The former board school at Stainsby is in the news at the moment as the National Trust seeks to sell the property. But what is its history? In this blog we’ll take a brief look. Our Hardwick: a great house and its estate paperback, published in 2009 (out of print but available in local libraries), …
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The ‘Christ Church (Stonegravels) Workhouse and Pauper Grave Project’ will be the subject of a new book to be published in July. The publication is to be marked by an exhibition from Monday 11 to Monday 18 July in Chesterfield Library, 11 am to 3 pm (closed Sunday). Many hours of research have gone into …
Colleagues at our national office in London have done a great job in summarising what we do. We aim to produce a history of every place in England, from the earliest times to the ever-moving now, in a consistent form including accounts of landscape and settlement, with buildings and archaeology. Our histories include histories of …
The evening of the 15 June, saw a successful launch for our new book on the history of Hasland. Launched at the Devonshire Arms in the village, it was a capacity audience of over 60 people who attended the event. Our County Editor, Philip Riden, explained about what VCH does and gave a brief overview …
No apologies for advertising our nee Hasland book’s launch on 15 June, in this blog. Pop along to see us at the Devonshire Arms, Hasland, starting at 7.30pm. There’s no admission fee and you’ll be able to hear our county editor Philip Riden, give a short account of the book and the formerly extensive parish …
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Our colleagues at our VCH central office at the Institute of Historical Research remind us that Royal Jubilees have a special place in the history of our project. The Victoria County History was dedicated to Queen Victoria and was intended as a lasting celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. On Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, in …
If you’ve been following us recently you will know that we’re about to publish our new book on the history of Hasland. It’s got a nice colour picture on the front but of what? In fact, it’s of Spital House, which stood on the east side of Spital Lane about midway between the junctions with …
If you are interested in finding out more about family history this might be a date for your diary. VCH will also be attending.
In this blog we’ll look at one of the unfortunate but less obvious results of the demise of Eyres of Chesterfield – the disappearance of its company history on their now removed website. But thanks to the Internet Archive at least part of the site has been preserved. This isn’t to detract from the problems …
Our new Hasland VCH spin-off book is to be published at a launch event on the evening of 15 June at the Devonshire Arms, Hasland. The book will be the first authoritative account of this large parish. Until 19th-century boundary changes, the township (later civil parish) of Hasland (near Chesterfield) included not just what people …
The final part of our concise overview of the Chesterfield tube works is presented in this blog. It’s an edited version from our forthcoming VCH spin-off book on Hasland, with some new information added about the concern’s more recent years. The1950s saw a programme of programme of modernisation and expansion. In 1950 a new factory …
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