Please find below reviews of publications relevant to Gloucestershire Local History.

Many of them have been produced by GLHA member groups. If your group has recently produced a publication that you would like reviewed contact either the Chair chair@gloshistory.org.uk or the website managers webmaster@gloshistory.org.uk

If you would be prepared to review a local history publication for us please contact us.

February 2025
Elder, David, Secret Stroud, Amberley Publishing, 2024, £15.99

February 2025
Dobell, Clarence M., Memoirs of Old Charlton Kings – a series of short papers written for the Charlton Kings Parish Magazine, 1896, originally printed by Norman, Sawyer and Co. in 1898. Reprinted by the Charlton Kings Local and Family History Society, 2025. 56 pages, A5, obtainable from Charlton Kings Local and family History Society £8.50 + £3.00 p&p

February 2025
Peart-Binns, J.S., The Cure of Souls – A Great Parish Priest.  Charlton Kings Local and Family History Society.  Not dated.  (£10 (+ £3 p and p) A biography about Robert Deakin, Vicar of St Mary’s, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham between 1949 to 1973.

February 2025
Stevens, Pauline, Ebley, Stroud – Cider Factories, Inns, Laundries, an Orphanage and an Anglo-French Ladies’ College, Stroud Local History Society, 2025, £12 Booze, bricks, books and more – a review by Will Foster

December 2024
White, Martin, The Cotswold Boy: From The Coronation To ‘A Hard Day’s Night’: A Childhood In The 50s And 60s, Published by APS Books Yorkshire, 2024, 194pp including 10pp of b&w illustrations. Paperback, £10.99 (Amazon)

January 2024
Hilltop & Valley: Stories from Chalford Parish & Eastcombe
Members of the Chalford Parish Local History Group, edited by Camilla Boon, Hilary Burgess, Roger Carnt and Peter Drover, pub. Chalford Parish Local History Group (2023), 376pp, many b/w. ill.  Paperback, £10.00.

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