BALH Conference: Maps and Buildings
Saturday 12th October 2024, 10:00am – 4:00pm.
St Andrew’s Church Hall, Kingston Road, Taunton, TA2 7SB
£20 (BALH members) £25 (non-members), includes refreshments and lunch.
The conference will include five presentations and lunch included in the ticket price.
The speakers and topics are:
- Joseph Rogers – Tithe barns and their imposters
- Lucy Browne – A map and a manor: a window on a 17th century Devon village
- Jane Golding – Know your landscape: understanding buildings in their landscape context using local and national historic environment records and collections
- John Chandler – Maps: the key to uncovering history
- Julian Orbach – Strange and unusual buildings in Somerset
Joseph Rogers is the author of ‘Tithe Barns’ and ‘Railway Enthusiasm in Twenty-first-century Britain’. His research on ‘Tithe Barns’ saw him travel to 100+ historic barns across the UK, from East Lothian to Cornwall, Gwynedd to Kent and everywhere in between. He was inspired to learn more about the subject by the many examples found in Somerset.
Lucy Browne is a qualified genealogist based in north-west Devon, with a degree in History from the University of Wales (Lampeter) and a Diploma in Genealogy from the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS). She has worked professionally as a freelance genealogist and documentary researcher since 2015, and tutor for the IHGS since 2017, and is a Council member of the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives.
Jane Golding is a Trustee and Vice-Chair of the British Association for Local History. Her academic background is in landscape history, and she manages Historic England’s Heritage Gateway.
John Chandler is a Trustee and Chair of the Publishing Committee of the British Association for Local History. After working as a librarian, his freelance career has included writing, editing, lecturing, and historical research. He is a VCH editor and contributor in Gloucester and Wiltshire, a visiting research fellow at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and publishes west country regional and social history as Hobnob Press.
Julian Orbach is an author and lecturer in architectural history. He was architectural adviser to the Victorian Society in 1975-7 and has contributed to five volumes of the Pevsner series; Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire/Ceredigion, and Gwynedd in Wales, and most recently Somerset South and West, 2014, and Wiltshire 2021. He has been President of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society.
Booking is open until Thursday 10th October at 10am.
Tickets are £20 for BALH members and £25 for non-members, this includes refreshments and lunch.
A small number of free tables are also available for organisations and societies, please contact outreach@balh.org.uk if interested.
