Past Events
Researching Hampshire Local History through Newspapers
Saturday 19th November 2022
Join Hampshire Archives Trust to learn from Nick Saunders about researching local history and family history through newspapers.
The Restoration of Scruton Station, the Heritage Education Programme and the Wensleydale Railway
Tuesday 15th November 2022
Middleham and Dales Local History Group
Really Useful Family History Show
Friday 11th – Saturday 12th November 2022
BALH will be taking part in the popular virtual family history show organised by the Family History Federation
BALH Local History Hour: Working class writing in the nineteenth century
Thursday 27th October 2022
Our series of Local History Hour talks with a variety of speakers from the local history world.
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Unexpected Sources for Local History
Saturday 22nd October 2022
BALH's Regional Conference in Taunton, Somerset.
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The Walkers of Hanningfield: Mapmakers of Tudor and Stuart Essex
Friday 21st October 2022
Join Essex Record Office (ERO) to discover the joy of maps, including a once ‘lost’ and now ‘found’ Essex map, and time-travel back to the landscapes they depict.
William Aislabie and the designed landscape of Kirkby Hall, Kirkby Fleetham
Wednesday 19th October 2022
Gail Falkingham, Middleham and Dales Local History Group
Study Day at Queen Street Mill
Saturday 1st October 2022
A visit to Britain's last operational steam-driven cotton mill
The Walls Clan of Coverdale (and friends) - from the Foresters Arms to The Somme
Tuesday 20th September 2022
Val Slater, Middleham and Dales Local History Group
BALH Digital Webinar : The 1921 Census: opportunities for local history
Tuesday 6th September 2022
How the recently released 1921 census might be used to inform (or inspire) local history research.
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Manorial Documents Register Conference 2022
Tuesday 6th September 2022
Manors and their records – why do they matter? Exploring their research potential, historical significance and value for the 21st century.
Yorkshire Heroes at Waterloo
Tuesday 19th July 2022
Paul Brunyee, Middleham and Dales Local History Group
Local History Day 2022
Saturday 11th June 2022
Local History Day returns this year for a blended in-person and virtual event, taking the best of our ever-popular annual conference and adding what we have learned digitally over the last two years. Visitors, in-person or virtual, will enjoy a packed day of local history for all.
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Local History Day 2022 (Virtual)
Saturday 11th June 2022
Local History Day returns this year for a blended in-person and virtual event, taking the best of our ever-popular annual conference and adding what we have learned digitally over the last two years. Visitors, physical or virtual, will enjoy a packed day of local history for all.
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BALH Local History Hour: Women Hiding in Documents: Women’s lives in 16th century patriarchal society
Thursday 26th May 2022
Our series of Local History Hour talks with a variety of speakers from the local history world.
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A Modest Sufficiency
Thursday 19th May 2022
What farmers and tradesmen ate in 16th and 17th centuries . Mark Dawson. Coddington History Group
Timothy Hutton of Clifton Castle and Marske-in-Swaledale
Tuesday 17th May 2022
Jane Hatcher, Middleham and Dales Local History Group
FACHRS Annual Conference and AGM
Saturday 14th May 2022
"Rocked up; Banged up; Strung up; The Criminal In the Community". A hybrid event, broadcast live from Leicester.
The Chapels Society Conference
Saturday 30th April 2022
The Chapels Society, in association with Harris Manchester College, Oxford, is organising a Day Conference on 'Communities of Dissent: 1850-1914'.
Hugo Javier Freitas
Laura Yeoman
