Today's #MapMonday shows the Quaker Monthly Meetings in York (highlighted in red) and neighbouring counties, by James Backhouse, 1773. Currently on display as part of our Quaker exhibition #ExploreYourArchive

Our latest blog looks at an event last June that we hope will kickstart a project about Leicester's Victorian terraced housing. We aim to run more events and apply for funding. In the meantime, this is the story so far: eastmidsoha.home.blog/2024/08/08/ter…

Well, some exciting news. The ebook version of my book is now available. Actual book due out in hard copy in September. With huge thanks to The London Archives Surrey History Centre National Justice Museum and The National Archives, on whose collections I worked! More here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Update from Thomas Pickles and Katherine Wilson on the HistoricTownsTrust Historical Map of Chester drafted by Hist&ArchChester students using Victoria County History Chester materials and data from Catherine Clarke and Keith Lilley 's Arts and Humanities Research Council Mapping Medieval Chester project! historictownstrust.uk/post/mapping-h…

Great to see Victoria County History research helping to shape this new Historical #Map of #Chester!

It's a Bank Holiday #MapMonday, so we're showing cheerful detail from a plan of #Harlsey 1762, featuring the village and church #ExploreYourArchive

Great to be reminded by Jonathan Calder of this blog from one of our General Editors, Adam Chapman about the world of the post-war small farm, as seen through the eyes of a Ladybird Book illustrator, Ronald Lampitt. #LocalHistory #TractorCommentary

Many congratulations to Bill, incidentally a trustee of VCH_Cumbria.

Many congratulations to VCH Oxfordshire, this is a fantastic volume & we’re very much looking forward to the launch in October!

Our most active project right now is on Newport. Wendy has recently completed an account of the fabric of Newport parish church and the Catholic church of St Peter and St Paul. Richard has completed the account of the Royal Victoria Hotel. Keep an eye on our website for these!

Exciting day at Victoria County History central office as we prepare to send ALL #VCH #RedBook Volume 1s to be photographed as part of our VCH digitisation project. We’re really looking forward to all their content being freely & easily available on British History Online

Many Victoria County History volumes are already available to read on British History Online, but with the support of the Marc Fitch Fund & Institute of Historical Research we are currently digitising many more. Including the (largely) early 20th C Vol. 1s, full of info re. #naturalhistory #archaeology #geology #domesday

New (draft) text from Wiltshire History - VCH towards their next #BigRedBook on #Chippenham. Read the latest drafts on this substantial market town and its hinterland on our website, here: history.ac.uk/research/victo…

I have been working on this volume since 2018. It is now almost done. Very proud of it. The work has taught me so much.

It's 1844, you live in a small village in rural Leics and the church needs restoring. What do you do? Bring in Pugin of course! Free event.

The great flood of 1607 brought death & destruction to villages & communities occupying low-lying land near the Bristol Channel & Severn Estuary. Was your #OnePlaceStudy or an ancestral place affected by this or other flood events? #OnePlaceWater is our September blogging prompt.

The latest *draft* text from VCH_Somerset concerns Taunton, the county town, centre of an enormous medieval estate belonging to the Bishops of Winchester It is available for comment, correction and research purposes. history.ac.uk/research/victo…

The latest draft text from Victoria County History is for Taunton, county town of Somerset. We welcome all input from any interested parties. And yes. I did chose that particular way of showing Taunton's churches, how did you know?

One of our General Editors, Ruth Slatter is on the road, contributing to this excellent event which speaks to what we've been doing for 125 years: place-based history.

The latest material from our colleagues Victoria County History, from England's south west: