List of past events organised by the Local Studies Group or its regional sub-groups
7th December 2011
"Smile, please": photographs for the future. Local Studies Group North West day school at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, Manchester.
18th October 2011
Mapping the past, present and future: how to utilise maps inside and outside your collection. Local Studies Group South day school at Hampshire Record Office.
23rd June 2011
Local Studies: Sustainability in the Digital Age. Local Studies Group conference and AGM at the National Archives.
18th May 2011
Spanning the Centuries. Local Studies Group North West day school with talks and visits to some of the finest special collections in Manchester.
17th November 2010
Archiving for All. Local Studies Group North West day school and AGM at the University of Manchester.
22th June 2010
Local Studies Group South
Behind the scenes at the Surrey History Centre, Woking
12th May 2010
Sound and Vision: Recording our Histories. Local Studies Group North West oral history and film history day school at Clitheroe Castle.
26th April 2010
Visit to the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL), Reading
and the Local Studies Group South AGM.
27th February 2010
Joint meeting of Local Studies Group South & Society of Archivists SE at Crawley Library, looking at record office and library co-operation, an online newspaper indexing project and a tour of the new Crawley Library.
13th October 2009
North West Day School
Local and Family History in the Modern World: Day school on Local Studies skills
7th October 2009
Midlands & Anglia Day School
Beating the Crunch: Making the most of Local Studies resources in difficult times.
Some of the presentations are available to view on Slideshare.
8th June 2009
Local Studies Group Conference and AGM at the The National Archives, Kew
Engaging Communities: Local Studies in the 21st Century
13th May 2009
University Of Manchester
Archiving for all: A day school on Archiving skills. Do you have archive material in your collection and are unsure how to deal with it?
28th April 2009
Imperial War Museum
A new regional sub-group covering the London, South East and South West branch areas has been established with the aim of providing opportunities for visits, CPD and networking amongst LSG members in the South of England.
The Local Studies Group took part in Umbrella in June 2007. Diana Dixon has written a report on this. See Reports.
19th September 2007
Midlands and Anglia Annual Day School and AGM, Nottingham Central Library
Using your initiative: connecting local studies with the regional and national agenda
Thursday 26th April 2007
Society of Archivists North West and CILIP Local Studies Group North West Training Day
Community Archives and Local Studies
CRIC Conference Centre, Manchester
12th October 2006
Visit to The National Archives, Kew
5th October 2006
Midlands and Anglia Sub-Group Day School and AGM, Solihull Central Library
Catch Them Young: Using Local Studies Material with Schools and Children
29th March 2006
Local Studies Group Wales
Local Studies in Wales at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
30th November 2005
North West Local Studies Group
Family History Day School and Annual General Meeting at Manchester and Lancs Family History Society Library
21st September 2005
Midlands and Anglia Local Studies Group
Word of Mouth: Managing Oral History Projects. Annual Day School and Annual General Meeting at Nottingham Central Library
September 6 2004
Midlands and Anglia Local Studies Group
PICTURE IT! - Exploiting your Illustrations Collections. Annual Day School and Annual General Meeting at Solihull Public Library,
October 1 2003
Midlands and Anglia Local Studies Group
New Directions in Family History Annual Day School and Annual General Meeting at Nottingham Central Library. Speakers included Philip Jones (freelance researcher), Richard Harvey (former Librarian at the Guildhall Library), Helen Campbell (National Archives) and Jean Archdeacon of Norfolk Libraries.
October 17 2002
CILIP South Western Branch
Digitisation of the Visual Image, a one day course held at Exeter Central Library
November 4 2002
Local Studies Group
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF THE LOCAL STUDIES GROUP Speakers included Ian Maxted recalling 25 years; Don Martin on the Guidelines for local studies and Diana Dixon on the literature of local studies.
November 6 2002
Welsh branch
Day school in Aberystwyth to mark the silver jubilee of the Local Studies Group
September 18 2002
Midlands and Anglia Branch
Local studies and social inclusion. Day school at Alfreton Library, Derbyshire and AGM of the Local Studies Group. Speakers were Elizabeth Melrose, Out or in? Social inclusion, equal oppoortunities and local studies. Malcolm Dick on Birmingham's multi-media archive, The Millennium Project. Dr Mandy Morris, Talking histories: the work of the east Midland Oral History Archive. Terry Bracher, Northamptonshire Black History project.
July 13 2002
Welsh Branch
Visit to Rhonda Heritage Park
May 29 2002
Welsh Branch
1801 and all that: the significance of the census. Day school at Llandrindod Wells.
April 17 2002
North West Branch
Muskets to machine guns: memoirs of military men. Day school at Fulwood Barracks, Preston.
March 23 2002
London and Home Counties Branch
The London Maze…, held at Bishopsgate Institute, London. A local history fair with stands from a dozen local history organisations, including the London Metropolitan Archives, Westminster Archives, London Topographical Society, Guildhall Library, Photo London, and the National Monuments Record. There were talks by Dr Andrea Tanner on "Researching local history: hospitals and workhouses", Ian Maxted on "Sources for economic and industrial geography: a case study of the London book trades", Dr Cathy Ross "The new nineteenth century galleries and other sources for local history at the Museum of London" and Katherine Burke on "The Post Office Archive". There were also guided walks of Spitalfields and the eastern fringes of the city. The event was a great success with 325 visitors
March 20 2002
Scottish Branch
Digital ancestors
January 23 2002
Scottish Branch
Visit to Scotsman newspaper library
October 31 2001
Scottish Branch
Day school on Scottish photography