The First War World was to have its own, unique, impact upon Weddington Castle. Changes had already occurred a few years earlier, when, on the 3rd of August 1911 Henry ...
On the A46 Stratford Road on the left, going from Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, is a conical hill known as either the Devil’s Nutting Bag, the Devil’s Nightcap or Alcock’s Arbour. ...
When Cecil Sharp was researching Morris before World War One, certain folklorists were busy examining folk traditions, and they invented the idea that Morris was the survival of an exclusively ...
George Greville had shown himself to be occupied with Napoleon and the consequences of battle and his favourite son, Charles John Greville (1780-1836), had by the far the most active ...
It is a widely held belief that Ridley Scott’s 2023 epic film Napoleon, featuring Joaquin Phoenix, was something of a failure. Boiling down the career and passions of one of ...
Cross Hands Quarry is a disused limestone quarry at the southern tip of Warwickshire, close to the Oxfordshire border. Representing part of our county’s hilly Cotswold fringe, it occurs in ...
Last February, the notion came into my head to research if any new information had come to light about the wartime Wellington bomber crash in Warwickshire in which “Cousin Reg,” ...
Condolences and debriefs
Finding my research taking me to the National Archives I saw mainly copies of telegrams, memos and messages ensuring that the families were informed – with very scant ...
I did the bulk of my National Service at RAF Gaydon, April 1958 to December 1959. I was in equipment accounting and as I arrived as the 1,000 hours flying ...
The interdisciplinary Warwick Network for Parish Research (founded in 2003) supports a wide range of initiatives on parish history, art, heritage and culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
Community art and wellbeing in Stratford upon Avon and Nuneaton. Permanent exhibitions at Escape Arts and Heritage Centre in Stratford.
We are a large society which promotes local history in Alcester and the lower Arrow valley.
