Worcestershire Local History Forum, News Update, June 2017
Awards and Photographic Competitions 2017
Please can you remind your members that there is still time to send in entries for the Forum Awards and Forum Photographic competitions. The closing date for both competitions is 31 July. Details and application forms can be found on the Forum's website - www.wlhf.org.uk . The Photographic Competition's theme is 'windows'. The title is: A Window on Worcestershire, and there are plenty out there.
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Day School 2017
This year the Day School is being hosted by Malvern Civic Society and takes place at the Eden Centre, Grovewood Road, off Townsend Way, Malvern WR14 1GD. Details regarding tickets and timings can be found on www.wlhf.org.uk. The theme this year is Eminent Victorians in Worcestershire. As usual, Forum member societies can book a table for display purposes free of charge. If you would like to highlight your society please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to reserve a table.
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Heritage Talk at Selly Manor
The Friends Ambulance Unit
7pm, Thursday, 8 June 2017
Paul Handford’s fascinating talk focuses on the experiences of those individuals, who for conscience and other reasons, chose to serve in the non-combatant Friends’ Ambulance Unit during WW1.
The talk will explore the evolution of the Unit, its main areas of work and the impact conscription had on those involved. Paul will also reflect on Laurence Cadbury’s service with the Unit and on the members who lost their lives. This fascinating talk is supported by many original books, documents and photographs from Paul’s private collection.
Booking is strongly recommended. t: 0121 472 0199 e: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
£5 per person - includes tea and coffee as well as a private viewing of Selly Manor and its wonderful collection.
Selly Manor, Maple Road, Bournville, Birmingham, B30 2AE
Daniel Callicott
Museum Manager
Direct Dial:0121 667 1091
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Publishing
The Forum has been contacted by Nick Grant of Amberley Publishing Ltd, Stroud who is looking for someone to write a book on Worcester to publish. Nick says: We have a number of popular series, some of which are based on historical photographs or postcards, including our successful ‘From Old Photographs’, ‘Postcard Collection’ and ‘At Work’ series, but others such as our ‘Secret’ or ’In 50 Buildings’ series are based on the author’s photographs. If any of these are of potential interest I’d be happy to send more information and to discuss it with you in more detail.
Nick Grant
Commissioning Editor, Local History
Amberley Publishing Ltd,The Hill, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 4EP
Tel: 01453 847810
Fax: 01453 847820
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This Worcestershire Historical Society Prize for Worcestershire History
The Worcestershire Historical Society is to award a prize of £100 for the best essay on Worcestershire history in 2017. Any aspect of the history of the county or diocese of Worcester can be covered or places within their boundaries.
The terms of the prize are that the essay should normally be of about 10,000 to 12,000 words and should be based on research, and should not have been published. The essay might have been submitted as a dissertation as part of a degree, but might also have been written by a local historian unconnected with a university.
Queries about the choice of subject and procedure for entry can be addressed to Professor Christopher Dyer, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The essays should be submitted by 31 December 2017 in paper form to the Worcestershire Historical Society, The Hive, Sawmill Walk, The Butts, Worcester WR1 3PB and in electronic form to Mrs Sue Redding at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Manorial Document Register
Worcestershire Archives and Archaeology Service has recently completed a project, funded by the National Archives, to update, correct and computerise the Manorial Documents Register for Worcestershire and Herefordshire.
The Manorial Documents Register is the official register of manorial documents for England and Wales, containing information about the nature and location of surviving documents. Begun in the 1920s, The National Archives now runs a long-term project to computerise it on a county-by-county basis. This means that more details and accurate information about these fascinating and underused documents will be available to a much wider audience.
Worcestershire is now available online and Herefordshire will be available later this year.
To search the database, go to The National Archives' Manorial Documents Register website: http://discovery. nationalarchives.gov.uk/manor- search. Information on the background of the Register, and how to locate and use manorial documents, is also available on the website.
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Best wishes
Ruth Casemore, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.