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The Victoria History of the Counties of England project begun in 1899 in honour of Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.

The Scottish novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg, a dark study of criminal psychology and religious fanaticism, is essentially structured in all respects as a local history publication of the kind fashionable in Scotland in Hogg's lifetime.


Georg Quedens

Georg Quedens (born 1934 in Norddorf) is a German photographer and non-fiction writer as well as a local and natural historian.

Havneparken

The quayside still features the disused railway tracks and an old railway car contains an exhibition on the local history of the neighbourhood, rusty steel profiles have been left and now serves as pergolas, upon which Honeysuckle and Clematis are trained and bits of wall from now demolished buildings have been left.

Norwegian Year of Cultural Heritage 2009

The many activities in support of the Year included exhibitions, cultural tours, school projects and, especially at the local level, incentives for the creation of a wide variety of Wikipedia articles on local history and culture.

The Chariton Collector

The Chariton Collector was a local history and folklore magazine published biannually between 1980 and 1989 by students at Kirksville High School, Kirksville, Missouri.


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2NBC

In 2008 the City of Hurstville and 2NBC teamed up to record The Tales from Dragonhurst, a local history radio drama.

Abertay Historical Society

Since 1953 the Society has published books on local history, the first of which was Dundee and the American Civil War by David Carrie.

The AHS was set up with the goal of encouraging the study of local history in the Abertay area (Perthshire, Angus and northern Fife).

Arch Merrill

His 1943 A River Ramble is an account of his walk of the entire length of the Genesee River, along with his notes on local history, folk tales, and people he met along the route.

Canter Brown, Jr.

Brown has written on Florida and southern United States history, including Florida's Peace River Frontier (Orlando, 1991, earning him the Florida Historical Society's Rembert W. Patrick Award, and Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor (Baton Rouge, 1997), winner of the Certificate of Commendation of the American Association of State and Local History.

Canterbury Cathedral

It is rich in church history, older theology, British history (including local history), travel, science and medicine, and the anti-slavery movement.

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities

The building is also home to Edmund de Waal's first piece of public sculpture, A Local History, a commission of three vitrines filled with porcelain and sunk into the pavement outside the building.

Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville

In 1811 he moved to Valognes (Manche), pursuing botanical field research and the nascent field of geology, and searching out ancient written materials that cast light on local history, while he undertook, from 1814 onwards, to compile a pioneering inventory of some four or five hundred churches of La Manche (Noell 2005); some of these materials were published as Voyage archéologique dans la Manche (1818–1820).

Delaware City, Delaware

The Diamond State Base Ball Club is a non-profit amateur organization created for the purposes of providing physical fitness to its members, educating the public on the history of baseball and local history, and serving as a point of public pride.

Ed Salamon

Salamon’s first book ‘’Pittsburgh’s Golden Age of Radio’’, was published in 2010 by Arcadia Publishing, a leading publisher of local history books in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

Forge Mill Needle Museum

Site tours of National Needle Museum, Forge Mill and the neighbouring Bordesley Abbey can be arranged via the Redditch Local History Society.

Gardiners Creek Trail

A pedestrian crossing passes over the road, and after crossing the creek on the road bridge the path continues north through Local History Park in Burwood to the intersection of McIntyre Street, Elgar Road, and Burwood Highway, near Presbyterian Ladies' College and the Burwood Campus of Deakin University.

Guavaween

Referencing this local history in the 1970s, local newspaper columnist Steve Otto planted the idea that if New York City is the "Big Apple", then Tampa must be the "Big Guava".

Jan Lužný

After his retirement, he was amateur historian and publicized also many articles about local history of Čechůvky.

Les Bursill

In August 2008, Bursill became the founding editor of a new journal of local history, art and natural history named Doryanthes (after the genus of the Gymea Lily, endemic to the Sutherland Shire and Illawarra).

Lyme Regis Museum

An ornate example of Coade stone work, in the form of ammonites is set into the pavement outside the museum, reflecting both local history (specifically Eleanor Coade, the inventor of Coade stone) and the palaeontology for which Lyme Regis is well-known.

Mike Cottingham

His ancestor arrived in the area during the 17th century, sent by one of the Stuart kings concerned about the dwlindling timber supply from Ireland. Some of his work was later published in local journals and local history books.

Mobile Public Library

The Local History and Genealogy Division includes works by local authors, Mobile histories, periodicals, Mobile newspapers on microfilm from 1819 to the present, city directories from 1837 onward, federal census records for most of the Southeastern United States, and the Mobile Historic Development Commission's survey of historic architecture in Mobile with 10,000 images stored and indexed on CD-ROM.

Mönchgut

One main attraction is the local history museum in Göhren, an open-air museum located on historical settlements.

Nymindegab Museum

Nymindegab Museum is a local history and art museum located in Nymindegab in Varde Municipality, Denmark.

Poor Things

The introduction also hosts a critique of Glasgow City Council's treatment of its culture and heritage in the neglect of the local history museum, and a brief mention of Glasgow's time as the European Capital of Culture in 1990, which would be the subject of a more sustained satire in his novel Something Leather.

Rüti Abbey

The Amthaus (Bailiff's house) was rebuilt in 1706 and serves as library, Kindergarten, as a museum of local history and site of the archives of the municipality of Rüti.

Sultanhanı

Another milestone in local history was the Battle of Sultanhanı (also called the Battle of Aksaray) in 1256, where a Mongol army under the command of Baiju defeated the Seljuks.

Tring Museum

Tring Local History Museum, the local history museum in the town which opened in 2010.

Vallco Shopping Mall

In its first years, the mall's main walkway was punctuated by several parks showcasing aspects of local history, ranging from apricots to Klystron tubes.

Waterfront Geelong

The Baywalk Bollards were created by local artist Jan Mitchell in the mid-1990s, with the timber painted sculptures reflecting local history and identities.

Yates County Genealogical and Historical Society

Caroline Underwood Museum with historic decorative arts items and displays of local history, and the adjacent Scherer Carriage House that features exhibits about local evangelist Jemima Wilkinson.

Yelverton Inn and Store

But they have also been the scene of some important events in local history, and were visited by Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and George Washington at different times.

YMCA Camp Tecumseh

Jack Fisher, an 11-year-old from Battle Ground, Indiana submitted "Camp Tecumseh," a name closely associated with the local history, which includes the Battle of Tippecanoe.

Zoeth Skinner Eldredge

He appears to have self-published at least two books on the local history of San Francisco, California.