County-wide organisations
District-wide organisations
Town or parish based organisations
Selected links to other websites
Local History Courses

Note: Clicking on the links below will take you directly to a group’s web site.

County-wide organisations

Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club
Gloucestershire Archaeology
Friends of Gloucestershire Archives
Gloucestershire Archives
Gloucestershire Building Recording Group
Gloucestershire County History Trust
Gloucestershire Family History Society
Gloucestershire Gardens & Landscape Trust
Gloucestershire Local History Association
Gloucestershire Police Archives
Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology
Historical Association: Gloucestershire Branch
Workers Educational Association

District-wide organisations  

The Forest of Dean Buildings Preservation Trust
Forest of Dean Family History Trust
Forest of Dean Local History Society
Friends of the Gloucester Waterways Museum
Stroudwater Navigation Archives Charity
Stroudwater Textile Trust

Town or parish based organisations

Berkeley Local History Society
Birdlip History Society
Bisley Local History Society
Blockley Heritage Society
Bourton on the Water Local History Society
Brockweir & Hewelsfield Local History Society
Chipping Campden History Society
Chalford Parish Local History Group
Charlton Kings Local History Society
Chedworth Society
Cheltenham Local History Society
Churchdown Local History Society
Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society
Cranham Local History Society
Dursley & Cam Society
English Bicknor History Group
Fairford History Society
Friends of Glendower
Friends of Purton
Gloucester Local History Society
Gotherington and District Local History Society
Hartpury Heritage Trust
Highnam Heritage
Lechlade Historical Society
Leckhampton Local History Society
Maisemore Local History Society
The Mickleton Society
Moreton in Marsh & District Local History Society
Nailsworth Society Local History Research Group
Newent Local History Society
Newnham Historical Research Group
Northleach Historical Society
North Nibley Historical Group
Norton & The Leigh Local History Society
Oakridge History Group
Oxenhall Parish History Group
Painswick Local History Society
Prestbury Local History Society
Randwick Historical Association
The Rissingtons Local History Society
St Briavels History Group
Sheepscombe History Society
Slimbridge Local History Society
Somerford Keynes Parish History Group
Stinchcombe History Society
Stonehouse History Group
Stow and District Civic Society
Stroud Local History Society
Swindon Village Society Local History Group
History of Tetbury Society
Tewkesbury Historical Society
Tibberton Local History Group
Tidenham Historical Group
Uley Society
Upper Windrush
Upton St Leonards Local History Group
Winchcombe History Group
Winchcombe: Gloucester Street History Group
Woodchester Historical Society
Woolaston Village History Group
Wotton under Edge Historical Society

Selected links to other websites

Avon Local History and Archaeology
British Association for Local History
British Library
The Council for British Archaeology
English Heritage
Historic England
The Institute of Historical Research
The National Archives
Historical Manuscripts Commission – The National Archives
Street Map

Local History Courses

University of Birmingham  (History)
University of Bristol   (History)
University of Gloucestershire   (History)
University of Oxford   (Continuing Education)
University of the West of England: Regional History Centre