Publications
| An annual publication Gloucestershire
History is produced with articles on various topics, a list of local
history books and articles in Gloucestershire published during the year
and a new feature listing projects being carried out by societies A local
history newsletter is also produced listing events and containing book reviews.
The A4 journal Gloucestershire History has been published annually
since 1987 and the contents of each issue are given below. Individuals who wish to submit articles to Gloucestershire History should write directly to the Editor, John Loosley, Stonehatch, Oakridge Lynch, Stroud, Glos GL6 7NR. |
| 1987 |
The
Builders of Gloucestershire Country Houses 1500-1830;
Gloucester Spa; The Purchase of Seat Places in Church
in 18th Century Minchinhampton; Walter Hadwen;
The National Agricultural Labourers’ Union in Gloucestershire
Part 1. |
| 1988 |
Dr. Henry
Charles Boisragon; Father Birdsall; The Selling of History,
Cheltenham in Change; The Great Road to London from Tewkesbury;
The Mystery of the Black Mound; Benjamin Parsons, a Gloucestershire
Rebel; The National Labourers' Union in Gloucestershire
Part II. |
| 1989 | Reverend
G.W. Green; Hengler's Circus and Gloucestershire; How the
Telephone came to Gloucester; Stroud Election Riots of 1834;
The Election to the First Gloucestershire County Council;
Frederick Griggs R.A. and Chipping Campden.
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| 1990 |
Special
Winter Edition:
The Development of an Urban Site 1455-1750, The Island
and Lower Part of Westgate Street; Seynckley – From Abbess
to Artist. |
| 1991 |
The Bisley
Path; To Serve the Watermen; First British School in Tewkesbury;
Samuel Baker of Gloucester; Ryan’s Royal Circus Visits
Cheltenham; The Beginning of the Cheltenham Dispensary. |
| 1992 |
An Old House
in Leonard Stanley; Maisemore and the River Severn; Bibury
Charities, Gloucestershire Cavaliers; The Dixton Paintings,
The Ludlows of Chipping Sodbury. |
| 1993 | The Cotswold
Yeoman; Gloucestershire Roundheads; Humpty Dumpty; The Shocking
Occurrence at Stroud Workhouse; Dursley Charities; Postal
Reforms and Gloucestershire Postal History. |
| 1994 |
Who was Doctor
Foster?; The Early Decades of the Cheltenham Dispensary;
Frowde the Proud – the Clown Evangelist; St Mary’s Home,
Painswick. |
| 1995 |
Hatherley
House; Apprenticeships of Children of the Poor; Gloucester
Street History Group, Winchcombe; Stone Built Sheepwashes
in Gloucestershire; The Dursley Saddlers. |
| 1996 | :Place Names
around Cheltenham; The early Manors of Longborough; A Ballad
Enigma; The casebook of Ralph Fletcher M.D.; Travelling
along the Trail (The development of a community-based art
project in the Stroud Valleys, Nailsworth).
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| 1997 |
An Old Cirencester
Chapel; The Champions of the Vale; Paupers and Officialdom;
St John’s Cheltenham, Early Years. |
| 1998 | The Story
of Trinity Mill Bagendon; Maisemore Court and the Families
who lived there Part 1; Quenington and Godwins; Superintendent
Thomas Basson 1836 - 1909, A Policeman and his Family; From
Westcote to New Zealand in the 1870s. |
| 1999 | The Battle
of the River Severn; Maisemore Court and the families who
lived there - Part II; John Pickard A Stroud Life, 1808-1841;
Children of the North Cotswolds: One Hundred Years ago;
The Election of Gloucestershire County Coroners 1800-1888
Part I.
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| 2000 | Cheltenham
Destroyed - An introduction to the lost buildings; Prosperity
Forgotten - A study of the Stroudwater mills, 1850 to 1871;
Nathaniel Dyer - A newly discovered bit of history; The
Election of Gloucestershire County Coroners 1800 - 1888,
Part II.
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| 2001 | Leisure Pursuits
of a nineteenth century Engineer; The Remnants of a Landscape
Park- Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire; A Political Problem
- Local Liberal candidates at the General Election of January
1910; The Lost Autobiography of James Henry Frowde; Local
History in Winchco |
| 2002 | Nineteenth
century Clock and Watchmakers in Southgate Street, Gloucester;
The Manorial Estates of Leckhampton; Unwillingly to Australia;
Gloucestershire County Council Sites and Monuments Record.
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| 2003 | Where did the
vicar of Winchcombe live before the Old Vicarage was built?;
The Reformation in Gloucestershire parishes; Renovation
of Pittville Pump Room and its reopening; Humphrey Brown
M.P., ship owner, silk manufacturer, mayor, M.P. and bankrupt.
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| 2004 | Crime in Gloucestershire
1805 to 1833; Cheltenham's Bandstands; Two Sixteenth Century
Gloucestershire Men; A Case of Poverty in late Victorian
Cheltenham; Barnwood House and Grounds.
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| 2005 | An 18th
century Squire; Gloucester and the 1904-5 Welsh Revival;
Queen Elizabeth I in Gloucestershire; Edwin Peckham (1887-1972)
– the Stroud Photographer.
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| 2006 | Early District
Nursing in Gloucestershire; 16th and 17th century Silver
made in Gloucestershire; Police and Crime in Gloucestershire
1834-1856; Dursley Emigrants to South Africa in 1820
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| 2007 | Early District
Gloucester’s Near Miss: The Crash of Vickers Varsity G-APAZ;
The Evolution of Gloucester’s Government AD 96-1835;
Mass Dials in Gloucestershire; Minsterworth:
Evidence of the Early History
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| 2008 | Early District
The oldest showman in England: Gloucestershire’s John Bellamy (1803-1893);
The state of Gloucestershire’s tenant farmers and their labourers in the Victorian years up to 1872;
Almshouses – a life of privilege: a comparison of almshouse life and poor relief in Chipping Campden;
Under water: flooding in Cheltenham 1731-1993
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Back copies of some issues are available from Naomi McMahon, GRCC, Community House, 15 College Green, Gloucester GL1 2LZ. A full set is kept at the Gloucestershire Archives. |