Issue 15 features: * Tracing the tiger: Paul Matthews looks at the many mind altering drugs our ancestors might have fallen prey to * Lest we forget...: The WW1 centenary begins * Family reflections: Ruth Symes on the history of mirrors * Were they in India?: A useful research avenue to explore * From store to war: The sad fate of many Harrods staff in WW1 * Graphic conflict: WW1 explored through infographics * Finding the freemasons: Jill Morris enters a secret world * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on sunglasses * What’s on * Books * Place in focus: Wiltshire More Info
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* The secret worshippers: Stuart A. Raymond explores researching Catholic recusants through his detailed study of a parish in Wiltshire * More than just scrawls on walls: Is graffiti a mark of disrespect or social comment? Denise Bates looks at its long history * Tales of the Cartaret dynasty: Nick Thorne follows up a chance finding in the tithe records, leading him to the story of a Royalist privateer commemorated in America * The child-snatchers: Playing to our insecurities both as children and parents, kidnapping remains a rare but particularly scary crime, writes Nell Darby * Motherhood and madness in the Victorian era: Lorraine Schofield explores the gap between the ideal of womanhood in the 19th century and the reality of mental illness * History in the details: Railway staff uniforms More Info
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A4 softback. 56 pages There were several Wiltshire county coroners during the period from 1815 to 1858 and it is hoped that most of them have been identified as to their place of abode [see Appendix 1]. Coroners submitted their bills of expenses to the county treasurer for mileage undertaken to take an inquisition upon notification of a sudden or suspicious death which had happened in their par...More Info
Indexed transcript from original records held at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre of all those who joined Wiltshire Constabulary between 1839 and 1927. At 535 pages, this is our largest single publication. The product is available as a download.
Tithes were originally payments made in kind to the clergy of the parish to support the church and its incumbent. By the nineteenth century, there was a hodge-podge of arrangements for paying this tax to the church. “An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales" (more commonly known as “The Tithe Commutation Act”) was passed in 1836 to convert in-kind payments to monetary paymen...More Info
Land Tax started in 1692 and remained until the mid 20th century. Between 1780-1832 copies were required to be sent to the Clerk of the Peace of each county to be used to establish the right of those eligible to vote in parliamentary elections (not everyone paying land tax had that right). Thus returns for those years are generally complete whereas before and after very few have survived. The retu...More Info
Softback. 348 pages The information in this publication has been taken from the apprenticeship indentures, for boys and girls, most of which are found in the parish collections in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. Numbers of indentures in the parishes vary from 1,754 for Bradford on Avon to just one for Lydiard Millicent but this may not indicate the total apprenticed since the indentures m...More Info