VCH Staffordshire

VCH Staffordshire: part of the Victoria County Histories of England

[Dr Andrew Sargent @DrASargent]

The Ranulf Hidden Society has taken over the running of Keele's Latin and Palaeography Summer School this year! The school runs 14th-18th July. For more info see https://t.co/u6bN0O3AfB

[Dr Andrew Sargent @DrASargent]

@KeeleUniversity's Latin and Palaeography Summer School is taking bookings! Take introductory or advanced classes, reading #medieval documents in #Latin or #AngloNorman French. More info at: https://t.co/sKiiq6T1o5 Booking closes 19 July!

[Victoria County History @VCH_London]

1/10 2024 marks 125 years of the @VCH_London! The VCH is a national network of place-based research, continuing its original aim of writing a detailed history of every place in England from earliest times to now. Here is a 🧵 about the project for #LocalAndCommunityHistoryMonth

[Staffordshire Record Society @record_society]

Launch and celebration for our volume in honour of Nigel Tringham @KeeleHistory tonight. Nigel here with the editors @mblake500 @DrASargent @AlannahTomkins @IanAtherton9

[StaffsStokeHistory @ArchandHeritage]

Join us for our free online Staffordshire History Day on Saturday 13 May 2023 & discover the past of this fascinating county @StaffsLibraries @KeeleUniversity @HeritageFundM_E @CWMHFriends
https://t.co/meEac8Ba42

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Don’t want to watch GB News? Don’t worry, you can watch @MarinaPurkiss destroy Jacob Rees Mogg here 👇🏼

This is actually the closest I’ve ever come to pitying him.

Ps: Wonder if he supports fracking due to his alleged financial interests in the fossil fuel industry via Odey?

[Keele History @KeeleHistory]

Keele's 45th Latin and Palaeography Summer School is taking bookings! Delivered online or in-situ, across a range of skill levels, please see the website for more details. Bursaries are available, but please hurry - booking closes on 17th July! https://t.co/IaOxYNYKJG

[Staffs Place-Names @StaffsPNProject]

'dieulencres' (1517)
Dieulacres a Cistercian foundation north of Leek founded 1214.
When Ranulph de Blundeville told his wife Clemence of his foundation 'she exclaimed in French "Deux encres" (May God grant it increase)'
@VCH_Staffs via @bho_history
see
https://t.co/4r5eJCpnrS

[Victoria County History @VCH_London]

The launch of the latest @VCH_Staffs volume on Saturday marks the culmination of many years hard work for Nigel - whose citation for the MBE notes not only his work for VCH (a first), but 'services to Local History. You can learn more about the book here:

https://t.co/5PmCS28jw8

[Dr. Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson]

Staffordshire folks may like this one: here's Clarice Cliff at home, with her pa, ma & six siblings. The daughters are all working, in four different potteries. Classic Stoke on Trent employment patterns for this timeframe #1921Census #ClariceCliff #stokeontrent

[StaffsStokeHistory @ArchandHeritage]

Join us for the annual VCH Study Day on Saturday 30 October. Our theme is 'For the Benefit of the Poor': Welfare provision in Staffordshire towns, 1650-1950'. This year the day will take place online. Find out more https://t.co/3rX3eYsUhy

[StaffsStokeHistory @ArchandHeritage]

We've been welcoming our volunteer groups back to Staffordshire Record Office! Our first group was the @VCH_Staffs group, lead by Andrew Sargent. More groups will be coming back over the coming weeks and it’s been lovely to see familiar faces and meet new ones again. #volunteers

[James Wright @jpwarchaeology]

According to a recent press story, the fabled treasures of the Knights Templar are stashed in tunnels beneath a manor house near Burton-upon-Trent. This tale was utterly irresistible so I went and looked at the detail. My piece here...
https://t.co/i4Eb26tSs4

[VCH Staffordshire @VCH_Staffs]

*NEW POST!* You've met Inspector Kidney - are you ready for Inspector Blood? One of our volunteers takes a closer look at some of the police officers in and around Uttoxeter in 1851: https://t.co/SRsAuZmfre

[Keele History @KeeleHistory]

*ANNOUNCEMENT!* Keele's 44th Latin and Palaeography Summer School is now open for booking. Online tuition, 2-6 August, provides essential professional training to students, archivists and local historians. Please visit the website for more information: https://t.co/TD6U5eGWD7

[VCH Staffordshire @VCH_Staffs]

*ALL ABOARD FOR OUT NEW POST!* One of our volunteers investigates the railway workers of Uttoxeter in 1851, at the height of the railway-building boom: https://t.co/6gkYCIWh6F

[VCH Staffordshire @VCH_Staffs]

*INSPECTOR KIDNEY CALLS!* New blog post by one of our volunteers about James Kidney, a #policeman in mid 19th-century #Uttoxeter (in which his distinctive name is explained!). https://t.co/DhmXMyCIEv

[VCH Staffordshire @VCH_Staffs]

*NEW BLOG POST!* One of our volunteers explores the career of Jonathan Taft, a #ChelseaPensioner, who was living in #Uttoxeter in 1851 with his Irish wife Mary. https://t.co/qACAWuMILo

[VCH Staffordshire @VCH_Staffs]

*NEW BLOG POST!* The status and residence of the over-70s in mid 19th-century Uttoxeter is explored by one of our volunteers... https://t.co/5YQx0VO0tW

[VCH Staffordshire @VCH_Staffs]

*NEW BLOG POST* One of our volunteers has written about Irish people living in #Uttoxeter in 1851, and has looked at the Cunningham family, who probably moved there in the wake of the potato famine in #Ireland. https://t.co/FRe2x291yK