Gloucestershire News and events
VCH Gloucestershire are pleased to announce the publication of Cheltenham before the Spa, the fullest account yet published of the town before its development as a fashionable resort in the 1740s. Our congratulations to the authors Beth Hartland and Alex Craven and to everyone involved in seeing...
The latest issue of the VCH Gloucestershire Academy Newsletter, packed full of information about all of our current projects in Cheltenham, Cirencester, and the Sodburys, is now available from our website.
You can read the previous issues here.
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Katy Layton-Jones as our new contributing editor for the Cirencester volume, which will become VCH Gloucestershire volume 16. In early 2018, she will be picking up the reins from Dr Francis Boorman, who is moving on to London-based projects, including work for...
VCH Gloucestershire are seeking to appoint a researcher to work on a number of parishes around Cirencester. See the job advert for full details: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BFE340/english-historian-early-modern-modern.
John Chandler is organising a VCH event on Thursday 14 September for the Gloucester History Festival. This will be a continuous relay of talks on local/regional history topics in chronological order, the last sentence of one lecture becoming the first of the next.
The draft text of Cheltenham Before the Spa has been posted for comments. This will be published as a 'Short' later this year.
The text is available on our Work in Progress page.
The latest issue of the VCH Gloucestershire Academy Newsletter, packed full of information about all of our current projects in Cheltenham, Cirencester, and the Sodburys, can be downloaded below.
You can read the previous issues here.
The latest volume of VCH Gloucestershire, comprising the histories of thirteen parishes to the north of Gloucester, was launched with two events to celebrate its arrival on Wednesday 14 September.
In the afternoon, County Editor Dr John Chandler presented some of his favourite 'Tales from the...
Issue number 5 of the VCH Gloucestershire Academy Newsletter can be downloaded below.
You can read previous issues here
We are pleased to announce that the recently published Yate Short is now available for Kindle. Priced at £9.50 you can buy your copy here.
