Past Events
A View from Above: Local Histories and Aerial Prospection
Tuesday 4th November 2025
Discover how LiDAR technology is transforming local history, as Dr Wendy Morrison reveals how high-resolution aerial data from the Beacons of the Past project is uncovering hidden traces of human activity across the Chilterns.
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Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk
Tuesday 4th November 2025
The British Records Association invites participants to explore past, present, and future risks to UK archives and to discuss preservation strategies for the 21st century.
Study Day: Jane Austen and Southampton
Saturday 18th October 2025
To commemorate and celebrate 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth, SeaCity Museum is hosting a day of illuminating and entertaining talks and performances about one of Hampshire’s most famous daughters, and the town she sometimes called home.
Drax of Drax Hall, researching the landed gentry in Britain and Caribbean
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Paul Lashmar explores the Drax family’s 500-year involvement in the sugar trade through newly published research spanning archives in Britain and Barbados.
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Why History Matters: The Countess of Derby’s History Study Days
Wednesday 15th – Thursday 16th October 2025
The Countess of Derby’s second series of Why History Matters study days at Knowsley Hall explores the lives and legacies of the 13th and 14th Earls of Derby. With expert speakers, rare journals, and guided tours of the Hall, these events reveal how the Derby family shaped British political, cultural, and artistic life across six centuries.
The Mendlesham Armoury: Reports and Reflections on the progress of the Mendlesham Armoury Research Project
Saturday 11th October 2025
In 2024, the Mendlesham Armoury Research Group secured National Lottery Heritage Funding for two purposes: to conserve and re-display the collection, and to enable a small team of volunteers to read and transcribe the many early modern parish documents in Suffolk Archives, Ipswich. The team is publishing a comprehensive booklet of their transcriptions and interpretations, which will be launched at this conference.
Crossing Counties: Transport History in Herts, Beds and Bucks
Saturday 11th October 2025
Join us in Bedfordshire this October for a one-day conference exploring coaching inns, canals, airships, archaeology and buses. A rich journey through local transport history hosted by BALH in partnership with Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire local history associations.
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Votes for Women – Everywhere: 1866-1928
Wednesday 8th October 2025
It took 62 years of campaigning for all women to gain the right to vote in parliamentary elections on the same terms as men. From its beginning in 1866 the campaign was conducted throughout the four nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
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Worth 200: Celebrating Charles Frederick Worth in Bourne
Saturday 20th September 2025
This September, Aveland History Group marks the bicentenary of Charles Frederick Worth’s birth with a day of free lectures during Heritage Open Days.
Explorers and Innovators
Saturday 6th September 2025
Join the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology for Explorers and Innovators—a full day of fascinating talks, music, and stories celebrating Lincolnshire’s global trailblazers, from eighteenth-century explorers to pioneering scientists, abolitionists, and reformers.
Armada! Study Day: Southampton Merchants & the Spanish Armada
Saturday 2nd August 2025
An exciting study day exploring the impact of the Spanish Armada on Southampton and wider maritime communities, as part of a major outreach project from the University of Southampton. Includes expert talks, exhibition, film screening, and creative interpretations.
The 48th Latin and Palaeography Summer School
Monday 14th – Friday 18th July 2025
An online school for beginners and improvers. Formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School
Jane Austen’s Social Networks and the Wider World
Wednesday 18th June 2025
How Austen Experienced the Globalised World on the Pavements of Southampton
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Oswald Iding of Northumbria AD604-642, King & Supersaint
Thursday 12th June 2025
Bedale Archaeology & History Society’s next meeting will be a talk from Dr Dyno Keatinge.
BALH Annual General Meeting 2025
Thursday 22nd May 2025
The BALH AGM business followed by a talk 'Writing the Local History of the British Civil Wars' by BALH President Professor Jackie Eales.
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Muddy Petticoats and Parasols: Uncovering Jane Austen's experience of walking
Wednesday 21st May 2025
Join the Hampshire Archives Trust for a beautifully illustrated talk by historian Nicola Pritchard-Pink, exploring Jane Austen’s experience of walking—through muddy lanes, shifting social norms, and the personal freedom it offered—revealed through her letters, landscapes, and Georgian life.
Trafalgar Days Costumed Guided Walk
Sunday 4th May 2025
A Theatrical Guided Walk for Jane Austen 250
NB There will be very few Dates in this History
Sunday 4th May 2025
A Theatrical Guided Walk for Jane Austen 250
Placing Jane - National Figures, Local Context
Saturday 3rd May 2025
The British Association for Local History are delighted to present this conference as part of the Jane Austen 250 programme and Local and Community History Month.
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Hugo Javier Freitas
Laura Yeoman
