Welcome to the website of the Gloucestershire Local History Association.
Information on local history organisations in Gloucestershire, events, speakers and more, can be found by following the links on the side bar and the drop down menus above. Groups can find out about joining the Association here.
Booking now open for the GLHA Summer Afternoon to be held at Stonehouse on Sunday July 6th 2025.
Click here for programme and booking form
Book Review
Diaries of Sir George Dowty: Summaries and Extracts from the pocket diaries of Sir George Dowty, 1919-1975, edited by Caroline Flippance, who served as Secretary to Sir George Dowty, 1970-1975, and Martin Robins, who served in the Dowty Group Finance Office, 1973-1982, published 2025.
An updated version March 2025 of the GLHA Speakers List is now available.
Feedback on speakers is always welcomed. John Dixon from Tewkesbury has sent this report on two successful events at Tewkesbury Historical Society.
Winner of the Bryan Jerrard Award 2023
Chidlaw, Richard, ‘Dursley Clothiers and their Mills, 1450-1600’, The Dursley Lantern 19 (2022)
Click here to read the winning article.
This article was published in the Journal of the Dursley and Cam Society.
Find out more about the Society and their Journals which can be purchased via their website.
The Bryan Jerrard Award 2023 runner-up
Hare, Michael, ‘The Survival of the 17th-Century Chancel Fittings of St Mary’s Church, Deerhurst during the 19th and 20th Centuries’, Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 140 (2022)
Click here to read the article
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At the GLHA Forum in September 2024 we held a workshop to discuss how local history groups might work with schools. We have put together the advice gathered from the representatives attending and composed a Guidance document which may be accessed here. GLHA Guidelines on working with schools 2024