Local History News - Number 126 - Winter 2018

The magazine of the British Association for Local History.

Contents

• DI Crosby on the case 
• WWI Conscription, Conscience and Courage in Herefordshire 
• The Yorkshire Historic Dictionary 
• Searching for Theatrical Ancestors 
• Bob Read ‘Our genial historian’ 
• David Sankey A ‘cornerstone of the community’ 
• Personal Achievement Award ‘commended’ 
• Methodist Records and the Local Historian 
• CELEBRATING CIVIC LIFE 
• Public Art in the Landscape 
• Strange spellings and scribal errors: difficulties encountered when transcribing wills  
• Film and local history 
• Proposing a county societies network 
• GDPR AND LOCAL SOCIETIES:GENERAL ADVICE 
• The happiest place for local history? 
• Mary Brown's story 
• Societies News 
• Archives News 
• Museums News 
• Libraries News 
• Education News 
• Guided Walks 1 June 2018 YORK 
• Trustees' Report 2017 
• BALH Trustee profile - Jonathan Mackman 
• Yorkshire Dales Life and Tradition: a Celebration 
• Jane Austen and Southampton Spa 
• Local history en vacances 
• Minutes (abridged) of the Annual General Meeting 
• Notes / News / Issues