#LocalHistory

Do you do #LocalHistory? Some of you know I’ve just joined the British Association for Local History (BALH) as an Outreach Committee member. I’ll be after insights from time to

Dimitri Nakassis

DimitriNakassis

So in preparation for this talk, I was re-reading @margalitfox's fabulous book on Alice Kober and the decipherment of Linear B, and I realized that the great AK spent some

Peter Witt, the Traction Commissioner of Cleveland, Ohio, USA passed away #OnThisDay in 1948. You might believe that this holds no significance to local history & that I may be

Small - mostly rural - bus companies are one of the things that have made me think hardest about #LocalHistory, being a historian and how we describe histories of place.

Society for One-Place Studies

OnePlaceStudies

The Ancient Order of Foresters, nowadays the Foresters Friendly Society, is one of the oldest such organisations in the UK. In my Waters Upton #OnePlaceStudy the Hearts of Oak Lodge

Centre for the History of People Place & Community

And welcome! We are now under way with Shaun Evans (@YstadauCymru) and Scott Lloyd of @RCAHMWales who'll be introducing the @ahrcpress-funded project 'Deep Mapping Estate Archives' [cont.]https://twitter.com/YstadauCymru/status/

THREAD Inspired by @EEWomensMuseum #womenshistoryonmywalk I set about finding women's history in @LBofHavering Discovered we've no @EnglishHeritage #blueplaques but we're not without #LocalHistory So spent my #BankHoliday learning about s