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This site is here to complement the work of VCH throughout England, with particular emphasis on the history of Cornwall. The link between all studies is people. People make history.
Evolution
This web site will be constantly changing, developing and growing - we hope with your help. Here you will find details of recent additions and changes to the site. Visit us from time to time and read of our progress.
By logging on to http://www.englandpast.net you will see what the rest of the country is up to. Be assured Cornwall intends to remain at the spearhead of the revived and revitalised Victoria County History.
12th May 2010
ANNUAL LECTURE 2010
We are delighted to announce that our annual lecture will this year be delivered at a Friends of The Eden evening at 6.00 p.m. on Wednesday 23 June.by Professor John Beckett, who has been Director and General Editor of the VCH since 2005. He also holds the Chair of English Regional History at the University of Nottingham, where for much of his career he taught both undergraduates and MA students studying local history. He has written extensively on this subject, and his most recent book is Writing Local History (Manchester, 2007). John is passionate about his subject, is a lively speaker, and has supported the VCH in Cornwall in our aim to keep our work alive. Bearing in mind the venue he has chosen as his topic: The VCH in Cornwall: why was volume 1 mainly about natural history?
We hope you will join us. Tickets are available by completing and printing off and posting the following:
Booking form for The Victoria County History of Cornwall Event at The Eden Project on Wednesday 23 June at 6pm
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Please return with your payment to Teresa Stepping, Friends, Eden Project, Bodelva, St Austell, PL24 2SG
14th April 2010
The long awaited second 'Red Book' will definitely be published at the end of the summer!
14th April 2010
To update you on the Parish Template project. The probate documents for the period 1773 - 1857 for the parish of St Stephen in Brannel have been transcribed and extracts have been uploaded to the Victoria County History website (www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk), and the volunteers await their training to go back another 100 years.
In the meantime a different group of volunteers has started transcribing the probate documents for the same period for Creed parish, which is one of St Stephen's neigbours, and we are anticipating learning more about some of our St Stephen 'personalities'.
Even more exciting is the group of volunteers from Launceston who have agreed to carry out a similar exercise on the Borough of Launceston. They have already had their Record Office 'taster day' and their second training day will take place on 17th May, after which they will be let loose on the documents.
23rd November 2009
Last Saturday evening, at Newlyn Primary School, we held a celebration to send Joanna Mattingly's book "Cornwall and the Coast - Mousehole and Newlyn" out into the world.
Lady Mary Holborow, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, sent a message of congratulation and her apologies for not attending due to a prior engagement, and Lady Banham welcomed our guests and introduced the speakers: Jeremy Le Grice, who has written the Foreword, Hilary Bracegirdle, who was representing the HLF, and, of course, Joanna, who spoke warmly of all the support she has received during the research and writing of the volume. Professor John Beckett, Director of VCH, presented the first copy of the book to Lady Banham, our Chairman. We have waited such a long time for this to happen.
Then, to the lively sound of the Newlyn Reelers, our guests danced the night away, only stopping to refresh themselves on hot pasties and cider.
It was a joyous way to end what has been a fascinating project.
1st JUNE 2009
WE ARE AT ROYAL CORNWALL AGAIN. Come and see our display in the Heritage Tent (Countryside Area). This year we are celebrating a year's work by our Parish Template volunteers. Most of them will be manning the stand during the exhibition, and will be delighted to tell you what they have discovered.
OUR 'PARISH TEMPLATE' IS STILL GOING WELL!
We are coming to the end of our first tranche of will transcribing and are moving on to the next phase of our project. We intend to put some of the places named in the wills on to maps, hopefully digitally, and are investigating the best way of doing this. In the meantime do log on to the national website - http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk to read the transcriptions already uploaded.
Coral Pepper 12 Jan 2009
A MOST SUCCESSFUL DAYwas held at Cornwall Record Office on Saturday last, when eleven out of the thirteen new volunteers took part in a 'taster day' organised by Deborah Tritton and Niamh Downing of the CRO and Kim Cooper of the Cornish Studies Library in Redruth.
After a tour of the strong room they were set to work on some early Wills, and shown how to search for news items in the Cornish Guardian from the earliest copies to date.
An exciting development of our volunteer work is that, for the first time, two of our partners will be providing volunteer input simultaneously and from all parts of the county. No longer will volunteers have to travel to the Record Office in Truro, or to the Cornish Studies Library in Redruth, but they can work from their own home, or from a nearby public library. Oh, the wonders of technology.
We will keep you posted as and when we need to take on board additional volunteers.
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