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BALH awards for local history 2010
,At Local History Day in London on 5 June 2010 the following were presented with certificates by the BALH President Dr David Hey:
for personal achievement
Nat Alcock, Warwickshire: for research and publication on vernacular architecture, for supporting others in this field, and for his work with the British Records Association.
Kay Collins, Rushden, Northamptonshire: founder member of Rushden & District History Society and leader of Rushden Research Group; responsible for an accessible interactive website that encourages all ages to participate.
Jeremy Moody, Salisbury: for research into local social history that is shared in diverse and original ways through community involvement in plays, musicals, exhibitions and publications.
Rex Russell, Lincolnshire: for his commitment to local history in Lincolnshire, continuing long after retirement to enthuse others to research and publish, and to encourage the establishment of local groups.
for a society newsletter
Cheltenham Local History Society
for research and publication
[overall winner] Patricia Newton, ‘”And the Laxey River runs down to the Sea”: the farming landscape of Lonan and the Laxey Valley’, Proceedings of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society vol.12 no.1 (2008)
Carolyn Greet, ‘”Every measure that may gratify the public”: Humphrey Ruff’s contribution to Cheltenham’, Cheltenham Local History Society Journal no.25 (2009)
Graham Hendy, ‘A pretty easy way of dawdling away one’s time: the canons of Winchester in the long eighteenth century’, Hampshire Studies: Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society vol.63 (2008)
Kevin R. Stephenson, ‘The forgotten pleasure and strawberry gardens of Hull’, East Yorkshire Historian: Journal of the East Yorkshire Local History Society vol.10 (2009)
[short article award] Malcolm Walford, ‘The 1934 survey of Hampshire’s rural lanes’, Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society Newsletter no.52 (Autumn 2009)
New publication - Directory of Internet Sites
,A new Directory of Local History Internet Sites has been published by the British Association for Local History. This is an up-to-date guide to 353 websites, some national and some local. It points you to sources for local history such as documents, maps, photos, artefacts and archives, museums and memorial inscriptions. You can move from 1881 Pubs to Your Maps Online via Anglo-Saxon Prosopography, Churchplans Online and Hidden Lives Revealed, where you can encounter the young people in the care of The Children’s Society in Victorian Britain. The guide covers the major websites for historical material such as A2A as well as less well-known ones like the Seeley History Library, Cambridge, which includes a monthly online list of all articles in the journals it receives. Some of the websites enable you to trace individuals, some to find recent background information, and others point you to research material. The Directory is indexed by subjects, people and places.
The 2010 Directory is a bargain at £2 plus £1 P. and P. You can obtain a copy from Gill Draper on development.balh@btinternet.com
It will also be available at Local History Day on 5 June in London, Bamber Gascoigne and Jacquelené Fillmore, the author of the Directory, will lead the morning discussion session on Local History and the Internet
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