Between 1987 and 2011, the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council’s Local History Committee published an annual journal, ‘Gloucestershire History’, containing a range of articles on the history of the County. ‘Gloucestershire History’ replaced the existing ‘Local History Bulletin’, which the Committee had published for many years.
With the winding up of the Local History Committee, publication of ‘Gloucestershire History’ ceased, and the GLHA has no plans to produce a comparable publication – although that remains a possibility at some future date.
A list of the articles published in all 25 issues of ‘Gloucestershire History’ is given below. Each article may be downloaded as a fully ‘text searchable’ PDF document by clicking on the page numbers shown in the relevant entry.
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No. 1 (1987) return to top
The Builders of Gloucestershire Country Houses 1500-1830 by Nicholas Kingsley 2-5
Gloucester Spa by Barbara Drake 6-8
The Purchase of Seat Places in Church in 18th Century Minchinhampton by A C Turk 9-10
Walter Hadwen by Walter Hawkins 10
The National Agricultural Labourers’ Union in Gloucestershire Part 1 by Nigel Scotland 12-16
No. 2 (1988) return to top
Dr. Henry Charles Boisragon by A Bruce Wallace 2-4
Father Birdsall by Richard Barton 5-7
The Selling of History, Cheltenham in Change by Harry Cowen 8-11
The Great Road to London from Tewkesbury by Anthony Dale 10-11
The Mystery of the Black Mound by Christopher Cox 12-13
Benjamin Parsons, a Gloucestershire Rebel by Leslie Wollen 13-14
The National Labourers’ Union in Gloucestershire Part II by Nigel Scotland 16-20
No. 3 (1989) return to top
Reverend G.W. Green by Allan Baddeley 2-3
Hengler’s Circus and Gloucestershire by John M Turner 4-5
How the Telephone came to Gloucester by Arthur Dodd 6-7
Stroud Election Riots of 1834 by Philip Walmsley 8-9
The Election to the First Gloucestershire County Council by Bryan Jerrard 9-11
Frederick Griggs R.A. and Chipping Campden. by Geoffrey Powell 11-15
No. 4 (1990) return to top
The Building of Arlingham Church Tower 1372 by Joseph Bettey 2
Thornbury Castle by Bryan Little 3-4
The Shipway Pedigree Fraud, or Regina v. Davies by Robert Haines 5-6
Street Ballads in Gloucestershire by Roy Palmer 6-10
The Model Farms of Victorian Gloucestershire by Celia Miller 11-13
Cotswold Barns by Dylan Fee 13-15
The Fireless Locomotive by Alan Drewett 15
Special Extra Edition (1990) return to top
The Development of an Urban Site 1455-1750, The Island and Lower Part of Westgate Street by Barbara Drake 2-17
Seynckley – From Abbess to Artist by Neville Crawford 18-32
No. 5 (1991) return to top
The Bisley Path by Christopher Cox 2-5
To Serve the Watermen by Stroud Local History Society 5-7
First British School in Tewkesbury by Rose Hogan 8-10
Samuel Baker of Gloucester by Evelyn Christmas 10-11
Ryan’s Royal Circus Visits Cheltenham by John Turner 11-14
The Beginning of the Cheltenham Dispensary by Daphne Doughton 14-17
No. 6 (1992) return to top
An Old House in Leonard Stanley by F.P. Meadows 2-4
Maisemore and the River Severn by Betty Chamberlayne 4-7
Bibury Charities by John Holland 7-9
Gloucestershire Cavaliers by Russell Howes 9-12
The Dixton Paintings by Jane Sale 12-16
The Ludlows of Chipping Sodbury by Robert J Haines 16-17
No. 7 (1993) return to top
The Cotswold Yeoman by Anthea Jones 2-4
Gloucestershire Roundheads by Russell Howes 4-7
Humpty Dumpty by The Guardian 7-8
The Shocking Occurrence at Stroud Workhouse by Philip Walmsley 8-10
Dursley Charities by Constance Cuff 10-14
Postal Reforms and Gloucestershire Postal History by George Cole 14-16
No. 8 (1994) return to top
Who was Doctor Foster? by Philip Brown 2-3
The Early Decades of the Cheltenham Dispensary by Daphne Doughton 4-9
Frowde the Proud – the Clown Evangelist by John M Turner 9-14
St Mary’s Home, Painswick by John Bailey 14-15
No. 9 (1995) return to top
Hatherley House by Hugh Conway-Jones 2-3
Apprenticeships of Children of the Poor by John Bright 4-6
Gloucester Street History Group, Winchcombe by Rob White 7-10
Stone Built Sheepwashes in Gloucestershire by John V. Garrett & Ted Hodgkins 11-14
The Dursley Saddlers. by Connie Cuff 14-16
No. 10 (1996) return to top
Place Names around Cheltenham by Jane Sale 2-4
The early Manors of Longborough by Margaret Shephard 4-9
A Ballad Enigma by Roy Palmer 10
The casebook of Ralph Fletcher M.D. by David Stevens 11-12
Travelling along the Trail (The development of a community-based art project in the Stroud Valleys, Nailsworth). by Sue Reed 13-16
No. 11 (1997) return to top
An Old Cirencester Chapel by F. James 2-9
The Champions of the Vale by Constance Cuff 9-12
Paupers and Officialdom by John Bright 12-16
St John’s Cheltenham, Early Years by Brian Taylor 16-19
No. 12 (1998) return to top
The Story of Trinity Mill Bagendon by Joyce M. Barker edited by Richard W. Whorlow 2-7
Maisemore Court and the Families who lived there Part 1 by Betty Chamberlayne 7-12
Quenington and Godwins by Ray Trinder 12-15
Superintendent Thomas Basson 1836 – 1909, A Policeman and his Family by Julie Harrison 15-17
From Westcote to New Zealand in the 1870s. by Angela Dix and Pamela Rouse 17-20
No. 13 (1999) return to top
The Battle of the River Severn by Bryan Jerrard 2-5
Maisemore Court and the families who lived there – Part II by Betty Chamberlayne 6-11
John Pickard A Stroud Life, 1808-1841 by Philip Walmsley 12-15
Children of the North Cotswolds: One Hundred Years ago by Gerald Asbury 16-19
The Election of Gloucestershire County Coroners 1800-1888 Part I by G.H.H. Glasgow 20-25
No. 14 (2000) return to top
Cheltenham Destroyed – An introduction to the lost buildings by Oliver Bradbury 2-9
Prosperity Forgotten – A study of the Stroudwater mills, 1850 to 1871 by Ian Mackintosh 10-15
Nathaniel Dyer – A newly discovered bit of history by Betty Mills 16
The Election of Gloucestershire County Coroners 1800 – 1888, Part II by G.H.H. Glasgow 17-20
No. 15 (2001) return to top
Leisure Pursuits of a nineteenth century Engineer by Peter Griffin 2-7
The Remnants of a Landscape Park- Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire by Oliver Bradbury 8-15
A Political Problem – Local Liberal candidates at the General Election of January 1910 by John Howe 16-20
The Lost Autobiography of James Henry Frowde by John M. Turner 21-28
Local History in Winchcombe by Rob White 29-31
No. 16 (2002) return to top
Nineteenth century Clock and Watchmakers in Southgate Street, Gloucester by Alan Sparkes 2-8
The Manorial Estates of Leckhampton by Terry Moore-Scott 9-22
Unwillingly to Australia by David Willavoys 23-29
Gloucestershire County Council Sites and Monuments Record by Tim Grubb 30
No. 17 (2003) return to top
Where did the vicar of Winchcombe live before the Old Vicarage was built? by Rob White 2-7
The Reformation in Gloucestershire parishes by Russell Howes 8-15
Renovation of Pittville Pump Room and its reopening by Ashley Rossiter 16-20
Humphrey Brown M.P., ship owner, silk manufacturer, mayor, M.P. and bankrupt by John Dixon 21-26
No. 18 (2004) return to top
Crime in Gloucestershire 1805 to 1833 by Bryan Jerrard 2-10
Cheltenham’s Bandstands by Mick Kippin 11-16
Two Sixteenth Century Gloucestershire Men by Nancy Lockwood 17-28
A Case of Poverty in late Victorian Cheltenham by Ron Edlin 29-31
Barnwood House and Grounds by Hugh & Rosemary Conway-Jones 32-
No. 19 (2005) return to top
An 18th century Squire by Jane Sale 2-8
Gloucester and the 1904-5 Welsh Revival by Simon Carpenter 9-17
Queen Elizabeth I in Gloucestershire by Russell Howes 18-22
Edwin Peckham (1887-1972) – the Stroud Photographer by Mike Cooke 23-26
No. 20 (2006) return to top
Early District Nursing in Gloucestershire by Carrie Howse 2-8
16th and 17th century Silver made in Gloucestershire by Tony Sale 9-20
Police and Crime in Gloucestershire 1834-1856 by Bryan Jerrard 21-32
Dursley Emigrants to South Africa in 1820 by Ann Bailey 33-38
No. 21 (2007) return to top
Gloucester’s Near Miss: The Crash of Vickers Varsity G-APAZ by John Putley 2-7
The Evolution of Gloucester’s Government AD 96-1835 by Alan Sparkes 8-15
Mass Dials in Gloucestershire by Tony Wood 16-22
Minsterworth: Evidence of the Early History by Margot Johnson 23-30
No. 22 (2008) return to top
The oldest showman in England: Gloucestershire’s John Bellamy (1808-1893) by Steven Blake 2-10
The state of Gloucestershire’s tenant farmers and their labourers in the Victorian years up to 1872 by Michael Martin 11-17
Almshouses – a life of privilege: a comparison of almshouse life and poor relief in Chipping Campden by Judith Ellis 18-25
Under water: flooding in Cheltenham 1731-1993 by Mick Kippin 25-29
No. 23 (2009) return to top
The Bible Christian Methodists of Gloucester: the early years of St Luke’s Church, Stroud Road by Simon Carpenter 2-11
Noble Gifts: the legacy of Daniel George Bingham (1830-1913) to ‘my old native town’ of Cirencester by David & Linda Viner 12-23
The Garrison of Gloucester in the Civil War by Russell Howes 24-31
No. 24 (2010) return to top
The eve of the Industrial Revolution: access to land in the weaving parish of Bisley by Joan Jameson 2-10
Cromwell and the Forest of Dean by Alex Knight 11-18
Almshouses of Gloucestershire by John Loosley 19-32
No. 25 (2011) return to top
Blacklow Hundred, Gloucestershire: a proposal for a lost assembly site by Janet Hudson 2-6
The Holst family contribution to Cheltenham music making in the 19th century by Graham Lockwood 7-17
A moth-eaten rag: Regimental Colours in Cirencester Church by David Viner 18-28