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Cambridgeshire LHS gives itself a makeover and a new name
It has become the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History and has a brand new website.

Smaller news items
including an archive of all of the Local Heritage Initiative's 1,400 projects.

Webwatch
Sites that we have found recently (20 October 2006)

Changing fortunes for Hull's local history
For 22 years Hull's Local History Centre has championed local history in the city. Now due to close because of lack of funding, Robert Howard investigates its sad demise.

Smaller news items
including Bradford's hidden local history.

Webwatch
Sites we have found recently (20 August 2006)

A salute to the Local Heritage Initiative
After just over six years and 1,000 plus awards, the LHI will officially end at the end of Septemer.

A magic lantern show finds a safe home in Wiltshire
How a 1909 photographic perambulation along the banks of the River Avon has been saved.

Smaller news items
Including a pioneer aviator, 18th century firefighters' uniforms and prehistoric trackways.

Webwatch
Sites we have found recently (23 June 06).

Travel the rainbow line and find a pot of gold
Travel the North London Line before it's too late.

Webwatch
Sites we have found recently (25 May 06).

Attacks continue on historic local rights
Up and down the country, historic parks and rights of way are threatened with closure.

A Change to Local History Month
Local History Month is moving from May to September this year.

Smaller news items
Including news of a new DVD about the Dig for Vistory campaign in World War II.

Between the covers
Welcome to a new take on local history from the pages of society newsletters and periodicals, when we hope to share a selection of snippets and seemingly less important stories.

Web Watch
Lists sites we have come across recently (28 April 06).

Local history heading for a meltdown?
Local history appears to be more popular than ever before, but a number of societies are in difficulties.

Smaller news items
Including early allotments in Wiltshire and changes to Local History Month.

Thumbs up for fingerposts
These well-known but little regarded landmarks are in need of some TLC.

Bristol's Inclusion Archivist
Bristol Record Office is actively seeking to include the city's minority communities in the scope of its collections.

Conservation 1930s style
An evocative photograph shows that the problems of conserving documents are nothing new.

Smaller news items
Including a new archives centre for Northumberland.

Web Watch
Lists sites we have come across recently (21 February 06).

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