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The Devon Historian Vol 95
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Articles
- Devon in the 1920s: Building a New Understanding of our Past, Julia Neville
- Returning Servicemen and the Growth of Smallholdings in the 1920s, Clare Greener
- The Landed Gentry: Land Sales and Social Change, Helen Turnbull
- How Effective Were the School Medical Services in Devon in the 1920s?, Tim Lomas
- Restoring Devon Cottages: The 1926 (Rural Workers) Housing Act, Philippe Planel
- Shipbuilding in North Devon in the 1920s. John Bradbeer
- By Wagonette and Charabanc: Tourism on Dartmoor in the 1920s, Peter F. Mason
- Ever Increasing Circles? Transport and Mobilities in Devon in the 1920s, Contributors to the Project and Julia Neville
The Devon Historian Vol 94
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- North Devonians and the Spanish Inquisition during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Teresa Tinsley
- Drinking water in nineteenth-century Devon, Drew Campbell
- The Ayliffes and Wyndhams: Bovey Tracey to South Australia, Spencer Thomas
- Field Names in Northern Devon: A Preliminary Survey Using the Tithe Survey of c.1840, John Bradbeer
- Sylvia Fox-Strangways: First Head of Visual Arts at Dartington Hall, Frances & Malcolm Billinge
- The Working Life of Children and Young Persons in the 1920s, Helen Turnbull
The Devon Historian Vol 93
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- Brictric Son of Algar: An Anglo-Saxon Thegn, John Leach
- The Development of the Manor of Gidleigh, 1250 – 1386. Judith Moss
- ‘Ashamed to Speak Thereof’: Child Abuse at Dartmouth, 1623, Todd Gray
- Colyton’s Contribution to Understanding the Nature and Causes of Pandemics, Sarah Charman
- Field Sizes in Northern Devon: A Preliminary Survey Using the Tithe Survey of c.1840, John Bradbeer
- Prostitutes and Petty Crime: Some Examples from Mid Victorian Devon, Michael Weller
- ‘Some May Call Us Common Girls’: Women Workers and the War Effort in World War One. Tony Gale
The Devon Historian Vol 92
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- Royalists, Planters and English Gentry: The Walronds of Barbados, Antigua and Devon, Peter Barton
- Beat-Burning in Northern Devon: Evidence from the Tithe Survey of c.1840, John Bradbeer
- Kellow John Pye: A Forgotten Musical Worthy of Exeter, Ian Graham-Jones
Devon’s Parish Boundaries as Recorded on Tithe Maps, Martin Ebdon - Six Views of the Devon Landscape: The Camden Town Group of Artists in Devon, c. 1910-40, Andrew J. H. Jackson
- ‘The new England is knocking on the door’: developing university education in Devon, 1917-1922, Julia Neville
- The Problem Family in Exeter c. 1940-1970, Pamela Dale
The Devon Historian Vol 91
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- The Cult of St Urith in pre-Reformation Devon, Esther Chant
- The Whetcombe Brothers: Devon Merchants during the English Civil War, Gill Selley
- The Devon Merchant Fleet in 1840: An Analysis of the Lloyds Register, John Bradbeer
- From Tiverton to the Cottian Alps in 1850, Philippe Planel
- The Torquay Historical Pageant Of 1924, David Hinchliffe
- The Gill Altar in Blundell’s School Chapel, Tiverton, Mike Sampson
The Devon Historian Vol 90
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- Ships and Shipping in Tudor North Devon, John Bradbeer
- The Family Background and Youth of Devonshire Restoration Playwright, Lyricist and Wit Thomas D’Urfey (1653–1723), Ed Dutton
- The Lousadas of Sidmouth’ Peter WIingfield-Digby
- A Village Epidemic in 1731 – Smallpox in Rackenford, Sarah Child
- Church Fees in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Andrew Jones
- The Contribution of NUWSS Organisers in Devon to the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage, Penny Bayer
- A Whole-Hogger in Honiton: How Clive Morrison-Bell Became a Member of Parliament in 1910, Paul Auchterlonie
The Devon Historian Vol 89
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- The Legend of Saint Budoc, Dave Wildman
- The Classification of Devon Roodscreens: A Re-Assessment, Michael Aufrère Williams
- A Hydraulic Landscape in Branscombe, John Torrance
- The Boundaries of the County of Devon, J. W. Hart
- ‘Honiton Has Swallowed All’: The Escot (East Devon) Estate and the Yonge Family, Philippe Planel
- The Life and Tragic Death of Simon Levy, a Silversmith from Georgian Exeter, Ian Varndell
- The Bridestowe Peat Sett, Michael Messenger
- The 1929 Plymouth Drake Election Petition, Jonathan Wood
- Obituary – Bob Patten 1948-2018
The Devon Historian Vol 88
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Special 50th Anniversary Issue: Early Victorian Schools
Articles
- Introduction and Overview, Julia Neville & Helen Turnbull
- Patrons and Parsons: the development of elementary education in rural Devon parishes, 1833-1870, Julia Neville
- Religious Rivalry, Helen Turnbull
- Marwood Schools, Michael Blower
- The Chagford Philanthropists Ensuring Education for the Poorer Members of their Community 1790–1870, Sue Price
- The Slow Death of Dartmouth’s Endowed Grammar School, Gail Ham
- The Heathcoat Family and Education in Tiverton, Mike Sampson
- The Development of Schools for the Pauper Children of Devon, 1833-1870, Helen Turnbull
- Lace Schools in East Devon, Julia Neville
- Private Schools in the South Devon resorts, 1830-1870, with particular reference to Exmouth Jackie Bryon
- West Buckland Farm and County School: Post-Elementary Education for Farmers’ Sons in the 1860s, Julia Neville
The Devon Historian Vol 87
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- The Escheators, their Duties and Role in the Heritage of Devon’s Landed Families, Charles Scott-Fox
- Devon Roodscreens after the Reformation: Destruction and Survival, Michael Aufrère Williams
- The Colyton Feoffees and Twenty Men, Sarah Charman
- The Bidlakes of Bridestowe and the Young Pretender, Elly Babbedge
- Devon Dairying: A Look Back, Helen Harris
- The Church of England and the Great War: the Clergy in North Devon, Andrew Jones
- Participation in the Female Community by Women of the Frood Family of Topsham: Gentility, Suffrage, WWI and Afterwards, Penny Bayer
The Devon Historian Vol 86
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Oats, Sprats and Barley Bread: Feeding Devon in World War 1
Articles
- Introduction, Henry French
- Changes in Crop Areas and Livestock Numbers in Some Devon Parishes in Response to World War I, Edward Hitchings, Penny Lawrence, Judith Moss & Roger Wilkins
- Methodology of Investigating Changes on Farms in Some Devon Parishes in World War I, Penny Lawrence
- Two Girls on the Land: A 1918 Diary, Judy Moss
- Devon County Council and First World War Food Production Policy: A Challenge to Landlordism and Squirearchy, Julia Neville
- Challenges to Devon Estate Gardens During World War One, Clare Greener, Anne Kaile & Julia Neville
- Gooseberries for the Fleet: The Home Front Kitchen in Devon in World War I, Paul Cleave
- The Brixham Fishing Fleet in the Great War, Samantha Little
The Devon Historian Vol 85
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- Medieval Tenurial Geography and the Open Fields in Ottery St Mary, Christopher Wakefield
- The Meaning and History of Indio in Bovey Tracey, and the Legend of its Nunnery, Frances Billinge
- Four Neglected Pixy-Led Sources from Devon, Simon Young
- George Montagu of Kingsbridge and Lackham: Georian Soldier, Naturalist and Libertine, Tony Pratt
- Saint George’s Chapel, Windsor, and South Molton Parsonage in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Jeremy Sims
- Orchards in Northern Devon c.1840: An Analysis of the Tithe Survey, John Bradbeer
The Devon Historian Vol 84
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- The Devon Cromwellians, Stephen K. Roberts
- The Iconography of Medieval Devon Roodscreens, Michael Aufrère Williams
- Where is Hederland? Jeanne James
- Disorder and Rebellion: Perkin Warbeck and South West England, David M. Yorath
- Nonconformist Singing in Devon, Stephen Banfield
- The Impact of the Bible Christians in Rural North-West Devon – a Force for Unity or Division? Janet Few
- Early Victorian Farming on the Culm: Using the Tithe Survey to Examine Patterns of Land Use and Landscape, John Bradbeer
- Cultural Conflict in Ilfracombe: Fern-Collecting, and the Cottage Garden Society’s Prize-Giving Controversy of 1860, Andrew Jackson, Arran Hart, Tracey Jones and Rachel Maxey
The Devon Historian Vol 83
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- Medieval Devon Roodscreens from the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day, Michael Aufrère Williams
- Coping with Tribulation in the Late Middle Ages: A Sequence of Prayers in a Late-Medieval Medical Compendium in Exeter Cathedral Library, Charity Scott-Stokes
- Evidence for Eighteenth-Century Rebuilding at Poltimore House: Interpreting Edmund Prideaux’s Drawings, 1716 and 1727, Claire Donovan and Jocelyn Hemmings
- Charles Lanyon, Merchant of Penzance: Victim of Cruelty and Corruption in the County Debtors Prison in Exeter, Gillian Selley
- Napoleon in Plymouth Sound, Quentin Bond Spear
- Early Victorian Farming on the Culm: Using the Tithe Survey to Examine Patterns of Land-Holding Tenure, John Bradbeer
- The Bideford Rope-Maker’s Posts, Peter Christie
The Devon Historian Vol 82
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- A tribute to Robin Stanes: Sailor, Farmer, Historian, Teacher, Philippe Planel
- Athelstan and the Expulsion of the Britons from Exeter: Ethnic Cleansing or Rough Justice? Nicholas Grant
- Medieval Hatherleigh, John Leach
- Branscombe 1280-1340: A Medieval Landscape, John Torrance
- The Chapel of David at Hamme in the Parish of Ashprington, Devon, Jeanne James
- The Contribution of Devon’s Militia to England’s Defence Against the Spanish Armada, Ian Cooper
- ‘Beating the Bounds’ of Bovey Tracey, Frances Billinge
The Devon Historian Vol 81
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- Tracing the boundaries of the Borough of Bovey Tracey from Saxon Times to the present, Frances Billinge
- Working class housing in Victorian Plymouth: from slum to council house. Part 1: slums and artisans’ dwellings, Ann Bond
- The NHS at Poltimore House, Julia Neville
- George Ridd, Exonian lithographer: the Hastings Years, Jenny Ridd
- The Rector and the Revolution: the story of the Reverend Stephen Weston, Rector of Hempston Parva, Devon, and the French Revolution, Malcolm Ross
- St George’s Chapel, Windsor, and South Molton Parsonage in the sixteenth century, Jeremy Sims
- Branscombe 1280-1340: an East Devon manor before the Black Death, John Torrance
The Devon Historian Vol 80
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- ‘Some itinerant preachers have attempted to form a congregation but have not succeeded’, Graham Hendy
- The establishment of the New Zealand branch of the Acland family, Peter M Acland and Keith G Orrell
- William Rayer: Rector of Tidcombe, Tiverton philanthropist and saviour of Holcombe Court, Charles Scott-Fox
- Drapers extraordinary, part 1, Gillian Selley
- Charles, 6th Lord Clifford of Chudleigh: the life and times of a recusant Catholic, Helen Turnbull
- The contentious issue of Church rates: some examples from the county of Devon, Michael Weller
- John Whiddon, Master Gunner, Lou Whiddon
The Devon Historian Vol 79
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- John Cooke: engraver, Kit Batten
- Barnstaple to Exeter — two hundred years ago, A. Brian George
- From Dumnonia to Devonshire, Nicholas Grant
- South Devon’s ‘Newfanlan men’: Marion Hardy
- Fear and loathing in mid-Devon: the troubled history of Dulford House, Philippe Planel
- Mormon voices in Victorian Devon. Peter Vousden
The Devon Historian Vol 78
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- Mormons in nineteenth-century north Devon, Peter Christie
- Developments in rural roads history, Helen Harris
- Thorncombes’s 1644 mortality crisis, Eve Higgs
- Payments to itinerant travellers seeking alms in Hartland, 1612-1706, Stephen Hobbs
- The Devon County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1841-1856, Dorothy Presswell
- The cost of living in Elizabethan Devon, John Roberts
- The Ayshford community (formerly known as Ayshford Street), Charles Scott-Fox
The Devon Historian Vol 77
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- The origins of the Devon History society, Robin Stanes
- Migration in Torquay during the nineteenth century, Jackie Bryon
- The Tavistock Propylaeum, 1822-1831, Mary Freeman
- Weston Barton farm diaries, Anthony Greenstreet
- The site of Broadclyst Church House (or Church Ale House) and the present Red Lion public house, G. M. Hogben
- Population trends in late nineteenth century Otterton: a work in progress, Christopher Jago
- Issues relating to the planning of First World War memorials: a South Devon case study, Barbara O’Kelly
- A Devon poem of the Great War: Malcolm Todd
- Raddis Lane: what’s in a name? John Torrance
- The Spanish Armada: Drake and the five hulks, Richard Whidborne
- Rev. Thomas Alcock: vicar and eccentric, David Wildman
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