The Alan Ball Local History Awards in the United Kingdom exist to recognise outstanding contributions in local history publishing (both in print and in new media), and to encourage the publishing of such works by public libraries and local authorities.Local Studies Alan Ball Local History Awards Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, published 2011-11-02, accessed 2012-05-06 The awards were established in the 1980sAm Baile – Highland website wins national history award , Am Baile, published 2004-11-15, accessed 2012-05-06 and were originally run by the Library Services Trust. but are now run by the CILIP Local Studies Group. They are named after the local history author and former chief librarian of the London Borough of Harrow. A maximum of three awards are made each year. More details can be found on the current organisers' website.
Awards The following is the partial list of award winners.
2021 Hard-copy joint winner: The Picture of Yarmouth: 200 Years of Built Heritage. Published by the Great Yarmouth Local History & Archaeological Society. Hard-copy joint winner: Louise Ryland-Epton (ed), Bremhill Parish Through the Ages: The Heritage of a Wiltshire Community. Published by the Bremhill Parish History Group. Hard-copy highly commended: Lewis N Wood, Banstead War Memorial – 100 Years: An Illustrated history. Published by the Banstead History Research Group. Hard-copy highly commended: Clare Wichbold – Hard Work – But Glorious: Stories from the Herefordshire Suffrage Campaign (self-published). Community award joint winner: Alison Wilson with Anna Crutchley and Lilian Rundblad, photography by Faruk Kara, A Community Remembers: Histon Road (book with CD). Published by the Histon Road Area Residents Association. Community award joint winner: Nunnery Lane and Clementhorpe: Exploring Old Shops and Pubs in York. Published by the Clements Hall Local History Group. E-publication: South West Heritage Trails – Torbay Discovery Heritage Trail https://www.southwestheritagetrails.org.uk/. Published by South West Heritage Trust.
2020 Hard-copy winner: John Simpson (ed), Managing Poverty: Cheltenham Settlement Examinations and Removal Orders, 1831-5 2. Published by the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Highly commended: Rowan Whimster, Ramsbury: A Place and its People. Published by the Friends of the Holy Cross Church, Ramsbury. Community award: Louise Wong (ed.), Crossing the Borders [Stories of the S E Asian communities in Manchester]. An NLHF funded project by the Wai Yin Society / Manchester University / Ahmed Iqbal Ulah RACE centre – Manchester Central Library / Manchester Art Gallery. E publication award: Stroudwater History website – https://stroudwaterhistory.org.uk. Published by the Stroudwater Navigation Archive Charity.
2019
Delving along the Derwent: a history of 200 quarries and the people who worked in them, National Stone Centre. The Post War History of Leicester 1945-1962 (web site), East Midlands Oral History Archive.
2018
A Swindon Time Capsule: Working Class Life 1899-1984. Highlights from the Dixon-Attwell Collection held at Swindon Central Library, by Graham Carter, Swindon Heritage, Local Studies (Swindon Libraries). Poole, the First World War and its Legacy (web site), Poole Museum. Bristol Old Vic Archive (web site), Bristol Bristol Old Vic Heritage, Amy Spreadbury.
2017
Miss Weeton, Governess and Traveller, ed Alan Roby; Wigan Archives. Spratton Local History Society website
2015
West Sussex Remembering 1914-18, eds. Martin Hayes and Emma White; West Sussex County Council. Buxton Museum Apps, Buxton Museum. Milford Street Bridge Project, Milford Street Bridge Project, St Edmunds Community Association.
2010 East Lothian Council, East Lothian 1945–2000, Sonia Baker (editor) Epping Forest District Council, The Life and Art of Octavius Dixie Deacon, Chris Pond and Richard Morris Nottinghamshire County Council, These Uncertaine Tymes: Newark and the Civilian Experience of the Civil Wars 1640–1660, Stuart JenningsWarwick author wins award for Nottinghamshire County Council, Nottinghamshire CC, published 2011-11-10
2007 Bedfordshire Women's Land Army (web site), Bedfordshire County Council, Stuart AntrobusBedfordshire Women's Land Army site wins award Bedfordshire history, published 08-03-25, accessed 2012-05-06 The Somerset Wetlands: An Ever Changing Environment, Somerset Books, Pat Hill-Cottingham, Derek Briggs, Richard Brunning, Andy King, Graham RixProper Gander: Issue No. 137 Somerset County Council, published 2008-09-12, accessed 2012-05-06
2006 Norfolk E-Map Explorer (web site), Norfolk County Councilon the web: British Archaeology 93, March/April 2007, accessed 2012-05-06 Viewing the Lifeless Body, A Coroner and his inquests held in Nottinghamshire Public Houses during the Nineteenth Century, 1828–1866, Nottinghamshire County Council, Bernard Heathcote.Alan Ball Local History award Nottinghamshire County Council, published 2007-01-02, accessed 2012-05-06
2005 Beyond the Grave: Exploring Newcastle's Burial Grounds, Newcastle City Council, Alan MorganBeyond the Grave: Exploring Newcastle's Burial Grounds Newcastle City Council, accessed 2012-05-06
2004 Am Baile/The Gaelic Village (web site), Highland Council, Interactive BureauThird design award in a month for Interactive Bureau , published 2004-11-08, accessed 2012-05-06 Steam And Speed: Railways Of Tyne And Wear, Newcastle upon Tyne City Council, Andy GuyTyne Bridge Publishing Books Win Awards – journal – September 07, 2004 – Id. 72443248 vLex, published 2004-09-07, accessed 2012-05-06 The Shadow of the Gallows: Crime and Punishment on Tyneside in the Eighteenth Century, Newcastle Libraries & Information Service, Barry Redfern Picture The Past (web site), Nottinghamshire County Council, Nottingham City Council, Derbyshire County Council and Derby City CouncilPress release Nottinghamshire County Council, published 2005-01-14, accessed 2012-05-06
2003 Kinder Scout: Portrait of a Mountain, Roly Smithrolysmith.com , accessed 2012-05-16
1999
Southwark: An Illustrated History, London Borough of Southwark, Leonard Reilly City of Westminster Leading the way: a history of Lancashire's roads, Lancashire County Council, Alan Crosby
1998
City of Newcastle upon Tyne, Richard Caddel and Anthony Flowers Guardian of the Trent: The Story of Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire County Council, Pamela Marshall and John Samuels Stockport: a History, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, Peter Arrowsmith
1997
All about Bede: the life and times of the Venerable Bede, 672 - 735 AD, City of Sunderland, Terry Deary The History of Croxley Green Through Its Street Names, Croxley Green Parish Council, Shirley Greenman The Lancashire cotton industry : a history since 1700, Lancashire County Council, Mary B Rose
1996
Contrasts in a Victorian city, Birmingham: sources and notes for a study of Victorian Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, Richard Albutt, Martin Flynn, Philippa Bassett, Jackie Inman Working Children in Nineteenth Century Lancashire, Lancashire County Council, Michael Winstanley William Morris at Merton, London Borough of Merton, David Saxby
1994
Essex Gold: Fortunes of the Essex Oysterman, Essex County Council, Hervey Benham Durham Cathedral: artists & images, Durham County Council, Patricia R. Andrew Merton Priory, London Borough of Merton, Penny Bruce and Simon Mason Beardmore built: the rise and fall of a Clydeside shipyard, Clydebank District Council, Ian Johnston Shropshire From the Air: Man and The Landscape, Shropshire County Council, Michael Watson and Chris Musson
1993
Romans on the Wight, Isle of Wight County Council Riot!: the story of the East Lancashire loom-breakers in 1826, Lancashire County Council, Jim Walker Newcastle's changing map, City of Newcastle upon Tyne, M Barke and RJ Buswell The Wakes of Northamptonshire: A Family History, Northamptonshire County Council, Peter Gordon Huddersfield: A Most Handsome Town, Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council, EA Hilary Haigh
1992
I-spy the London borough of Sutton, London Borough of Sutton Cinemas of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne City Libraries and Arts, Frank Manders Tameside 1066–1700, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, Michael Nevell
1991
Southwold River: Georgian Life in the Blyth Valley, Suffolk County Council, Rachel Lawrence Old Runcorn, Halton Borough Council, H F Starkey Waterways of Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire County Council, David Blagrove A Fighting Trade: Rail Transport in Tyne Coal, 1600-1800, Gateshead Metropolitan District Council, G. Bennett, E Clavering and A Rounding Archive Map Collection, Gateshead Metropolitan District Council, Les Turnbull
1990
The goodliest place in Middlesex: being a history of the ancient parish of Ruislip which comprised Ruislip, Northwood, Eastcote, Ruislip Manor and South Ruislip, Hillingdon Libraries, Eileen M. Bowlt [Author Award] Williams Barnes: The Somerset Engravings, Somerset County Libraries, Laurence Keen [Book Production Award]
1989 Author: Eileen M. Bowlt, Hillingdon Libraries Book production: Somerset County Library, Keen
1988 Patrick Dillon & Wiltshire County Library
1987 Author: Helen & Richard Leacroft Book production: Cambridgeshire Libraries, Storey
1986 Author: Eleanor & Rex C. Russell Book production: Northamptonshire Libraries, Rowland Holloway
See also
List of history awards British Association for Local History English county histories English local history The Whitfield Prize Wolfson History Prize
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