Report on the County Societies Symposium held at the Institute of Historical Research on Saturday 1 May 2010 This one day symposium was organised by the Victoria County History in partnership with the Institute of Historical Research, the British Association for Local History, the Historical Association, the Royal Historical Society...

Every June the British Humanist Association (BHA) holds an awareness week around International Humanist Day. This year's Humanist Week, 21-27 June, has the theme of Humanist Heritage. Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the BHA and a HA member says, 'From George Eliot to Aphra Behn, Viscount Morley to Bertrand Russell,...

Saturday 27th October 1962 marked the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was the day on which a Soviet SAM missile battery shot down an American U-2 spyplane over the Island. Declared American policy in such an event was to retaliate by launching an attack on an least one SAM...

"Weird, eccentric and everyday gadgets, contraptions and oddities from the past"How the collection startedIt all started down a hole in the ground on a Victorian rubbish dump in North London, my son, aged 13 decided that he wanted to dig for old bottles and pot lids on a local dump...

Report  from Strategic Academic Stakeholder Forum meeting, 19 February 2010 At the end of 2009, the National Archives formed the Strategic Academic Stakeholder Forum, which brings together senior management from TNA and representatives of the academic research community. The latter is represented by the Royal Historical Society, the British Academy,...

StoryVault.Com goes live - a portal to the past for future generationsHow often have you heard a person speaking and said "someone should record this before it's too late?" Fascinating memories from ordinary people which should not be allowed to be forgotten....Now you can, thanks to the ‘public' launch (1st...

In 2001, it was foreseen that, as each year passes, the number of veterans of the D Day Landings diminish while those that are left would find it increasingly difficult to stand "on parade" and march: the contrast between the parades marking the 65th anniversary of the Landings and the...

Records of thousands of people who lived in Chislehurst and district over a period of many centuries are now featured on the Kent Archaeological Society's website. The records, in the form of memorial inscriptions (‘MIs') on gravestones, tablets, tombs and monuments at St Nicholas, Chislehurst's 15th century parish church, were...

The full report "Embedding Shared Heritage" (2009) from the Heritage Diversity Taskforce has some useful thoughts about diversifying and democratising archives including developing a variety of different models of custody and shared ownership with communities and their archive collections. The Mayor's Commission on African and Asian Heritage (MCAAH) launched its report,...

The British Museum, in partnership with BBC Radio 4 are launching The History of the World in 100 Objects. The scheme encourages an examination of life, traditions and customs in the past through  100 carefully chosen artefacts. Each week is a different featured artefact. The museum holds an exhibition of...