Welcome to our Local History Courses Guide. With the help of our Guide, you should be able to get an indication of the kinds of courses on offer within the United Kingdom.

You could also visit HERO, the official gateway site to the UK's universities, colleges and research organisations.

Visit our news page about local history courses, Why do local history courses continue to decline?, to find out more.

More contacts please
If you know of any educational establishment organising local history courses which does not appear in our list, then please send us details so that we can contact them and add them to our guide.

Possible providers of 2008 university based local history courses:
Bristol
Cambridge Madingley Hall
Essex
Exeter
Keele
The University of Kent offers both Certicates and Diplomas in local history, various local history courses under the aegis of its Centre for Flexible Learning and various day schools on local history topics.
Leicester
Lincoln
Liverpool
London Birkbeck
London Institute of Historical Research
London Kingston
Manchester
Newcastle
NE England History Institute
Nottingham
Oxford: Advanced Diploma in Local History via the Internet
Oxford: Undergraduate Diploma in English Local History
Reading
Roehampton: MA/PCDip in Historical Research

Other course providers:
WEA: this site has a database searchable by start date, course name or subject. You can also contact your nearest regional office, a list of which can be found at www.wea.org.uk/Contact/index.htm.

A number of WEA branches have provided local history courses in the past and some continue to do so. It is worth contacting them to see if they have any current courses or dayschools:
Barnets
Beckenham & West Wickham
Bexley
Birstall & Rothley
Bromley
Chingford
Croydon
Harrow
Helmdon
Hornchurch & Upminster
Ilford at Gant's Hill & Redbridge
Leicester
Muswell Hill
Northwood
Petts Wood & Orpington
Richmond
Sanderstead & Selsdon
Sidcup
Stanmore & Kenton
Sutton & Wallington
Twickenham & Hampton
Walthamstow
Wirksworth

College-on-the-Net is the collective name of a group of independent academic lecturers and specialist trainers who provide distance learning courses, including one on local history.

Wirral 3Ls is a not-for-profit charity which provides daytime courses and social activities mainly for over 50s.

The following residential colleges have local history courses from time to time:
Burton Manor Cheshire
Farncombe Estate Worcestershire
Higham Hall Cumbria
Knuston Hall Northamptonshire