Description
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II graciously permitted the Victoria County History to rededicate its series of county volumes, in celebration of her Diamond Jubilee. The History keeps the name it was given in honour of Queen Victoria when it was founded in 1899 as one of great national projects of that time. It has remained one of the foundations of knowledge about English localities, publishing a remarkable series of encyclopaedic volumes, county-by-county, parish-by-parish.
This book is about the Victoria County History of today: how it developed in its early commercial years through the commitment of its General Editors and a team of experts, before becoming a great public project based at the University of London, and now a dynamic organisation reaching everyone interested in their locality through websites, paperbacks and events, as well as the ‘big red books’. Each VCH county retains its own personality and loyal following, as you will see from the pages created by the counties active in research now.
Table of contents
Foreword
Preface
Early years of the VCH
Organisation
Aims and plans for completion
General volumes
Natural history
Archaeology and architecture
Topography
Women in the VCH
Move to the IHR
The Archives
Select bibiliography
The counties
Biographies of notable contributors Contributors 2007–12
VCH volumes published since 2000
The VCH in the 21st century
The VCH since 2000
England’s Past for Everyone
Volunteering and the VCH
Digital projects
England’s Past for Everyone
Support the VCH
The future...