The Local Historian

The Local Historian contains articles and features for the general reader that may be of a wide, perhaps national, application or may reflect a local subject.

There is emphasis on applying principles and methods to local research and study, so that you can benefit from the work of others. Family historians can learn about the local world in which their forebears lived and worked. There are extensive reviews and lists of publications.

Published in February, May, August and November.

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Why BALH?

Nick Barratt Historian and Author

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

Heather Falvey Reviews Editor for The Local  Historian

Heather Falvey, Reviews Editor for The Local Historian

Heather, Reviews Editor for The Local Historian, has been a BALH member since 1993, starting with a Certificate in Local History at Cambridge. A tutor in local and social history at Oxford and Cambridge, she has been involved in local history publishing for over 20 years as Secretary of the Hertfordshire Record Society. Her research focuses on early modern social unrest, with a PhD from Warwick and multiple publications. She has edited historical texts, including Baroness Elizabeth Dimsdale’s Receipt Book and Walter Morrell’s Manufacture for the New Draperie, and is currently editing the letters of Humphry Repton’s family.

Heather Falvey, Reviews Editor for The Local Historian