When we are honoured by a Royal visit nowadays, we await with confidence a punctual arrival by helicopter or Rolls Royce, and there is often a great deal of preparation ...
In 1939 when the war was announced, I was 18 years old. I was stood on the side of the road next to the cinema waiting for my mum to ...
When Prince George of Cambridge was christened in a replica of a gown first used for a royal baby 172 years ago, it was a commemoration of eight generations of ...
These are my memories of the Recro 80 Festival which took place at Stoneleigh Showground, Kenilworth to celebrate the Queen Mother’s 80th birthday. I was only 10 at the time ...
Miss Mary Freeman of Ryton on Dunsmore did something quite remarkable. She noted the weather in the village on a regular basis for roughly 50 years, up until her death ...
Warwickshire has always loved a good wedding and the marriage in 1863 of Albert Edward (the future Edward VII), son of Queen Victoria, and Princess Alexandra, the daughter of Prince Christian ...
This warrant1 is addressed to Sir Robert Throgmorton, knight, Symon Digby, John Spenser, Robert Fulwood and John Erden requesting them to take steps to keep the peace, put down riots ...
The letter
Few personal letters written by Oliver Cromwell before 1640 have survived, so this letter1 is of particular value for the insight it provides into his character at a critical stage of ...
In 1855 19 year old Thomas Adkins, a native of Milcote, near Weston-on-Avon, was appointed a supernumerary interpreter at the Superintendency of British Trade with China. He was to remain ...
In previous articles, I have given an overview of the Adkins letters available at the Warwickshire County Record Office. However, it is also worth noting Adkins’s career after he retired ...
On Friday June 11th 1948 the Nuneaton Observer reported on the grandiose visit by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, to unveil the new inscription on the Riversley Park ...
The Rev. Dew departed even further from the course of the Avon to include a couple of pictures of Dunchurch that I thought worth including in our trip. I wasn’t ...
This is an account of the papers of Eleanor Archer; a local lady whose records are held at Warwickshire County Record Office, reference CR 367.
An educated woman
Miss Archer was born ...
Now that Christmas is just around the corner we wanted to select something seasonal to highlight from the Warwickshire County Record Office, and we think this December 1892 edition of ...
Britain’s history of slavery may seem a million miles away from picturesque Warwickshire, but there are closer connections than many may think. We have taken from our collection the accounts ...
It dawned on me that I hadn’t seen the traditional Morris dancers in the village where I grew up lately – funny the things you miss that you took for ...
(Continued from part one)
It seems that Newdigate had written to the BSAC on another’s behalf – D. Stiles Esq. of Nuneaton, who had also supplied a pamphlet supporting the emigration ...
One of the things I find interesting as a historian lies beyond looking at simply what happened in the past, but the practice of history itself – how history is ...
On this day, Warwick had shined its shoes and brushed itself down to welcome Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as she came to open the completed Shire Hall ...
HM Queen Elizabeth II has just become the longest serving monarch of Great Britain, passing the record previously set by Queen Victoria who reigned for over 63 years and seven ...
This photograph shows the importance of the May Day celebrations in the cultural life of this village. This was a very old custom whose origins are believed to be pagan ...
Royal visits don’t just happen … this much is revealed in the Willans Works engineering archives held here at Warwickshire County Record Office. Within the collection, a variety of records ...
“I think this accursed war will soon be over now, and that will settle all those worries for you, once and for all.” This was a line written by 19 year ...
Some of the staff of Nuneaton Observer decided to enter a float in the 1965 Nuneaton Carnival. As we had a small Albion hand printing press it was decided to ...
