Thanks to Gerard McSweeney for his reply -
>UK not interested in History?
>Every city, town & village seems to have its band of devoted amateurs, in
>our case it includes quite a high proportion of retired scientists. We have
>a lecture by a local or distant expert every week in winter, spring & early
>summer. Etc etc....!>>
And don't we envy you too - with all those facilities - we were members
of the BALH too.
We live in a suburb of the oldest provincial City in Queensland where the
oldest house is dated about 1846 - so there is a lot of catching up to do
over here.
We think you are probably right when you say that probably many of those
interested in local history are not on the internet, as yet. We feel sure
it will come - as word spreads about how much information is being
exchanged by people with similar interests.
We took about two years to decide it would be worth being on the internet,
as all the media attention is focused on 'current events' and on-line
shopping and on-line banking - none of which had any appeal for us - but
once we found out about the mailing lists like local-history there was no
stopping us. We have found that there is a lot of historical information
available on the internet already, plus a great many people with knowledge
who are more than happy to share it. We put up our old letters onto a
website at the instigation of a member of another history list, as she felt
that there would be a lot of interest in our letters - and we have had a
surprising amount of feedback from them.
So maybe as the word spreads, there will be more and more local historians
joining the web and adding their information - this has to be a really
good example of the positive side of the internet.
Gerard - your society sounds really active - where is it, and what is
your particular interest?
Cheers from Eunice and Ron in Queensland
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