Local history

Contact Drop in, phone or email the Local Studies & Archives team.

Events What’s on at Oldham Local Studies and Archives.

Family history Trace your family history at Local Studies & Archives.


Resources at Local Studies & Archives


Archive collections Search our Archive and Local Studies collections online.

Sources Parish registers, maps, census records and much more.

Books for sale Titles and prices of books available at Local Studies & Archives.


Research guides


Property and buildings history Sources of information for tracing the history of a building.

Education history Trace the history of education in Oldham.

Bardsley/Park Bridge Source guides for material relating to areas on the Oldham/Tameside border.


Donations, charges and Blue Plaques


Donate your archives You could have Oldham's history hidden in your attic...

Charges Photocopying, printing, research services etc.

Blue plaques Plaques around the borough commemorate historic events and people.


Remembrance


Rolls of remembrance View records of Oldham lives lost in past conflicts.

Oldham Remembers Events, images and stories commemorating the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War