Welcome to the Local History Wiki
A place to publish your local history. For example,
Host your local history here
Researching the history of your property or neighbourhood? Here's a place where you can share your work, and collaborate if you wish to.
What is welcome here:
Articles covering topics in the following fields:
- Details of archives, record offices and similar organisations - though the Archives wiki may be more appropriate.
- Local government - structure, administrative bodies and members thereof etc.
- How to research particular types of local history, topical history, and microhistory.
- Reference materials of various kinds (and relevant websites) - in print, born digital and other.
- Lists of local history and similar societies, wikis, etc, covering a particular area, country, field of interest or time period, with links to relevant websites. If it is relevant, but not yet described here - add it.
- Developing chronologies and other materials, such as Timeline of government archives.
- Particular lines of research - or a brief overview with a link to a website with more detail.
- Particular types of research projects (eg Scrapbooks and local history)
- Lists as appropriate.
Anything else that can be reasonably defined as 'history in the small scale but not purely genealogical.'
If appropriate a brief description with links (and categories) will suffice.
Original Research (as defined by Wikipedia) and other created materials are allowed - but may be subject to the usual collaborative involvement.
Cooperation/coordination with other relevant wikis is welcome.
See also
- Local History coverage
- Types of local history
- Creating articles
- List of things to be done
- Conventions adopted in this wiki
- Local history activities
- Timeline of government archives
- Timeline of libraries
- Timeline of local history societies
- Timeline of non-government archives
- Timeline of other organisations
Links to other wikis and websites which fall within the remit of this wiki are welcome.
Hub pages
- City Wikis
- The timeline pages above.
Current activities
- Creating listings of the various pages by country.
Rules for the Wiki
The standard rules of engagement here apply: contributions should also be relevant to the wiki.