Devon Parish Taxpayers
February 17, 2023
Why did sixteenth-century Dartmouth have wards named after every day of the week except Saturday? And was this bureaucracy independent of taxation or did it run alongside it? These were… READ MORE
Category: British Local History
Changing Approaches to Local History
January 13, 2023
Local history has a reputation for being narrow-minded and descriptive. Local historian are seen as amateurish, obsessed by detail, and offering simple explanations of the past. Some local history deserves… READ MORE
The Marlborough Mound in its garden setting
October 7, 2022
In 1548, the castle was granted to Edward duke of Somerset, Protector of the young Edward VI. He was executed in 1552, but his heirs retained the estates, and it… READ MORE
The Marlborough Mound and its missing castle
September 28, 2022
Within months of the Battle of Hastings, the Norman armies came to Marlborough, and – though we have no positive physical evidence to prove this, they created a rough fortification… READ MORE
The Marlborough Mound – a major new prehistoric monument
September 6, 2022
Marlborough Mound is one of the least visible of the great monuments of England, and almost unknown except to local historians and specialists. It stands in the middle of Marlborough… READ MORE
Victoria County History of Oxfordshire: The South Oxfordshire Chilterns: Caversham, Goring, and Area
March 24, 2022
The Victoria County History (VCH) is well known for its detailed studies of individual localities, which assemble (in the words of one recent reviewer) ‘countless tiny parts to build a… READ MORE
James Davidson
February 24, 2022
New from the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, James Davidson’s East Devon Church Notes, edited by Jill Cobley, sheds light on the history of East Devon’s churches from the Middle… READ MORE
The London Record Society
September 8, 2021
The London Record Society is a charity founded in 1964 to stimulate interest in archives relating to London. With the publication of their latest title The London Jubilee Book, 1376-1387… READ MORE
The Country Houses of Shropshire
June 1, 2021
We are thrilled that The Country Houses of Shropshire is published today. With 119 colour and 574 black and white illustrations, it’s a gazetteer of the many fine Shropshire country… READ MORE
The Companion Guide to London New Edition
February 19, 2021
Has strong claims to be among the best guidebooks ever written. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH It is surely remarkable to write of a guidebook that is difficult to put down. But it… READ MORE
The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe, 1800-1840