An Introduction to the Devon in the 1920s Research Collection In March 2021 Devon History Society, Devon Family History Society, South West Heritage Trust and The Box launched the Devon in the 1920s research project, which aimed to encourage and support research into...
Some 525 cottages in Devon were restored according to the generous provisions of the 1926 Housing (Rural Workers Act) between 1926 and 1930. Although the 1926 act was a national scheme to improve the housing of farm workers, Devon was one of only a handful of counties...
Family Histories and Notable Devonians The Google map below shows the principal location of people resident in the 1920s whose biographies have been contributed to the ‘Devon in the 1920s’ project. For further information about these histories, or if you would like to...
The Devon History Society Early Victorian Schools research project ran between 2015 and 2018. A collection of articles produced as part of the project has been published in Volume 88 of The Devon Historian, and the case studies on which those articles are based are...
Devon History Society members collaborated during 2017/18 to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 by researching the lives of the women who were active in Devon during the suffrage campaigns between 1866 and 1918. The biographies written by...
Devon History Society members collaborated during 2015-2016 with the University of Exeter on a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Everyday Lives in War project. The first essays written by members were published in September 2015 and...
The Devon History Society Orchard Project is a DHS initiative to improve documentation of the decline of fruit growing in Devon - particularly East Devon - in the 19th century. It has now completed transcription of orchard data from Devon tithe apportionments c....
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