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The 43rd Local History Conference will be held on the 15th November 2008.

This year’s Local History Conference will be on the subject of ‘Recording London’ – title still to be confirmed. The theatre at the Museum of London will still be closed, so we will be returning to the City of London School for Girls, also within the Barbican complex. Details of the programme and exhibition space booking forms will follow later in the year.

The Conference is the venue for the annual Publications Award of £100 for which submissions are invited. To be eligible, the book or pamphlet, on a Local History topic, should be a stand-alone item. It can be large or small, but must show original research and add to the general knowledge of Greater London. It can be either published by an Affiliated Local History Society, or self-published by a member or members of that Society, between January 2007 and January 2008. The closing date for submissions is 31st May 2008 – entry forms available from Ann Hignell, details below.

The committee is seeking new members – the meetings are not too frequent, the duties not too onerous. Members attend either as a representative of their Local History Society or as an individual member of LAMAS. The Committee is responsible for both presenting concerns specific to Local History to the General Council, as well as disseminating that Council’s decisions in the opposite direction to the Affiliated Societies. We also co-ordinate the Local History Publications Award and arrange the Annual Local History Conference – which regularly gains an audience of over 250 delegates. Anyone interested should please contact Ann Hignell, details as below.

Ann Hignell, Sec., LAMAS Local History Committee
24 Orchard Close, Ruislip, Middx. HA4 7LS. 
e-mail: annhignell@waitrose.com

Full programme and booking form will be available here in either Word or PDF format; bookings can also be made via Paypal.

Past conferences:

The 2007 Local History conference: They came to London: 1,000 years of Migration
Programme

The 2006 Local History conference: Lost London
Programme

The 2005 Local History conference: When LAMAS began; London in 1855
Programme

The 2004 Local History conference: St Paul’s and the diocese of London: 1400 years
Programme

The 2003 Local History conference: Lunatick London
Programme

The 2002 Local History conference: Buying and selling in metropolitan London
Programme

The 2001 Local History conference: Edwardian London – a new era?
Programme

The 1999 Local History conference: The effect of Tudor and Stuart Royalty on the Greater London area
Programme

The 1998 Local History conference: Artist and Writers in the Metropolis
Programme

The 1997 Local History conference: The London of Human Frailty
Programme and a Report written by a member of the audience