The Devon History Society is pleased to announce the publication of its 40th Anniversary celebratory book Aspects of Devon History: People, Places and Landscapes.
The Devon History Society 40th Anniversary Book
Aspects of Devon History: People, Places and Landscapes
Edited by Jane Bliss, Christopher Jago and Elizabeth Maycock
Aspects of Devon History: People, Places and Landscapes marks the fortieth anniversary of The Devon History Society. This celebratory book, with an introduction by Todd Gray, includes contributions from both professional and local historians, and offers new perspectives on a diverse range of topics. In a stimulating collection of twenty-nine wide-ranging articles, authors consider aspects of social, political, economic, religious and maritime history from the medieval period to the twentieth century. A number of biographical studies are included. The articles will be of interest to all who are interested in the rich and varied history of Devon.
CONTENTS
Introduction: TODD GRAY
Delving in the Dark Corners of the Land: reflections on a historical apprenticeship: MARK STOYLE
How I Became a Historian: CHRISTOPHER HOLDSWORTH
Achieving Devon: IVAN ROOTS
Ordulf’s Shadow in Tavistock: MARY FREEMAN
A Chronology of Dartmouth’s Members of Parliament: ERIC PRESTON
The Landscape of Branscombe in the Early Fourteenth Century: historic landscape characterisation in the light of archival evidence: JOHN TORRANCE
People and Places in Fourteenth-Century Ottery St Mary: CHRISTOPHER WAKEFIELD
Devon’s Medieval Chapels as Coastal Landmarks: JEANNE JAMES
The Moorstone Leat: CHARLES SCOTT-FOX
William Worcester in Devon, 1478: NICHOLAS ORME
Sheriff Courtenay and the Western Rising of 1549: RETHA M. WARNICKE
A Thorncombe Byway: an investigation: EVE HIGGS
The North Devon Shipping Industry c.1650-1850: war, Wales, and the Bristol Channel dynamic: MICHAEL NIX
The ‘Good’ and the ‘Needy’ of Eighteenth-Century Sampford Peverell: PETER BOWERS, RACHEL CUTTS, COLIN PASSEY AND VAL WELLER
A Nineteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Dispute and a Lost Historic Interior: SUE SPURR
The Religious Controversy in Nineteenth-Century Woodbury: GILLIAN SELLEY
Anatomy of a Parish: Parkham 1841/1842: ARTHUR DARK
The Great Exodus: migration and Victorian Devon: GREG FINCH
The ‘Great Fire’ of Kenton and the Victorian Re-Building: the making of a distinctive architectural heritage: ANN BOND
Letters from Victorian School Children at Rousdon: a unique record: NICKY CAMPBELL
The Contingent Career Path of the Young George O. May: R.H. PARKER
George West: apprentice papermaker to American Congressman: PATRICIA NASH
From Wool to Electricity: SUE PRICE and JEAN RHODES
Before the Mains: methods of water supply in Rural East Devon: SUE DYMOND
Branscombe Postcards 1900-1950 as Resources for Local Historians: GEOFF SQUIRE
Francis Henry (Podian): MARGARET AND MICHAEL WILSON
Mrs Phillips and the Defeat of the General Strike: TONY SIMPSON
‘Noblesse Oblige’: Dame Georgiana Buller and Services for Disabled People in Twentieth-Century Devon: JULIA NEVILLE
The Shearers and the Shorn Revisited: twentieth-century rural Devon through the eyes of E.W. Martin: ANDREW J.H. JACKSON
Paperback, 29 articles, 90 plus illustrations
ISBN 978-0-903766-02-9
RRP £18.00
Aspects of Devon History: People, Places and Landscapes was published on Friday 2 November 2012. Copies are now available from Stevensbooks (www.stevensbooks.co.uk) priced £18
