Past Events
'From Fields and the Forest to Royals and the Railway' - a Virtual Tour of Chingford
Saturday 3rd April 2021
Churches and Chapels in Victorian Grantham
Wednesday 31st March 2021
A talk for Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology (SLHA), presented by Dr John Manterfield.
Colonial rule: Aspects of the British impact on Indian rural society
Monday 29th March 2021
A talk from the British Agricultural History Society
Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend
Saturday 27th – Sunday 28th March 2021
Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend, comprises 13 online events; mostly lectures, and two films.
BALH Local History Hour: The English Civil Wars in the Localities
Thursday 25th March 2021
Our series of Local History Hour talks with a variety of speakers from the local history world.
BALH Event
'From Monoux and Morris to Beer and Bacon Jam' - a Virtual Tour of Walthamstow
Thursday 25th March 2021
'From Monoux and Morris to Beer and Bacon Jam' - a Virtual Tour of Walthamstow
Saturday 20th March 2021
57th Annual Conference of London Archaeologists
Saturday 20th March 2021
London And Middlesex Archaeological Society via Zoom
BALH Digital Webinar : Using Zoom for Local History
Wednesday 17th March 2021
The BALH's Digital Team will be running a webinar on how to use Zoom to host online meetings and lectures for local history societies.
BALH Event
Huguenot Footsteps: Bethnal Green
Saturday 13th March 2021
A walk round the area to see and hear about the lives of these hardworking Journeymen weavers, who worked 12-14 hours 6 days a week.
BALH Digital Webinar : How To Grow Your Local History Social Media Presence
Wednesday 10th March 2021
BALH’s Social Media Fellow, Daniella Gonzalez will provide an introduction to the various social media platforms available and how local history societies can best use them to promote their work and engage with the wider history community.
BALH Event
Local history: approaches to the national narrative from the local viewpoint
Wednesday 10th March 2021
A look at how local history can be used to understand and interpret events that are well-known and deemed to be of national importance, in this webinar from the Historical Association.
Lives of our Ancestors: Recent and Long-standing Local History Sources
Saturday 6th March 2021
A Society of Genealogists talk. BALH's Dr Gill Draper focuses on listing resources and indexes and in keeping them up-to-date.
Machine Reading Medieval Latin Texts: the Launch of the UCL/Toronto Transkribus model
Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Teams from the Bentham Project, University College London, and the DEEDS (Documents of Early England Data Set) project, University of Toronto, have collaborated to develop a publicly-available and free-to-use model, available through the Transkribus platform, for the accurate machine-reading of medieval Latin texts.
Water under the feet: new perspectives on watery landscapes
Monday 1st March 2021
A talk from the British Agricultural History Society
Suffragette Surgeons: The Women who ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital
Friday 26th February 2021
When war broke out in 1914 dozens of women doctors offered their services – but they were told by the British Army to “Go home and sit still”.
BALH Local History Hour: Rebellion in Medieval Kent: Jack Cade, the Battle of Solefields and Knole House
Thursday 25th February 2021
The first of our new series of Local History Hour talks with a variety of speakers from the local history world.
BALH Event
Hugo Javier Freitas
Laura Yeoman
