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The Victoria County History (VCH) was founded in 1899 and dedicated
to Queen Victoria. It was created to produce an encyclopaedic
national history in a series of volumes which cover, county by
county, and parish by parish, the general and detailed history of
England from earliest times to the present. Fourteen county sets
have been completed; work is in progress on a further thirteen. |
Oxfordshire
Church Green Books
Staffordshire
Darlington volumes
Gildas Books
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All volumes in print may be ordered from your bookseller or in case of difficulty from Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
When complete, the VCH will record the authentic factual history of
every city, town and village in England. All the information in the
VCH is compiled by professional historians, based in the counties
they are researching, who work systematically from original
historical documents. From this research they write the history of
the town, parish, or individual theme which is to appear in their
next county volume. The completed work is edited at the VCH's
central office, housed in the University of London's Institute of
Historical Research.
provide
a comprehensive history of each parish, but also a unique snapshot
of life as it was at the time the volume was published – VCH
Lancashire, volume II, for example, tells of the popular sport of
‘whippet racing' and the section covering industry provides a
comprehensive article on the ‘Sea Fisheries' of Lancashire (the
volume was published in 1908). Natural historians have used the
botany sections to find out what trees were growing in England a 100
years ago. 