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The Devon Historian Vol 38

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  • The pewterers of Devon, Ronald F. Homer
  • Honiton war work depot, H.J. Yallop
  • An unfortunate speculation; The Sidmouth and Cullompton Turnpike Trust, M.C. Lowe
  • William Crossing and the Ivybridge connection, Bryan Nichols
  • The collaborative activity of nineteenth century Barnstaple historians, Noel Beer
  • Topsham Museum, Barbara Entwistle
  • The Horrabridge shoemakers, Joy Beer
  • Concerning postcard fairs, David Edmund
  • Devon centenaries, Adrian Reed

 

The Devon Historian Vol 37

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  • Explanations of buildings at the road edge, E.L. and S.B. Jones
  • A year in the life of a noble family and household-the Fortescues of Filleigh, spring 1772·spring 1773, Steven Pugsley
  • Social conditions in Lower Street, Plymouth in the nineteenth century, W.N. Bryant
  • The High Moor Railway, John Dilley
  • Whiter than white? Michael G. Dickinson
  • Ilfracombe Museum, Joy Slocombe
  • John Tradescant & the Plymouth Strawberry, David J. Hawkings

 

The Devon Historian Vol 36

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  • The landing of William of Orange at Brixham in 1688: Fact and Fiction, John Pike
  • French Prisoners of War on parole in Tiverton 1797·1812, Adrian Reed
  • Axminster mythology, G.M. Chapman
  • Devon centenaries, Adrian Reed
  • The Totnes North End Turnpike Trust, M.C. Lowe
  • Thorverton Bridge, A.B. George
  • Okehampton and District Museum of Dartmoor Life, Alan Endacott
  • The Revd. Dr. George Oliver and the Roman Catholic Church of St. Nicholas in The Mint, John Havill
  • The Roadford Reservoir Archaeological Project, Simon Timms

 

The Devon Historian Vol 35

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  • Tudor artillery towers and their role in the defence of Plymouth 1588, Mark Brayshay
  • Robert Gaul I and II, Exeter’s last pewterers, Ronald F. Homer
  • The ‘Torbay Cyclone’ of 1866, Stephen Coffey
  • Poor relief in early Victorian Plymouth, W.N. Bryant
  • Messages from the past, Ian Stoyle
  • Coldharbour working wool museum, Uffculme, Adrian Reed
  • Devon death anniversaries, Adrian Reed
  • The old field names, Freda Wilkinson
  • A graveyard project at Tavistock, John Pike

 

The Devon Historian Vol 34

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  • French prisoners-of-war on parole in Devon 1750-1815, Crispin Gill
  • The North Devon Athenaeum, J.M. Rowe
  • Mass walkout by doctors, Marjorie F. Snetzler
  • Billiards, Jeffrey Porter
  • The origin of the family name of Western in Devon, W.G. Western
  • Popular impressions of Plymouth: picture postcards and their messages 1900 to 1930, David J. Hawkings
  • Charles Il in two places at once, G.W. Chapman
  • Common Ground and the Parish Maps Project, Tom Greeves
  • Devon birth anniversaries, Adrian Reed & John Ryton

 

The Devon Historian Vol 33

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  • The medieval parishes of Devon, Nicholas Orme
  • Plymouth: histories and historians, David J. Hawkings
  • Trevor Falla’s vermin transcripts for Devon, P.J. Dillon and E.L. Jones
  • Early sceampower links Devonport and Torpoint, Keith S. Perkin
  • Economic activity and economic aspects of urban change in the Borough of Plympton 1500-1780, Doreen McGrail

 

The Devon Historian Vol 32

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  • Chartism in Devon: a case for re-assessment, Bruce Coleman and Richard Patterson
  • James Green, civil engineer, 1781-1849, A.G. George
  • Rendel’s hydraulic drawbridge at Bowcombe Creek, Keith S. Perkins
  • John Western, of Exeter and Sydney, W.G. Western
  • Plymouth Workhouse in the census returns of 1861 W.N. Bryant
  • Stranding of ‘whales’ at Seaton, C.A. Ralegh Radford
  • Plymouth City Museums and Art Gallery, Cynthia Gaskell Brown

 

The Devon Historian Vol 31

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  • The Honiton elections of 1806 and the genesis of parliamentary reform, John Sugden
  • Gypsy poachers in Victorian Devonshire, J.H. Porter
  • What’s in a name’? Iris M. Woods
  • Foundries in nineteenth Century Tavistock, Helen Harris
  • The contribution of the Holdsworth and Newman families to Dartmouth, Ray Freeman
  • The inimitable George Wightwick, Keith S. Perkins
  • Roads in South Devon, John Pike
  • Railways in South Devon, John Pike
  • A moorland healer, E.F. Hall

 

The Devon Historian Vol 30

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  • The Puffing Giant: origins of the Dartmouth Floating Bridge, Keith S. Perkins
  • The Church of St Mary at Totnes, E.N. Masson Phillips
  • J.N. Singleton: first headmaster of the first factory school in the South West, Ruth Harris
  • The dangers of enthusiasm, Jean Tsushima
  • A Charter of King Aethelwulf, Helen Mary Petter
  • Bradninch Manor, C.A. Ralegh Radford

 

The Devon Historian Vol 29

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  • The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce: some 18th century Devonian & Cornish associations, David Allan
  • Huguenot Heritage: a note, Jean Tsushima
  • Relative urban wealth in 1524/5, R.R. Sellman
  • Azariah Pinney, yeoman of Axminster, W. MacDonald Wigfield
  • A Saxon early-warning system, Anthony Collings
  • An example of 17th. century Honiton lace, John Yallop
  • The maritime history of Torbay, John Pike

 

 

The Devon Historian Vol 28

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  • Migration and the social geography of mid-nineteenth century Plymouth, Mark Brayshay and Vivien Pointon
  • George Brooke of Whimple, 1785 – c.1850, Greg Finch
  • The making of a myth: the origin of Honiton lace, H.J. Yallop
  • A snub for Polwhe, G.J. Paley
  • Jeffcott v, Hennis, Geoffrey J. Paley
  • The MSC Green Lanes project, Valerie Belsey and J.M. Parr
  • An Exhibition of Devon History in 1985? John Pike

 

The Devon Historian Vol 27

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  • Elections at Exeter 1689-1760, Robert Newton
  • J. C. Hele: Newton naturalist, Jeffrey Porter
  • The conservation of the historic environment: changes since 1980, Simon Timms
  • Watermills of Pilton, Stella Harley
  • Galmpton railway bygones, E.R. Westlake
  • Green lanes in Devon : preliminary report

 

The Devon Historian Vol 26

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  • Radical shoemakers, Jeffrey H. Porter
  • Some aspects of Devon’s role in the Industrial Revolution, Harold J. Trump
  • Some readily available sources for local historians in Devon, Seamus O’Hea
  • Paintings of four Devon windmills, Walter Minchinton
  • Peter Orlando Hutchinson: his advice on barrow-digging, Leslie V. Grinsell
  • A young Scotsman in Plymouth, 1824: further pages from the Diary of Patrick Grant Beaten, Sir Edgar Vaughan

 

The Devon Historian Vol 25

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  • Peter Orlando Hutchinson of Sidmouth, Catherine Lineham
  • The elusive Lady Glanville and the spurious Exeter connection, Anthony G. Collings
  • Service and the single girl in Victorian Exeter, Jane Emerson
  • Local History Collections in Devon, D. Wyn Evans
  • A young Scotsman in Plymouth, 1824: pages from the Diary of Pat rick Grant Beaton, Sir Edgar Vaughan

 

The Devon Historian Vol 24

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  • The place of Colyton in English population history, Brian Clapp
  • The early water supply of Plymouth: an introduction, David Hawkings
  • The Devon contingent in Monmouth’s army, W. MacDonald Wigfield
  • Devon Parish Libraries at Exeter University, D. Wyn Evans
  • The International Genealogical Index (lGI), and Plymouth searches, Ann Chiswell
  • Shipping registers: a postscript, Margery Rowe

 

The Devon Historian Vol 23

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  • Exeter in the census of religious worship, 1851, Bruce Coleman
  • Hugh Squier of South Molton, Gertrude Morey
  • Shipping registers, Margery Rowe
  • Early 18th century cider production at Bearscome Farm, South Devon, Rosemary Robinson
  • School log books for selected Exeter schools, Virginia Locke
  • Early book trade in Devon, Ian Maxted
  • Illegitimacy and bridal pregnancy in Ottery St Mary, Ena Cumming

 

The Devon Historian Vol 22

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  • Devon Bibliography 1980, Geoffrey Paley

 

The Devon Historian Vol 21

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  • The Barnstaple Election of July, 1852, Robert Newton
  • Tithe apportionments for Crediton and Exminster, Christopher T. and Michael J. Watts
  • Tory Exeter? Geffrey J. Palley
  • Lime burning in East Devon, Ronald E. Wilson
  • Aliens in Tudor Devon, R.R. Sellman
  • Dartmoor: the evolution of a prehistoric landscape, Andrew Fleming
  • A glimpse of mediaeval Dalwood, G.M. Chapman

 

The Devon Historian Vol 20

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  • The Standing Conference for Devon History: the first ten years, Robin Stanes
  • Charles BradIaugh and the Exeter Roughs, Jeffrey Porter
  • Fire disasters: the special case of East Devon, Eric Jones
  • The conservation of the historic environment: legislation and grant procedure, Simon Timms
  • Rawridge Mill, East Devon, R.E. Wilson & John Marr
  • Some guidelines for recording vernacular house, Charles Hulland

 

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