A date for your diary
Saturday 16 June 2012, 10.30 - 4.30 at Friends' Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS
This year for the first time BALH's Local History Day moves to Manchester. Come and join us.
Programme:
Records of the Victorian Poor - Poor Law Union Correspondence: an underused source for local historians, Paul Carter, The National Archives (See our new publication 'Living the Poor Life' for more details about these exciting materials.)
BALH AGM
Local History Awards: presentation of the 2012 awards for personal achievement, for research and publication in local history and for a society newsletter
The annual BALH lecture: The local and the everyday: inter-war women's politics, Karen Hunt, Keele University
Tickets cost £18 for members, £25 for non-members and include coffee/tea on arrival and a sandwich lunch. For booking details see here: http://www.balh.co.uk/eventsbooking_form.php?id=78
Those who want to make a weekend of it, might like to know that on Friday 15 June there will be an extra guided visit to the John Rylands Library. See: www.balh.co.uk/events.php
Those who will travel by rail should remember that advance fares will be available from mid March. Book early and a ticket from London to Manchester costs a mere £12.
I look forward to meeting you there.
Regards
Ruth Paley
Hon Treasurer
BALH
PS For those of you who are not members of BALH, details of how to join are here: http://www.balh.co.uk/membership.php
Members receive the journal (The Local Historian) plus a news letter (Local History News) four times a year. There are also a range of other activities, plus the opportunity to get a heavily discounted personal subscription to one of the most essential tools for any historian, the Bibliography of British and Irish History.
An additional benefit for societies is membership of an insurance scheme that covers meetings, visits to historical sites, collection of archival materials and photographing sites of interest.
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