Warwickshire has many familiar images including Warwick Castle, Shakespeare’s Stratford, Rugby School to name but three. Another image surely still familiar to many residents, and which also acted as a ...
Warwickshire Local History Society was founded in 1965 to promote the study of local history in Warwickshire, and does this by lectures and publications. The society meets 10 times a year, to hear speakers or to visit sites of historical interest. It publishes Warwickshire History and a Bulletin, which are distributed free to members twice a year.
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After an excellent buffet lunch and the opportunity to explore the state rooms and the gardens of Stoneleigh Abbey, members reconvened in the Saloon to hear an ...
On 19 September, one hundred and twenty-two members and friends of the Warwickshire Local History Society (WLHS) enjoyed a day of festivities at Stoneleigh Abbey, to mark 50 years of the ...
The Miners’ Welfare Fund was introduced under the provisions of the Mining Industry Act 1920. The fund was raised from a levy of 1d per ton of coal produced, increasing ...
Recent publicity has drawn our attention to the importance of honeybees in the production of much of the food we eat. We read about beehives now being placed atop prestigious ...
Amongst its historical collections, the Market Hall Museum in Warwick cares for and displays the skeleton of an extinct male Giant Irish Deer (or ‘Irish Elk’), dug from an Irish ...
The geological collections of the Warwickshire Museum were initiated by the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society during the 19th century.
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Amongst the many curiosities collected back then are a small ...
Amongst the original collections of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society, the Warwickshire Museum cares for a number of tiny ‘books’ (actually decorative pieces), carved from different varieties of ...
Amongst the museum’s mineral collections there are many polished semi-precious stones of the variety known as agate. This is a finely crystalline variety of the common mineral quartz, well known ...
Interestingly, the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry also has a small collection of Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society specimens, transferred to them long ago.
Warwickshire Museum‘s collections include many books on natural history, geology and palaeontology, acquired during the 19th century by the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. These include volumes written by some ...
One of the aims of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society was to publish annual proceedings: a record of research into our county’s natural sciences and human history.
Many important ...
As the first collections grew, the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society‘s curators labelled the growing number of specimens, establishing a very basic documentation system. In those days, all object labels were ...
The hills at the southern tip of Warwickshire, above Long Compton, are capped by beds of limestone of Middle Jurassic age, roughly 170 million years old. These formed as layers ...
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At a 4:15am Sergeant Walton met four boys in Fleet Street armed with sticks and with commendable pluck he went up to them and on accosting them ...
Registers of Banns of Marriage
The baptism, marriage and burial records found in parish collections held at Warwickshire County Record Office are the family historian’s bread and butter. Banns registers, however, are an often ...
I have known about the four objects we have in our collections that relate to the suffragette movement for some time and have been fascinated by this period in history since a teenager. So, with 100th anniversary of women first gaining the vote, I wanted to make sure that we told the story of the movement for women’s suffrage in Warwickshire.
The glistening chunk of coal in the photo is a sample of the Warwickshire Thick Coal, collected from the former Daw Mill Colliery near Arley. It is on display at ...
Women’s Suffrage is better known today through images of Emmeline Pankhurst (who had read pamphlets authored by Shaw during her period of imprisonment in 1912), and militant acts such as Emily ...
True dinosaurs – land-dwelling ruling reptiles of the Mesozoic Era – are quite widespread in Great Britain, and more are being discovered all the time. In Warwickshire, our widespread Jurassic ...
These star-shaped objects, resembling snow flakes, are actually a type of fossil, commonly found in southern and eastern Warwickshire. These particular examples are from Napton-on-the-Hill, where the local Jurassic clay, ...
