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Community Event to Collect Glove Maker's Stories
To coincide with Bideford Heritage Day on Saturday, 2 July 2016, The Burton Art Gallery & Museum will be hosting a free event to collect stories about the glove industry in north Devon for a new...
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‘Hand to Hand’ honouring North Devon’s Glove Workers
An innovative art exhibition celebrating one of North Devon’s most important industries opens on 11th June until 30th July 2016 at White Moose in Barnstaple. Once a world centre for glove making in the...
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Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War
Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War is a Heritage Lottery funded project run by the Maritime Archaeology Trust that seeks to record the 1,100 First World War shipwrecks off the south coast of...
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Holy Trinty Church, Torbryan.
Last week, the beautifully repaired medieval rood screen panels were lovingly returned to their rightful home of Holy Trinty Church in Torbryan.We are delighted to invite you to Holy Trinity to see the...
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The exciting new Wimborne History Festival on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th July is fast approaching. With living history encampments, thrilling battle re-enactments, dramatic skirmishes and...
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Record-Keeping Service of the Year
In May this year, the South West Heritage Trust was nominated by the Friends of Devon’s Archives, chaired by Dr Ian Mortimer, to receive the award for Record-Keeping Service of the Year. The award is...
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South West Heritage Trust On-Line Catalogue
A new on-line catalogue for Devon’s archives was launched during July, by the South West Heritage Trust, giving access to 500,000 catalogue entries. It can be viewed at:http://devon-cat.swheritage.org.uk/
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Dawlish Local History Group are joining forces with Dawlish Museum for another Dawlish History Day, a free exhibition at the Strand Centre, Dawlish on Saturday 10th September 10.30-4.30pm.
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Lympstone History Society are presenting a talk by Charlotte Coles, on Wednesday 21st September, 2016, starting at 7.30pm in the Methodist Hall, Chapel Road, Lympstone.Entry is £3.50 for LHS members,...
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Glove Stories
Glove Stories - is a series of short films about the glove industry in North Devon which resulted from the Glove Stories project - recording oral history about the glove industry in north...
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The Joyce Youings Memorial Lecture in Early Modern History 2016
18:30, Thursday, 3 November 2016Amory Moot Room, Exeter UniversityDr.Todd Gray MBE with speak on 'Carving Out the Renaissance in Devon'. The lecture will look at the development of Renaissance imagery...
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Devon History News, Issue 18, August 2016
The eighteenth issue of Devon History News, the newsletter of the Devon History Society, is now in print or available here:Devon History News 18, August 2016 (PDF format).
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Devon Parish Taxpayers, 1500 - 1650, Bere Ferrers to Chudleigh
The Devon & Cornwall Record Society are publishing the second volume, in a series, of parish rates of Devon.For further details and an order form see the flyer:
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Devon History Society - Primary School History Award
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Billy Down’s WW2 Secret Radio Station - Captain Hugh May RNJuly 1940: In threatened coastal areas a secret resistance organisation was training civilians as spies & saboteurs in case of Nazi...
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The Historical Association - Plymouth Branch 2016-17 Programme
Lecture Programme 2016 - 17Meetings are open to all, and are free for national or local members of the Historical Association. This is a joint programme in collaboration with the History Department at...
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