Nominations open for the Alan Ball Award 2018

Nomination are still open for the Alan Ball Award for Local History publishing.

The award is open to all heritage and community organisations involved with some aspect of local history, and who have received public funding for the publication. Public funding includes lottery funding, e.g. Heritage Lottery Fund and Awards for All. In addition to local authority libraries, archives, museum and archaeology services, we welcome submissions from small local museums, heritage centres and community history projects. The publication needs to have appeared between July 2017 and June 2018.

We have two categories:

• Book publication
• E-publication.

One winner will be picked in each category.

Nominations close on the 30th November. To submit your nominations, please download and return the form

Want some inspiration? Read about the 2017 winners and runners up.