlier this year, offers a snapshot of live in England and Wales a hundred years ago.
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. You can keep an eye out for these, and book your place, by clicking here.
The webinars last for approximately 1 hour and are free to BALH members. Non-members can join the sessions for £5 per session.
Regional Conference
BALH is heading to Taunton
The BALH are hosting our first ever regional conference in Taunton, Somerset on Saturday 22nd October 2022. The theme of the conference is to discuss unexpected local history sources, and our speakers will be discussing a range of source types from Court of Wards and Liveries to local politics and taxation records.
Video Shorts - Our Ten-Minute Talks
Our latest Ten-Minute Talks are available to access on the BALH website, and they cover a range of topics. These include:
A Glimpse of Local History: Halse and the Jubilee 2022 with Adrian Webb.
Victorian Gender Ideals and Britain’s Female Prime Ministers with Darcy Mueller.
Irish Language in the Black Country with Simon Briercliffe.
A full listing of our available Ten-Minute Talks can be found here.
Do you have a local history topic you could create a Ten-Minute Talk for? We’d love to hear from you! Details on how you can get involved can be found at the link below.
Read more:
Promote your research through a Ten-Minute Talk
Local History Blog
We’ve got lots of fascinating blogs on our website covering a range of topics and periods in history. These include:
How Further Education Students can Breathe New Life into the Local History of where they Live by Antony Carpen
Information about the new Railway Work, Life and Death Project by Mike Ebester
Moreover, in June we organised a series of blogs relating to Queer history during Pride Month; you can read all of our blogs, here.
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.
Read more:
Read our blog
Local History Day
We thoroughly enjoyed meeting some of you online and in person on Saturday 11th June for Local History Day, which was our first hybrid event. We had a fantastic set of speakers for the day, and lots of fascinating conversations.
If you missed the day, or wanted to revisit some of your favourite moments, we have uploaded videos of the day onto our YouTube channel.
Read more:
View the recordings of Local History Day
Local History Hour
We have lots of exciting Local History Hours lined up for this later this year! After a short break over the summer, we will be back with Local History Hours covering a range of fascinating topics. Remember, if you missed one of our Local History Hours please do not worry – we have overviews of the evenings on our blog.
Local History Hour and webinars, like the majority of our events, are free for BALH members, or £5 for non-members.
Details of the Local History Hour programme will be published in our events listing.
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.
New Essay Prize
The London Topographical Society is funding a new prize in honour of the late Dr Ann Saunders. A prize of £1,000 will be offered annually for an original and unpublished research essay on the topography, development or buildings of London in any period.
Submissions should be made by 1st April 2023, and the essay must be no more than 8,000 words including endnotes. This should include an additional abstract summary of about 200 words.
Read more:
Find out more about the prize
Podcast
The Local History Matters podcast is back! In this series, we are going back to basics and talking through the different ways you can get started in and share your local history research. You can listen to all episodes of the podcast, here.
Would you like to be part of a Local History Matters podcast episode and share more about your research? We’d love to hear from you! Email socialmedia@balh.org.uk to find out more about how you can get involved.
Publications
Our latest publications should have now reached our members’ doors, and there are plenty of exciting articles to read about.
Members should have received their copies in the post; if you are interested in reading a digital copy, they can be found on our website.
Read more:
Local History News
#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.
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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