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From Wiltshire Local Studies and Wiltshire and Swindon Archives Service
WILTSHIRE MONTHLY INTELLIGENCER
INCORPORATING PAST MATTERS AND THE WILTSHIRE LIST OF RECENT
AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS Issue 386 May 2014 Library orders by 30th May
Edited by Michael Marshman
In this issue:
HelpWanted! Afternoon Events at the History Centre
Outbreak of First World War Commemorations First World War in Wiltshire – Chippenham Creative Writing Group
Village Interpretation Day - Avebury Finding Your Family History Course
Singing in the History Centre What’s New on the Blog
Our Free Lacock Full Day Courses Wiltshire Community History
Those Were the Days My Friends at the Wyvern Theatre Wiltshire List of Recent Books
Help Wanted! Many hands make light work! If you could spare some time during June, July and/or August to help sub-number (write numbers on) and repackage historical documents please get in touch. The collection which needs this work is the archive of the Earls of Radnor, which has been catalogued by the late Robert Pearson and completed by Steve Hobbs. It is a collection of about 150 boxes, containing a variety of estate, family and household archives, dating from the 17th century to the early 20th century, so it would be great to have a small group working on this, to make it a more manageable task. This subnumbering and repackaging is an important final step before we can publish the catalogue and give access to this important Wiltshire collection. Please get in touch with Claire Skinner ([email protected]) if you’re able to help. Please let me know which day of the week you can work, and whether morning/afternoon or the whole day. (It is only feasible to do this work Mon-Fri 9 am – 5 pm) and provide a contact telephone number. Training and packaging materials will be provided. Thanks very much in anticipation, Claire Skinner, Principal Archivist.
Afternoon Events at the History Centre Our afternoon lectures have been increasing in popularity and we are often sold out. Please book your ticket for the lectures listed below as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. If you are unable to attend a lecture for which you have booked please let us know as we often have a waiting list for tickets. Thursday 29th May Keeping on the Straight & Narrow: Church Court Records of the 16th & 17th Centuries with Steve Hobbs New Lecture Some tickets remaining A glimpse into how the Church maintained standards and morals for both its clergy and congregation. Includs the punishments and consequences of breaching the Churches’s strict codes. Thursday 5th June Churchwarden’s Accounts with Robert Jago Some tickets remaining Gain a fascinating insight into these proper guardians or keepers of the parish church. From the day to day running of the parish church to the responsibilities of protecting and controlling its lands, property and interests. Thursday 19th June Looking at Life in Wiltshire Workhouses with Margaret Moles New Lecture Some tickets remaining Delve into the world of the under classes and understand how and why our ancestors ended up in these institutions and how hard it was to survive there. Talks will take place in the Education Room, off the Reception area, of the History Centre. Please arrive a few minutes before the start of a talk. Tickets for talks may be purchased in advance at the Help Desk in the History Centre or can be reserved (payment by credit/debit card, or by cheque, for 2 or more tickets) on 01249 705500 (Tuesdays to Saturdays 9.30 – 5.00). Numbers are limited so please buy your ticket in advance.
Admission for talks £3.50; Students, Unwaged and Pensioners £2.50
Outbreak of First World War Commemorations There will be many activities over the next four years commemorating events of 100 years ago. Parishes and local groups and societies are researching, publishing, and creating exhibitions to record the effects on local communities and the part these played in international events. For someone like me, who grew up among men who had served in that War, but rarely spoke of it, it’s a salutary lesson to realise that what, to me, seems relatively recent is distant history for many people. At the History Centre we are providing help to people and groups researching the Great War locally – please go to http://www.wshc.eu/world-war-1-resources.html for further information - and we will also be giving new afternoon lectures on various topics 100 years after the event. From July the Intelligencer will have a piece every month on something that happened exactly 100 years earlier in either Wiltshire or on the world stage that had an effect on the county. I have some subjects in mind for this but would happy to receive any ideas as I will have 53 months to fill!
First World War in Wiltshire – Chippenham Creative Writing Group
for adults, led by a professional writer
all genres – novels, short stories, poetry, play writing, new media
using historical artefacts and documents as inspiration
Where: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Cocklebury Road, Chippenham SN15
3QN When: Saturday Mornings 2014 10am-1pm
12 July 26 July 9 August 30 August 27 September 11 October 25 October 8 November
Cost: £20 for 8 x 3 hour sessions, plus expert mentoring For more information T: 01249 705531 or E: [email protected] http://danceandtheatrewiltshire.net/NowInThen-WritersGroup To book, T: 01249 705500 or E: [email protected]
Students must be able to commit to all sessions
Some tickets remaining
Village Interpretation Day - Avebury
Avebury - the History
with Michael Marshman, Ros Cleal and Brian Edwards
A few places remaining for a course that is being repeated by popular demand
A course examining archival and documentary sources, with an emphasis on looking at village development, shifting settlement, and building history in the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, followed by an interpretative landscape walk in the villages of Avebury and Avebury Trusloe. We will be concentrating on the history rather than the prehistory, although the two were frequently in contact through the centuries.
Programme – Monday 2nd June 2014
9.15 Course registration (History Centre will be open at 9.00)
9.30 Work with published sources, documents, estate records, wills and inventories, maps,
photographs and aerial photographs. 1.00 Lunch – please bring your own but drinks are available via vending machines. 1.30 Leave for Avebury (own transport). 2.00 Assemble at Avebury for an interpretive walk around the villages and their environs
with a detailed look at some of the buildings. 4.30 Finish Cost of course £15.00; tickets available from Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Cocklebury Road,
Chippenham (Tel. 01249 705500). Limited to 20 people
Finding Your Family History A Six Week Course on Sources You can Use
6 tickets remaining –
book now to avoid disappointment
30th May to 4th July 2014 Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Cocklebury Road Chippenham SN15 3QN
£25 for the 6 week course or £5 each for individual
workshops (if available)
Each workshop takes place on Fridays from 9.30 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. in the Education Room at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre. Biscuits and tea or coffee will provided mid morning. You will be handling documents and other original material in each session and so we ask you to only use pencils for any note taking. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask general questions and mention problems, but we will not be taking questions about individual ancestral research.
30th May Introduction to the family history course Claire Skinner
Printed sources and civil registration Michael Marshman 6th June Censuses, poll books and electoral registers Michael Marshman 13th June Church of England parish Robert Jago
Non-conformist records and others Margaret Moles 20th June Education Records Margaret Moles
Poor Law Records Terry Bracher 27th June Estate and manorial records Claire Skinner 4th July Wills and probate inventories Robert Jago
Quarter and Petty Sessions records Steve Hobbs The aim of this course is to enable you to become familiar with a range of sources that will be useful in family history research. You will have the opportunity to handle and use documents with professional assistance and gain confidence to use material that you’ve not previously considered. The course is designed to provide maximum benefit to people taking the whole course, but it will be possible to book individual workshops if space is available. Owing to the fact the archives relate to Wiltshire and Swindon, this course will be of most benefit to those with English or Welsh ancestry. Booking To book a place on the course please: Either: telephone Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre on 01249 705500 and you can pay by credit or debit card over the telephone. Or: make a booking when you visit us and pay by cash, cheque or card. Or: e-mail [email protected] and send us a cheque on confirmation of your booking. If you wish to book an individual workshop we will keep your details and contact you before the course start date to let you know if space is available.
Singing in the History Centre On Saturday 17th May we hosted a Full English Open Archive Day celebrating the largest digital archive of folk music manuscripts in the world - http://www.vwml.org/search/search-full-english . To quote from the English Folk Dance and Song Society site: The Full English is the biggest project the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) has undertaken since the building of our HQ, Cecil Sharp House, in 1930! Created in partnership with leading academic institutions, The Full English is an English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) project that brings together 12 major manuscript collections for the first time in the most comprehensive free searchable digital archive of English folk songs, tunes, dances and customs in the world. In a marriage between tradition and new media, more than 58,400 items from some of the country’s most important folk music collections – including manuscripts, notes and letters – from seven major archives, have been conserved, catalogued and digitized, before being uploaded to a central digital archive. You can now browse through the manuscript collections of Harry Albino, Lucy Broadwood, Clive Carey, Percy Grainger, Maud Karpeles, Frank Kidson, Thomas Fairman Ordish, Frank Sidgwick, Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alfred Williams and Mary Leather – from anywhere in the world, online. Also incorporated will be the collections included in the Take 6 project. Our Archives hold the Alfred Williams collection of over 770 songs that collected in Wiltshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire and the History Centre is one of the partners in this grant funded project.
The day began with the Sing It Out Choir performing some of the songs Alfred collected, and then Malcolm Taylor, Library Director of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, outlining the project and the creation of the new web site. Steve Roud, folklore expert, author and editor, spoke about spoke about the early folk music revival and Alfred Williams’ place in it. To conclude the day Chris Wildridge, creator of the Folk Arts section - http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/folkintro.php - of our own Wiltshire Community History web site, talked about the life of Alfred Williams, illustrating his work by singing three songs himself.
Members of the Sing It Out Choir performing in the History Centre
What’s New on the Blog this Month? Visit www.wshc.eu/blog
Journey to Pewsey
Our Museum Documentation Assistant Jacqui Ramsay has had good reason to travel to this Wiltshire village in the Vale. Find out why and you may be want to take a trip there too!
The Importance of Archives
Principal Archivist Claire Skinner takes a look at the recent case of Hillsborough, highlighting how archives can provide a valuable link to the past.
Sitting Pretty with Picture Postcards
A project is currently in progress to catalogue the vast number of early 20th century postcards we have in our collection. We take a look at the history of the picture postcard to
discover just why they became so popular.
Get your walking boots on!
The Archaeology Team have lots in store for this year’s Festival of Archaeology. Dates in diaries, please...
Don’t forget – you can also follow us on www.twitter.com/heritagewshc
Our Free Lacock Full Day Courses Twenty people enjoyed a fascinating day examining the development of the central part of Lacock village from late Saxon times in our first Lacock Village Interpretation Day. Led by Ally McConnell and Mike Marshman they examined documents from the 17th to 20th centuries and were encouraged to speculate on whether the medieval village had evolved or was planned. We also considered the position of a possible Saxon church and the early manor house. For more recent times one lady found her family cottage on a map of 1764 – the occupier then had her surname – while another found the family farm in 1804, again occupied by her family. After a fine morning in the History Centre the weather changed and we reached Lacock in a heavy downpour. However the National Trust had kindly allowed us to use the Manger Barn, where we discussed the discoveries of the morning while parties were also taken over the National Trust holiday cottage, where the timbers of the cruck construction have been dated to 1440. The weather then improved and two members of the Lacock History Group took us on a tour of the central part of the village where we examined individual buildings and related them to information found about
them, their usage and occupiers that had been uncovered from the documents in the morning. Our next Lacock day course is in July and at the moment we still have 6 tickets remaining. If you do take a ticket for one of our free events please let us know if you are unable to attend as we usually have a waiting list for these events. This course will involve some walking on footpaths outside the village in the afternoon. Course members looking at the 18th century Red House before visiting the church of St. Cyriac
Lacock: Development of the Village and its Environs with Claire Skinner, Ally McConnell, & Michael Marshman
A course examining archival and documentary sources to reconstruct the development of the community in the Wiltshire & Swindon History, Centre, followed by an interpretative landscape walk around the
village and outlying settlements.
Programme – Monday 21st July 2014
9.15 Course registration (History Centre will be open at 9.00)
9.30 Work with published sources, documents, estate records, wills and inventories, maps, photographs and aerial photographs.
1.00 Lunch – please bring your own but drinks are available via vending machines. 1.30 Leave for Lacock (own transport). 2.00 Assemble at Lacock National Trust car park for an interpretive walk around the village and
fields. Appropriate footwear needed 4.30 Finish
Free as a part of the Lacock Unlocked Project; tickets available from Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Cocklebury Road, Chippenham
(Tel. 01249 705500). Limited to 20 people
Wiltshire Community History http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/
The Folk Arts section has now been updated and is working well; we still have a few problems in some other sections but these will be resolved soon. I am hoping to get some more communities completed and uploaded very soon as I’m conscious that there have only been minor additions in the last two or three months. Our popularity continues however and we are regularly getting over 40,000 hits a month. While typing this the site was being used by someone in Mumbai.
Top 20 Communities Visited Online in the last Month 1. Trowbridge (1) 2. Salisbury (3) 3. Bradford on Avon (6) 4. Lacock (9) 5. Mere (2) 6. Tidworth (4) 7. Aldbourne (5) 8. Holt (12) 9. Hullavington (-) 10. Donhead St. Mary (11) 11. Corsham (8) 12. Chippenham (7) 13. Minety (-) 14. UIrchfont (-) 15. Downton (-) 16. Heytesbury (-) 17. Calne Without (16) 18. Dinton (-) 19. Sutton Veny (-) 20= Purton (-) 20= Box (-) 20= Broughton Gifford (-)
Those Were the Days My Friends A friend of the History Centre and one who has been involved in transferring much of our ciné film to video and DVD, Trevor Bailey, has sent us details of a new production matching traditional songs
to early ciné film of Wiltshire
WYVERN THEATRE, SWINDON - 25th JULY 2014 Those Were the Days My Friends
“Tonight you are immortal!” For one evening you can journey through time; through many decades of life in Wiltshire and Swindon captured on cine films dating from 1909 to 1970s. But this is no ordinary film show. Traditional songs of the area, performed live, will weave in and out of the moving pictures of our ancestors. You will have a guide on your travels who will tell you a story of many years and invite you to live for a while amongst the music and walking images of our past. Films – Windrose Rural Media Trust Narrator – Trevor Bailey Singer – Amanda Boyd Instumentalist – Nick Cocking
Tickets: £11 : £9 concessions Groups 10-19 £2 off full price ticket
Groups 20-39 £2.50 off full price ticket + group organiser goes free Groups 41+ £3 off full price ticket + group organiser goes free
01793 524481 www.swindontheatres.co.uk
WILTSHIRE LIST
Compiled by Helen Taylor
These are books that we are adding to the Wiltshire Collection at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre; we attempt to acquire all published material relating to Wiltshire. If you wish to buy a copy you will need to contact your local bookshop, or the publisher direct. W14 - 101 978 1 909268 20 3 AAS.914
Anderson, Jane Dorset, New Forest & Isle of Wight Footprint, 2014, £5.99 83 pages; maps; paperback Somewhat surprisingly this includes Stonehenge and the Salisbury area.
W14 – 102 W000051455 SAI.620
Browning, Bob Cowbridge House remembered Bob Browning, 2013, £8.00 Video disc, 47 minutes The story of the people who lived at Cowbridge House and those who later worked for ECKO on the site. A video based on Bob’s book ECKO’s of Cowbridge.
W14 – 103 W000051454 ATW.772
The other Boleyn girl, directed by Justin Chadwick Universal Picture, 2008, £19.99 Video disc, 117 minutes Based on the novel by Philippa Gregory this film includes scenes shot at Great Chalfield Manor.
W14 – 104 978 0 7524 1071 5 COR.771
Corsham Civic Society Corsham [cover title ‘Around Corsham’ Chalford, 2011, £12.99 127 pages; photos; paperback Reprint of the 1997 edition with some alterations.
W14 – 105 978 1 85284 694 7 ACR.913
Davison, Steve The Ridgeway national trail Cicerone, 2013, £12.95 208 pages; photos & maps; paperback Well illustrated guide with Ordnance Survey mapping for each section.
W14 – 106 W000051400 NTT.724
Duchars, Keith “A tower of strength”: Master Hugh Latimer and St Mary’s Church West Kington 3rd reprint 2009 (first published 1996) 29 pages; drawings; paperback Not a guidebook to the church but an attempt to examine the significance of it in the context of English church history.
W14 – 107 W000051408 TRO.922
Glotfelty, Stephanie The life, family, and history of John Dunnick, who was transported on September 2,1737 from the City of London’s Newgate Prison to Baltimore, Maryland Stephanie Glotfelty, 2013, no price 56 pages; photos, facsimiles& maps; paperback Seven generatuins of the family (Thresher, Marshman, and Godbie) lived in Trowbridge from the late 16th century to the early 18th. Contact [email protected]
W14 – 108 W000051407 AAA.771
Ryan, Max Bird’s eye view: exploring the contours of Somerset, Hampshire & Wiltshire Max Ryan, 2013 100 pages; aerial photos; paperback One third of the book contains aerial photographs of Wiltshire, mainly ancient sites, stately homes, and Salisbury Plain.
W14 – 109 W000051445 STU.913
National Trust Stourhead estate walks: five walks for all seasons National Trust, 2013, £1.00 12 pages; photos & map; paperback Walks of between 3 and 6 miles starting from Visitor Reception. Booklet available from NT Stourhead or some NT shops.
W14 – 110 978 1 84784 780 5 WEB.912
Ordnance Survey Westbury 1899: text by Tony Painter Alan Godfrey, 2014, £2.50 Folded map with text Another excellent reproduction of the 2nd edition 25” map in a reduced facsimile with a concise history of Westbury and Westbury extracts from the 1907 Kelly’s Directory of Wiltshire.
W14 – 111 978 1 907826 14 6 SAL.610
Spires Cleft Centre SLT Team Speech therapy in cleft palate and velopharyngeal dysfunction, edited by Ginette Phippen J&R Press, 2014 401 pages; contains CD; paperback Written by the Spires Cleft Team at Salisbury Hospital.
W14 – 112 978 1 84674 134 0 AAA.913
Vile, Nigel Around Bristol & Bath Countryside Books, 2009, £7.99 96 pages; photos & maps; paperback Includes walks in Slaughterford, Castle Combe and the By Brook valley, and Bradford on Avon and Avoncliff
W14 – 113 978 1 84674 293 4 AAA.913
Vile, Nigel Bristol & Bath: a dog walker’s guide Countryside Books, 2012, £7.95 96 page;, photos and maps; paperback Includes walks in and around Castle Combe, Bradford on Avon and Avoncliff suitable for dogs (and their owners)
W14 – 114 W000051409 MIN.922
Walker, Robin Luther Grandad, Minety &me: a lifetime in a north Wiltshire village Robin Walker, 2013, £15.00 256 pages; photos; hardback Three generations of a Minety family and the family business, the printers, Taylor & Sons of Minety. Much information about the village, businesses and events in the late 19th and early 20th centuries besides family and printing history. Copies available from R’L’ Walker, Tel: 01285 861375.
W14 – 115 978 1 85196 154 2 AAA.928
Saffery, Maria Grace and Whitaker, Anne Andrews Correspondence of Maria Grace Saffery and Anne Andrews Whitaker, edited by Timothy Whelan Pickering & Chatto, 2011 545 pages, hardback The Whitakers lived at Bratton while the Saffery connections were Salisbury, Bodenham, and Downton at a time (1788 – 1846) when non-conformist women were among the best educated in the country, many having attended Baptist colleges that offered a far broader range of subjects than the men only Oxford or Cambridge.
W14 – 116 W000051439 AAA.718
Wiltshire Council Local Development Scheme, January 2014 Wiltshire Council, 2014 34 pages; tables; paperback
W14 – 117 W000051436 AAA.718
Wiltshire Council Wiltshire Core Strategy: affordable housing (Core Policy 43) paper – implications of viability review, 28 February 2014 Wiltshire Council, 2014 5 pages; tables; paperback
W14 – 118 W000051434 AAA.718
Wiltshire Council Wiltshire Core Strategy: topic paper 15 addendum – housing requirement technical paper, 28 February 2014 Wiltshire Council, 2014 19 pages; tables; paperback
W14 – 119 W000051432 AAA.718
Wiltshire Council Wiltshire Core Strategy pre-submission document: hearing session tracked changed version, April 2014 Wiltshire Council, 2014 401 pages; maps; paperback
W14 – 120 W000051438 AAA.718
Wiltshire Council Wiltshire Core Strategy: SA addendum. April 2014 Wiltshire Council, 2014 34 pages; tables; paperback
W14 – 121 W000051433 AAA.718
Wiltshire Council Wiltshire Core Strategy: schedule of proposed modifications incorporating EXAM 73 and EXAM 74, April 2014 Wiltshire Council, 2014 155 pages; tables; paperback
W14 – 122 W000051437 AAA.718
Wiltshire Council Wiltshire Core Strategy: viability study, 28 February 2014 Wiltshire Council, 2014 135 pages; tables; paperback
W14 – 123 W000051451 AAA.380
Wiltshire Council Sustainable Transport Group Wiltshire Local Transport Plan 2011 – 2026:accessibility strategy Wiltshire Council, 2014 50 pages; maps; paperback
W14 – 124 W000051449 AAA.380
Wiltshire Council Sustainable Transport Group Wiltshire Local Transport Plan 2011 – 2026:cycling strategy Wiltshire Council, 2014 66 pages; maps & photos; paperback
W14 – 125 W000051450 AAA.380
Wiltshire Council Sustainable Transport Group Wiltshire Local Transport Plan 2011 – 2026:powered two-wheeler strategy Wiltshire Council, 2014 17 pages; graphs; paperback
W14 – 126 W000051452 AAA.380
Wiltshire Council Sustainable Transport Group Wiltshire Local Transport Plan 2011 – 2026:smarter choices strategy Wiltshire Council, 2014 20 pages; paperback
W14 - 126 W000051453 IMB.783
Yirdbards and friends The ghosts of old Imber Paul Darby, 2014, £5.00 CD Songs recorded at the church of St. Giles, Imber on 19 October 2013 and at Foxley Studios, Wiltshire, in 2014
