Warwickshire History
The Journal of the Warwickshire Local History Society
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Volume XIX, Number 1 Summer 2023 Two 'Lost' Charters from Twelfth-Century Warwickshire RICHARD DACE Another Look at William Smith's c.1576 Sketch of Coventry DAVID SHEPPARD Who was Herbert Wilson? A personal memoir EDWARD REID-SMITH Accessions to Local Record Offices in 2022 |
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Volume XVIII, Number 6 Winter 2022/2023 The Shrine of Saint Edith of Polesworth, Warwickshire, and the Pilgrim Way MARGARET HENLEY The Medieval Deer Parks of Warwickshire, c. 1120-1530 : a gazetteer JANE CROOM From riches to rags : how did the Lord Leycester Hospital become poor? MARIANNE PITTS A List of the Publications on the History of Warwickshire Published 2021 to 2022 |
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Volume XVIII, Number 5 Summer 2022 Richard the Kentishman: a twelfth-century Burgess of Warwick revisited RICHARD DACE Alderman Thomas Kemp (1848 - 1924) Warwick’s Borough Historian: Publications, Societies and the Warwick Pageant JEFF WATKIN Coventry’s Park Gardens: nineteenth-century Detached Town Gardens ROSEMARY S HALL Accessions to Local Record Offices in 2021 |
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Volume XVIII, Number 4 Winter 2021/22 J. O. Haliwell-Phillipps, Charles Edward Flower and the Shakespeare Autotypes Controversy SANDRA MACDONALD Birmingham Banks - George Linnaeus Banks J. P. LETHBRIDGE Alderman Thomas Kemp (1848 - 1924) Warwick's Borough Historian: Family Background and Public Service JEFF WATKIN List of Publications on the History of Warwickshire Published in 2021 with Addenda for 2020 R. J. CHAMBERLAINE-BROTHERS |
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Volume XVIII, Number 3 Summer 2021 The 'Bawdy Court' of Stratford-upon-Avon ROBERT BEARMAN Lies, Damn Lies, and the eighteenth-century Coventry Ribbon Industry DAVID FRY Carry us away ... Migration to Brazil - Warwickshire Agricultural Labourers 1872 MICHAEL LUNTLEY Accessions to Local Record Offices in 2020
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Volume XVIII, Number 2 Winter 2020/21 Alice Digby's will and the origins of Coleshill Grammar School, 1520-1613 KIRSTEEN HARVEY AND ANDREW WATKINS A Little Wonder of the World in Terraces & Villas: the speculative development of the Beauchamp Square estate in Leamington Spa, 1825-52 JANE CROOM Paradise Lost? Primitive Methodism in Warwaickshire 1819-1945 ANNE LANGLEY List of Publications on the History of Warwickshire Published in 2020 With Adddenda for 2019 R.J. CHAMBERLAINE-BROTHERS |
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Volume XVIII Number 1 Summer 2020 Mr Greville's Grand Tour, 1685-1687 ADAM BUSIAKIEWICZ Sir Roger Newdigate - an eighteenth-century Philanthropist at work? HELEN McGRATH Birmingham Conscription Tribunals 1916 J.P. LETHBRIDGE Accessions to Local Record Offices in 2019 |
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Volume XVII, Number 6 Winter 2019/20 The Rise of Religious Nonconformity in Polesworth, 1800-60 MARGARET HENLEY Commemorating the Great War in Warwickshire: Napton-on-the-Hill, 1919 CHRISTINE WISKIN The Proposed Relocation of Parliament to Stratford-upon-Avon during World War Two PHILIP SPINKS List of Publications on the History of Warwickshire Published in 2018 With Adddenda for 2017 R.J. CHAMBERLAINE-BROTHERS |
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Volume XVII, Number 5 Summer 2019 No.5 Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon - and issues of eighteenth-century marriage and inheritance ROBERT BEARMAN The Speculative Development of the Parade, Royal Leamington Spa, c. 1808 - c. 1838 JANE CROOM The Early Years of a Coventry Housing Estate: Stoke Heath, 1915-1919 JOHN JEFFS Accessions to Local Record Offices in 2018 |
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Volume XVII, Number 4 Winter 2018/19 Bablake Hospital: The Development of a Poor Relief Scheme in Coventry, 1560-1640 JOHN CHESTER Leamington Art Gallery and Museum, 1945-1999: 'an exemplary institution' or 'the Cinderella of the Council'? JEFF WATKIN Celebrating Peace in Warwickshire, 1814 CHRISTINE WISKIN List of Publications on the History of Warwickshire Published in 2018 with Addenda for 2017 R.J. CHAMBERLAINE-BROTHERS |
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Volume XVII, Number 3 Summer 2018 A socio-economic profile of Anglican clergy in mid-nineteenth century Warwickshire F. KEITH GEARY Frederick George Savage, postman, botanist and socialist PHILIP SPINKS The Stratford-upon-Avon to Long Compton Turnpike and its cast-iron mileposts ROBERT CALDICOTT |
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Volume XVII, Number 2 Winter 2017/18 The Origins of Warwick: Town and Settlement STEVEN WALLSGROVE The Archdeacon and his Staff at Work: An Example from Twelfth-Century Warwickshire RICHARD DACE 'By a True Account of Things to Undeceive the Abused': Ralph Hope, Coventry's Government Correspondent, 1666 to 1672 STEWART FERGUSSON |
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Volume XVII, Number 1 Summer 2017 Building Estate Development in Mid-Victorian Coventry: The Role of Freehold Land Societies DAVID FRY Mr Newdegate and the Schools: Landed Influence and Elementary Education in the Victorian Period DAVID PATERSON Setting an Example: Marie Corelli and Food Hoarding in WWI J.P. LETHBRIDGE |
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Volume XVI, Number 6 Winter 2016/17 Balancing Life and Faith: Warwickshire Chantry Clergy, Careers and the Dissolution of 1548 Stratford-upon-Avon’s Fire of 1614 Thomas Hall's Reminiscences of an Old Farnborough Boy between about 1822 and 1832
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Volume XVI, Number 5 Summer 2016 Editor Coventry Womens’ Contribution to Public Life in Early-Modern Coventry Bowling Along for 200 Years: The Halford Bowls Club and its Archives Lord Willoughby de Broke and his Kineton Landing Ground
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Volume XVI, Number 4, Winter 2015/16Warwickshire Local History Society Celebrates Fifty Successful Years ‘A convenient habitation fit for Christians to dwell in’: Parish Housing for the Poor in Seventeenth-Century Rural Warwickshire ANGELA NICHOLLS The ‘Captain of Oliver’s Army’ and the Wixford Catholics: Clerical/Lay Conflict in South Warwickshire, 1640-1674 MAUREEN HARRIS
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Volume XVI, Number 3 'Budbrooke: its Medieval Landscape', STEVEN WALLSGROVE 'Norman Late-comers: the Butler Family of Oversley', DAVID CROUCH 'The Boarding out of Pauper Children in Warwickshire, 1869-1900', ROSEMARY S. HALL |
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Volume XVI, Number 2 'Humphrey Rydell and the Swan at Coleshill: a Sixteenth-century Small-town Innkeeper and his Inn', ANDREW WATKINS 'Stratford-upon-Avon's First Guide-books', ROGER PRINGLE 'Nineteenth-century Slums in Leamington Spa and the introduction of Publlic Health Reforms', COLIN A. MAYNELL |
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Volume XVI, Number 1 'Twelfth-Century Hermitages in the Arden', RICHARD DACE 'John Whittingham: Coventry Nurseryman, Diarist, Catholic Apologist and Political activist', RUTH BARBOUR '"Advice and Medicine for the Working Classes": The Leamington and Warwick Provident Dispensaries, 1869-1913', JOHN WILMOT |
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Volume XV, Number 6 'A Landscape for Pleasure: Fulbrook, Warwickshire and John Duke of Bedford in the Fifteenth Century', CHRISTOPHER DYER 'Saltley Reformatory: Its Origin and Growth in Victorian Birmingham', DAN WALE 'The Mysterious Origins of Aston Villa Football Club, TREVOR FISHER Cover Image: Norton Training School, 1936 |
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Volume XV, Number 5 ''My Trust to be saved': Religious Change in North-East Warwickshire through Testamentary Evidence', VIVIEN WELLER 'Warwickshire Links to the London Virginia Company', BOB GIBSON ''An Eligible Spot for Building': the Suburban Development of Greatheed Land in New Milverton, 1824 - c. 1900', JANE N. CROOM Cover image: Oak chest donated to St Mary's Church, Warwick, by Thomas Oken |
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Volume XV, Number 4 'The Dabridgecourts of Knowle: a Monumental 'Translation'?', ANTHONY A. UPTON 'A Push From the Centre: the Nineteenth-Century Transformation of Warwickshire Grammar Schools', DAVID PATERSON 'A Visit to Moreton Morrell Manor House', NORMA HAMPSON Cover image: Moreton Morrell Manor House in 1935 |
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'Was Bidford-on-Avon a Town in the Middle Ages?', CHRISTOPHER DYER 'Grimsby Fishing Apprenticeships and the Warwickshire Poor Law Unions, 1880-1900', ROSEMARY S. HALL 'George Matthews Bennett Senior, Bone-setter: an Addendum', PHILIP SPINKS Cover Image: The Majestic, a Grimsby trawler
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Volume XV, Number 2 'Warwick Court House', CHRISTINE HODGETTS & MARK BOOTH 'Thomas Burbury and the 1831 Weavers' Riots in Coventry', MARGARET HOBLEY 'Jingoism in action: the Stratford-upon-Avon Ladysmith Riots', PHILIP SPINKS 'The Ladbroke Riots: a postscript', PENELOPE UPTON Cover image: Warwick Court House, the Ballroom |
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Volume XV, Number 1 'Rioting and Popular Ridicule in Ladbroke in the Early Seventeenth Century', PENELOPE UPTON 'The Alcester Waterworks Company', CYRIL JOHNSON 'Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx in Stratford-upon-Avon', NICHOLAS FOGG Cover image: The waterwheel at the site of the Arrow pumping station |
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