Pageant week got underway on Sunday 1 July with a special service at St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, preached by the Bishop of Bristol. Special services were also held in other ...
The pageant of 1906 was accounted a great success, and did much to raise the temperature of the ‘pageant fever’ developing in the wake of the Sherborne performance. With the ...
In June 1905 Edward Hicks, an enterprising Warwick journalist (and author of a book about Caradoc), pounced on a passing suggestion in the Daily Telegraph that Warwick would be an ideal site ...
The Women’s Research Group was set up in 1998 and initially connected to Coventry University, whose staff gave us a lot of support and encouragement. Members thought that women’s history in Coventry had been neglected and its aim was to give the subject more prominence.
Myth and history can sometimes be uneasy bedfellows, yet the mythic past can often be just as key as anything rooted in historical ‘fact’ when forging a community’s identity. Myth ...
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Ordinatum est per xii jur’ predictos quod nulli decetero de villata de Atherston’ ludunt ad lusum vocat’ la Teneys sub pena de xld. tociens quociens quod luder’ videntur –
Ordered by ...
The Plough and Harrow was built as a timber frame building in the 17th century. It became a Grade II listed building on 23rd January 1987.
The public house was refurbished ...
Graham Obree (born 1965), known to cycling fans as the ‘Flying Scotsman’, is best known for breaking the World Hour Record on the velodrome twice (1993 and 1994), as well as ...
Warwickshire has one of the most varied selections of rocks in the country. It spans over 600 million years from the depths of the Precambrian period, with violent volcanic eruptions, ...
This is a forum for heritage groups in North Warwickshire and meets three times a year at various venues around the area. This is a chance for heritage and history groups to get together and exchange ideas and information. Two members from any organisation are welcome to attend, and minutes are sent out to everyone on the database. Membership is free.
This is a group dedicated to the researching of the history of Polesworth and the areas around. Meetings are monthly in the Tithe Barn, Polesworth, every second Wednesday of the month and alternating between afternoon and evenings.
The Alcester and District Local History Society strives to discover and record the rich and varied past of Alcester and meets every month with a guest speaker giving a presentation of local or national historical interest.