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Winners of Volunteer Awards announced

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CILIP Local Studies Group are delighted to announce the winners of the Volunteer Awards (Under 25 and Over 25 categories). These are new awards, and we had a good range of nominees, which made the judging very difficult. The winners are:

Under 25 category

Jess Pascal, University of Leicester Library

Over 25 category

There are joint winners in this category: Anne Langley, Warwickshire County Record Office and Stella Robinson, Wakefield Libraires.

Congratulations to all our winners and to everyone who was nominated. An award ceremony will be arranged soon.

We are hoping to continue the awards next year, so if you have a volunteer who you would like to nominate again, or anyone who has volunteered during 2024, please check the blog for details later in the year.

Alan Ball winners 2023 announced

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CILIP Local Studies Group and the Library Services Trust are pleased to announce the winners of the Alan Ball Awards for the best local history publications that were published in 2023. Once again, we had a good number of high-quality publications that made judging very difficult. The winners are:

Hardcopy joint winners

Glasgow Life Museums, Scotland’s Lascar Heritage: Investigating the lives of South Asian Mariners (Glasgow Museums Publishing in Association with the Bangladesh Association Glasgow, 2023). Available here: https://shop.glasgowlife.org.uk/products/scotland-s-lascar-heritage-investigating-the-lives-of-south-asian-mariners

Paula Stevens, Lavenham House Histories (Self-Published, 2023). Available here: https://paula-stevens.sumupstore.com/

Hardcopy highly commended

Kevin Crangle, Ardglass and Dunsford County Down Biographies (Self-Published, 2023). Available here: https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com/shop/products/ardglass

Lancashire Archives, Archives: Lancashire History Magazine (issues 2 & 3, 2023). More information here: https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/archives-and-record-office/archives-magazine/

E-publication winner

Harlaxton History Society website 2023; www.harlaxtonhistory.co.uk

Community Project publication winner

Newport History Group, Lest We Forget: Poppy Project 2022 (Newport on Tay, Fife, 2023). Available here: https://www.newportontayhistory.org.uk/shop/Lest-We-Forget-p601784795

Congratulations to all the winners and to everyone who submitted their publications. An online presentation event will take place in July 2024.

Nominations are open for hard copy and e-publications published in 2024, closing date end of January 2025.