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Poltimore Garden History Forum, 15 Mar
The Poltimore Estate Research Society is hosting a Garden History Forum at Poltimore House on Saturday 15th March. Booking is required, but the Forum is free, and open to all. >Poltimore Estate...
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Book news: Art of the Devon Garden / A Wren-like Note
Some DHS-related book news: the author and historian Dr Todd Gray has a signing session for his The Art of the Devon Garden at Darts Farm, Topsham, on 30th November; and our website maintainer, Ray...
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New Exeter Cathedral Archive open
Following extensive refurbishment of the West Wing of the Bishop's Palace, Exeter, the Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives - home to works such as the 10th century Exeter Book of Anglo Saxon poetry...
View ArticleAxminster Heritage, 2 Apr
The next meeting of Axminster Historical Society will be a visit to Axminster Heritage on the evening of Wednesday April 2nd, featuring a short introduction to Axminster Heritage, followed by a talk on...
View ArticleStover School Local History Lectures, Mar-Apr
Stover School has sent us news of its six-week evening lecture series on the local history of the Newton Abbot area, starting with The Story of the Stover Canal, on Tuesday 18th March. >Stover...
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Parliament and Suffragettes, Exeter, 29 Apr
The University of Exeter is hosting a public lecture - Parliament and Suffragettes - on the evening of Tuesday, 29 April, with Dr Mari Takayanagi (Senior Archivist at the Parliamentary Archives). An...
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Exmouth Battery exposed
The Exmouth Journal recently reported that erosion of dunes in February's storms has exposed masonry from the old Exmouth Artillery Battery. >See Storms reveal Napoleonic sea defences on beach (Dave...
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Devon History Society Orchard Project: update
The Devon History Society Orchard Project is a DHS initiative to improve documentation of the decline of fruit growing in Devon - particularly East Devon - in the 19th century. It has nowcompleted...
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The diary list has been updated with some forthcoming talks. >Lympstone History SocietyWednesday 26th March, 7.30pm in Lympstone Village HallThe Art of the Devon Garden - An Illustrated History of...
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Halberton History Room: opening 5 Apr
The Halberton History Group has sent us news of the official opening of Halberton History Room in Halberton Village Hall on the morning of Saturday 5th April. >Next Saturday morning, the 5th, the...
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Building the Devonport Column
The Devonport Column has now been re-open to the public for nearly a year. John Foulston's The public buildings erected in the West of England as designed by John Foulston F.R.I.B.A. (1838) has...
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Future of Devon Heritage Services and the North Devon Record Office: an update
Further to news of plans to amalgamate regional heritage services: Devon County Council have now agreed that Devon Record Office / Heritage Services at Exeter will transfer to the new South West...
View ArticleWW1 facial injuries: research enquiry
Dr Marjorie Gehrhardt at the University of Exeter has contacted us with a research enquiry concerning the life of facially injured servicemen after World War One.I am a researcher at the University of...
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Devon Remembers
Devon Remembers is a four-year project to look at the effect of the World War One on the people of Devon, started this year to mark the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War....
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Poltimore: WW1 commemorative exhibition, 7-8 Jun
As part of the Cherishing Churchyards week, Poltimore House is hosting a two-day exhibition - Sat-Sun 7-8 Jun - to commemorate the Poltimore combatants of WW1, held in the Grade 1 listed Church of St....
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Ashburton Digital Archive
The Ashburton Digital Archive has been established as a means of providing open digital access to the Memorial Inscriptions (MIs) for St.Andrews Churchyard, Ashburton. The Project to computerise the...
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Exeter's Women and the Great War, 27 May
Exeter's Women & the Great War, a fundraising lecture by Dr Todd Gray, in support of SAFE, will take place at 12.00-1.00pm, at Exeter Guildhall on Tuesday 27th May. >The lecture is in aid of the...
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One Woman and her Vote, 12 May, Honiton
One Woman and her Vote, a memorial lecture on Juanita Maxwell Phillips, OBE, will be given by her biographer Dr Julia Neville in Honiton on Monday 12th May. "JMP", eleven times Mayor of Honiton,...
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Devon/Cornwall historic crime, 26 Sep
A diary event for later this year: Friends of the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary Heritage and Learning are hosting two illustrated talks about a historical case involving a suicide and three murders....
View ArticleHoniton History Society: 2014-2015 events
The Honiton History Society has sent us its calendar for 2014-2015. The next meeting is on Thursday 29th May: a talk ‘I K Brunel, Engineer’ by Brian Portch, Speaker for the SS Great Britain Trust....
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