All About That Place 2024
Put Your Ancestors in Their Place!
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All About That Place is back! Join the family and local history virtual event of the year, taking place from Friday 27th September to Sunday 6th October 2024.
Last year we helped participants to start One-Place studies. This year we will be helping them to 'put their ancestors in their place', both in terms of location and context.
Piloting in 2023, the event hit social media with a bang and creating an immediate buzz. It garnered large audiences, with 28,900 video views on YouTube alone and 600,000 impressions! 718 people subscribed to the YouTube Channel, 1,878 individuals joined the pop-up Facebook Group and 1,450 individuals joined SoG’s email mailing list to follow daily updates on the event.
But I missed 2023...what exactly is All About That Place.
It's a virtual event broadcast over social media, consisting of very short (c.10 minute talks) on a plethora of subjects and supported by an interactive workbook of tasks and activities. Open to all members of the public, All About That Place is more than just a conference, it's a community and our Speakers are an integral part of it.
Calling All Speakers!
Could you give a 10-minute pre-recorded or live talk? Open to all ideas, from your research on a particular person or place, to your top tips for tech, to social history, to archive explorations, to ways of sharing your findings.
Talks will be scheduled at set times for delivery onto our YouTube channel, promoted across all our social media channels, and loaded into a popup Facebook Group.
Payment of £30 per talk is available on request.
Speakers are welcome to include information about their services, websites etc within the talk and to interact with the event's Facebook Group audience.
Each day of the event will be focused on a theme, with these being:
- Introduction
- Health and Medicine
- Military and War
- Leisure and Entertainment
- Town and Country
- Innovation
- Politics and Rights
- Collections and Archives
- Tools
- Sharing Your Findings
Please register using the form at the top of the page. We'll send you more details and information about how to submit your talk ideas. Everyone is welcome, no matter what your experience level.
