The British Association for Local History (BALH), in collaboration with Pharos Tutors, runs a variety of on-line courses aimed at developing your history research skills. Most take four or five weeks, and are reasonably priced at around £70:
- Victorian crime and punishment: courts, police and prisons, commencing 7 September.
- Wills and administrations; the riches of probate records, commencing 14 September.
- Understanding archives: getting the most from your research, commencing 15 September.
Local historian and OLHA committee member Liz Woolley will run her popular weekly class The City Of Oxford 1850 – 1914 again this autumn, at the Museum of Oxford in the Town Hall. The course will examine the enormous social, cultural and economic changes that Oxford underwent in this 65-year period. We will look at how the coming of the railway, university reforms, religious upheaval, a rise in real wages and increasing concern for public health and sanitation affected the provision of education, leisure and public services, employment opportunities and the rapid development of Oxford’s suburbs. The main focus will be on the ‘town’, rather than the ‘gown’. Bookings are now being taken; more information here.
Back to the main events page.