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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 21h

Not on the near agenda, but oh yes...

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Leicestershire VCH Trust @leicsvcht.bsky.social · 1d

This is good news. There's a huge amount of very useful information in there but the Record Commission version takes a while to understand. With the outreach activities too this is a very welcome project

Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 1d

Just to be clear, the Valor Ecclesiasticus is hardly unknown (and there are editions of the thing), whatever excitable press releases might say, but a new edition is very welcome.

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 1d

And brilliant news that local @vch-home.bsky.social groups will be involved in this research project! Watch this space for more detail...

Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 1d

Well. This has stirred us over our (ok, 3rd or 4th) cuppa.

Such an important document and up until now, relatively hard to use and access. Great news! #Skystorians

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 1d

Just to be clear, the Valor Ecclesiasticus is hardly unknown (and there are editions of the thing), whatever excitable press releases might say, but a new edition is very welcome.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 1d

We might have a footnote or ... erm, thousand? ... mentioning it.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 1d

Well. This has stirred us over our (ok, 3rd or 4th) cuppa.

Such an important document and up until now, relatively hard to use and access. Great news! #Skystorians

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 1d

An important milestone - the complete draft of this volume is the latest of the VCH production line. The last - for the historic county, but not *the last* - will be on the area around Burford, but come back in a year or so for that.

Why not *the last*? Well, watch this space... #Skystorians

Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 1d

New *draft* text from @vch-oxon.bsky.social, which completes the draft for their 22nd (and penultimate, for the historic county) volume which covers the area around #Chadlington.

The new drafts are for #Chilson, with Shorthampton and Walcot.

All comments, corrections, etc., gratefully received. 🗃️

Oxfordshire vol. XXII - Chadlington and Area

This volume will cover a swathe of west Oxfordshire rural parishes from Chastleton on the west through to Spelsbury, Enstone, and Kiddington on the east

www.history.ac.uk

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 1d

New *draft* text from @vch-oxon.bsky.social, which completes the draft for their 22nd (and penultimate, for the historic county) volume which covers the area around #Chadlington.

The new drafts are for #Chilson, with Shorthampton and Walcot.

All comments, corrections, etc., gratefully received. 🗃️

Oxfordshire vol. XXII - Chadlington and Area

This volume will cover a swathe of west Oxfordshire rural parishes from Chastleton on the west through to Spelsbury, Enstone, and Kiddington on the east

www.history.ac.uk

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 2d

No problem. We are all too aware how easy this is to do!

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 2d

1/ Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of To-morrow was published in Germany, as Gartenstädte von Morgen, in the same year as its British publication, 1902 ...

Three magnest diagram - Town, Country and Town-Country

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 2d

You're quite right - slip of the keyboard. Apologies to both her and @ruthslatter.bsky.social, of course.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 6d

A wonderful surprise this morning in the form of the latest publication from @wiltshistory.bsky.social.

Have a quick flick through @lrylandepton.bsky.social’s ’Langley Burrell and Kellaways, A History’, available now from @hobnobpress.bsky.social.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 5d

On 13 November, please join our friends in Somerset at the Museum of Somerset, Taunton, to support work in that county.

In 'Through the Windows of an Ordinary House', Dr Ian Mortimer looks at national histories through the windows of a Devon house.

Tickets £10 (concessions £5).

VCH Annual Lecture 2025

Join author and historian Dr Ian Mortimer on a journey through English history as seen through a single, ordinary building.

swheritage.org.uk

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 2d

This from our Co-General Editor, @ruthslater.bsky.social, engages with how we cultivate participatory projects that embed local communities in the development of local histories and allow these communities to reflect on how their histories have shaped their collective identities. [Full Text £] 🗃️

Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

3/ In the 1st article, I reflect on @vch-home.bsky.social as participatory historical geography, arguing that the VCH's current emphasis on participatory methods shows how long-standing research projects can adopt these developing ways of working rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article critically reflects on the Victoria County History's (VCH) relationship with participatory historical geography approaches. Telling a story of change, it argues that it is not only possi....

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 5d

On 13 November, please join our friends in Somerset at the Museum of Somerset, Taunton, to support work in that county.

In 'Through the Windows of an Ordinary House', Dr Ian Mortimer looks at national histories through the windows of a Devon house.

Tickets £10 (concessions £5).

VCH Annual Lecture 2025

Join author and historian Dr Ian Mortimer on a journey through English history as seen through a single, ordinary building.

swheritage.org.uk

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 5d

We could stretch to gold? We've always found red acceptable, but obviously tastes vary...

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 6d

The book is available in the pub? Perfect!

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 6d

This looks like it will be a really important resource for anyone studying work, labour (and the organisation of society), in the early modern period - and what is more, it is freely available - congratulations to all concerned!

Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 6d

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 6d

This is a *lovely* little book - Langley Burrell is on the edges (now), of #Chippenham and this serves as a prelude to the version that will appear in the next @wiltshistory.bsky.social 'Big Red Book' due out about this time next year.

Congratulations to all @hobnobpress.bsky.social. 🗃️

Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 6d

A wonderful surprise this morning in the form of the latest publication from @wiltshistory.bsky.social.

Have a quick flick through @lrylandepton.bsky.social’s ’Langley Burrell and Kellaways, A History’, available now from @hobnobpress.bsky.social.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 6d

Apologies - the Alt Text that we did type, didn't come through: A small format paperback book, with bright green cover. The video shows a flick through from back to front, start with the index and showing dozens of colour illustrations, maps, text and chapter headings finishing with the title page.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 6d

This book is one of our ‘Partnership Publications’ series, designed to bring the work of our various projects to the widest possible audience.

They sit alongside all our other work in being the best place-based histories we can produce. Learn more below:

Langley Burrell and Kellaways: a History, by Louise Ryland-Epton — Hobnob Press

Through riots and revelries, poverty and prosperity, the people of Langley Burrell and neighbouring Kellaways in north Wiltshire have adapted to centuries of change. In this thematic history of the pa...

www.hobnobpress.co.uk

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 6d

A wonderful surprise this morning in the form of the latest publication from @wiltshistory.bsky.social.

Have a quick flick through @lrylandepton.bsky.social’s ’Langley Burrell and Kellaways, A History’, available now from @hobnobpress.bsky.social.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 7d

This volume - one of three that @vchgloucester.bsky.social are currently working on - focuses on the town of Cirencester, a medieval town on a Roman site.

Work is also under way towards volumes on #Cheltenham, and on #Yate and the Sodburys - to learn more and support these projects:

Gloucestershire

Learn about the Victoria County History of Gloucestershire.

www.history.ac.uk

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 7d

More new *draft* text from @vchgloucester.bsky.social on the parish of #Coates, near #Cirencester.

All corrections, additions, or clarifications welcome! #Skystorians #LocalHistory

Gloucestershire vol. XVI - Cirencester and District

The research for the accounts of the prehistory of the area, the Abbey of Cirencester, the town and parish of Cirencester, Bagendon, Baunton, Daglingworth and Stratton.

www.history.ac.uk

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 7d

Welcome to the second #OnePlaceWednesday of #AATP25 (and the first of October)! Today’s #MiniAATP theme is Tools—we’ll come back to that later with details of videos to watch. In the meantime, and throughout today, do share all your #OnePlaceStudy news, updates links, pics and chat with the hashtag.

#OnePlaceWednesday.
Image: Photo of the view looking across a lake (Big Waters, at Fawsley in Northamptonshire). The view is framed by trees on each side, and foliage across the top of the picture. The near shore is lined with reeds, while on the far shore there is a lone Oak tree and a few shrubs. A banner reading "All About That Place" is superimposed near the top of the image.
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

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