Comments by Alan Crosby, Editor of The Local Historian, about the British Association for Local History’s Publication Awards 2024:
“A lot of really good work is done locally but it never sees any national coverage, it’s never given a wider exposure. This is one way of drawing attention to the fact that local journals have a great deal of value in them.”
Louise Keil won third place in the long articles section with her Henry Lane & Son of Berkhamsted 1798-1945 in The Chronicle, vol.XX, Mar 2023.
Alan continues: “It appeared in The Chronicle which is the journal of the Berkhamsted Local History & Museum Society. The Chronicle is a fairly modest publication, it’s not big and glossy, it’s fairly modest and it has a relatively low budget for a small Society but it produces good work and this is an example of that“.
He goes on to describe Louise’s article about the family that ran our local nursery, an activity that is almost forgotten now but showing how significant it was when it was flourishing.
Berkhamsted Local History & Museum Society 