BALH Blog
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The British Association for Local History is a national charity that promotes local history and serves local historians. It publishes both The Local Historian, our quarterly journal, and Local History News, a topical magazine. This blog shares news and information on forthcoming BALH events and other announcements.
BALH Blog
6M ago
Sharon O’Connor, from the Dulwich Society local history group shares some things to consider when organising local history walks, based on the group’s experience ..read more
BALH Blog
6M ago
Geoffrey Carter, from the Battlefields Trust and BALH shares his thoughts on battlefields as local history ..read more
BALH Blog
7M ago
Gavin Bowyer, a member of the Dulwich Society, Local History Study Group shares how original property deeds can be a key to unlocking local history ..read more
BALH Blog
7M ago
Heather Falvey's review in the Summer 2023 Local History News of 'Datchworth and Tewin in Tudor and Stuart Times' triggered an unexpected and happy memory of attending one of Lionel Munby's Hertfordshire classes ..read more
BALH Blog
8M ago
When I agreed in 2017 to take on the role of secretary of our local history society, I appreciated the fact that the society ran a very small museum (a tiny room off the library) which was open for a couple of hours on a Saturday morning, and that they arranged talks most months on a variety of subjects, sometimes of a historical nature.  ..read more
BALH Blog
8M ago
Sharon O’Connor, from the Dulwich Society local history group shares how they use an audio post to share local history with the public ..read more
BALH Blog
8M ago
Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal, editor for the Bibliography of British and Irish History shares how you can discover what’s already been published in your field ..read more
BALH Blog
11M ago
Simon Fowler explains how he has been researching and writing articles for a local online newspaper ..read more
BALH Blog
11M ago
Sharon O’Connor from the Dulwich Society local history group discusses how they came to run online talks, how others might do the same and what the impact has been on them ..read more