Online Reviews
This online reviews section will be updated each quarter, to coincide with the appearance of the journal, and a list of books reviewed will be printed in each issue.
Fri 30th October 2026
Tue 25th August 2026
Why BALH?
Where did your ancestors live?
It is impossible to trace the history of one’s family without considering where they lived. Local history societies and one-place study groups have researched and published content that will allow you to place the lives of your ancestors in the context of their local communities, villages, towns and cities as well as some of the key socio-economic factors that lay behind their development. They often use the same sources as family historians, and can help provide an alternative interpretation of a document or suggest new resources to help your research.
Nick Barratt, Historian and Author
Meet the team
Susan Moore
Susan has spent her career as a freelance researcher specializing in archives since graduating from St Andrews in 1974. She has worked on diverse projects, including family, manor, house, village, and business histories, with a particular interest in tracing complex property deeds. Specializing in Court of Equity records, she authored Family Feuds: An Introduction to Chancery Proceedings and Tracing Your Ancestors through the Equity Courts. She regularly speaks on Chancery records, highlighting their value for local historians. Active in her local history society, she hopes to research her own village when client projects slow down.
Susan Moore, Trustee
Thu 19th November 2026 7:00 pm
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