Past Events
BALH Annual General Meeting
Thursday 18th May 2023
Open to both members and non-members. AGM will be followed by a talk: Risk and choice: a new approach to local history, Sevenoaks 1790-1914 by David Killingray and Iain Taylor. We will also be announcing our Outstanding Achievement and Publication award winners for 2023.
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BALH Digital Webinar: Archiving Your Local History Collection
Tuesday 9th May 2023
With Dr Ellie Pridgeon, a consultant archivist having worked for numerous museums, universities and community archives across the UK. She also teaches medieval material culture Universities of Leicester, Oxford and Cambridge.
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The Historic Town of Beverley: because of a saint
Thursday 27th April 2023
This event is run by BALH in partnership with the Historic Towns Trust, part of a series of four evening lectures in 2023.
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Mapping Urban Britain from the Past to the Past: a Scottish view on three episodes in cartographic history
Thursday 6th April 2023
This event is run by BALH in partnership with the Historic Towns Trust, part of a series of four evening lectures in 2023.
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Southampton local history film screenings
Monday 27th March 2023
The Sarah Siddons Fan Club present the premiere of "The Chameleon and the Fly" and two more local history films at Hangar Farm Arts Centre.
A Theatrical Perambulation around the black history of Georgian Southampton
Saturday 25th – Sunday 26th March 2023
This Hidden History tell the story of slaves and deserters, but also of writers, actors and survivors.
Layers of London
Thursday 23rd March 2023
This event is run by BALH in partnership with the Historic Towns Trust, part of a series of four evening lectures in 2023.
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The CWGC – an introduction to the history and ongoing work of the CWGC
Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Join Hampshire Archives Trust to learn from Megan Kelleher and Will Reid, representatives of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, about the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, focusing on Hampshire examples.
BALH Digital Webinar: Creating Engaging YouTube Videos For Local and Family History
Thursday 9th March 2023
YouTube is the world's largest video platform, making publishing in this medium available to all. For the local and family historian, YouTube offers an excellent opportunity to both promote research projects and tell the fascinating stories of people and places discovered along the way.
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Boudica and the Romans: Battlefields Trust Study Day
Saturday 4th March 2023
The East Anglia Region of the Battlefields Trust presents a study day looking at Boudica and the Romans.
A Brief History of Swansea as ‘Metropolis of Wales’
Thursday 23rd February 2023
This event is run by BALH in partnership with the Historic Towns Trust, part of a series of four evening lectures in 2023.
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‘Blood and misery in this sad tragedie’ – The nature and impact of the English Civil War in Hampshire
Wednesday 15th February 2023
Join Hampshire Archives Trust to learn from Alistair Dougall, Hampshire Archives Trustee, about what is was like in Hampshire during the English Civil War.
BALH Digital Webinar: Effective Social Media For Local History
Thursday 9th February 2023
Social media platforms offer a great way to both network with others and promote local and family history projects.
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Investigating Institutions
Thursday 26th January 2023
Join us as we host three expert speakers who will be considering how to investigate institutions you may come across in your historical research. The evening will consist of three short talks, followed by a discussion between our speakers and hosts (representing both BALH and Society for One-Place Studies). There will be time for audience questions at the end.
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Importance of place in family history
Wednesday 11th January 2023
Else Churchill joins us from the Society of Genealogists. In order to successfully research their families, genealogists look also at the people they associated with and the networks they moved in – often within local communities.
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Researching Hampshire Family History
Saturday 17th December 2022
Join Hampshire Archives Trust to learn from Joe Saunders, freelance family and house historian and Associate of the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives, about researching your family history
Landscape, environment and learning histories : BALH Dymond Lecture 2022
Thursday 8th December 2022
A special BALH event with a talk by Professor Briony McDonagh, Environmental Humanities at the University of Hull
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BALH Local History Hour: Moving Local Political History Centre Stage
Thursday 24th November 2022
Our series of Local History Hour talks with a variety of speakers from the local history world.
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Humour and Satire in the Long Nineteenth Century
Thursday 24th November 2022
An event from MMU PGR/ECR Long Nineteenth Century
Imagining the Black cook in the multi-ethnic Victorian city
Tuesday 22nd November 2022
London Journal 2022 annual lecture: Dr Caroline Bressey 'Imagining the Black cook in the multi-ethnic Victorian city
Hugo Javier Freitas
Laura Yeoman
