Gloucestershire Local History Association – Information for Groups and the Public

Welcome to the website of the Gloucestershire Local History Association.

Information on local history organisations in Gloucestershire, events, speakers and more, can be found by following the links on the side bar and the drop down menus above. Groups can find out about joining the Association here.

GLHA Speakers List August 28th 2025
Feedback on speakers is always welcomed.

Click here for the latest GLHA Member Societies’ Events List – September 2025

The Bryan Jerrard Award
The winner and runner-up for the 2024 Award was announced at the Gloucestershire Local History Association’s Forum in the Dunrossil Room at The Heritage Hub in Gloucester on Monday 8 September 2025.

The winner of the 2024 Award was:
Carter, Steven, ‘Coleford’s Jovial Foresters’, The New Regard 39 (2024).
A link to this article will appear here soon
Find out more about the Forest of Dean Local History Society

and the runner-up was:
Moore-Scott, Terry, ‘The Manor, Hamlet and Tithing of Broadwell in Leckhampton’, Leckhampton Local History Society Research Bulletin 6 (2024)
Click here to read the article
Find out more about Leckhampton Local History Society
Former winners of the Award can be found here

GLHA Summer Afternoon held at Stonehouse on July 6th
Meeting Report

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