This blog post was written by Dr Ruth Slatter and Dr Adam Chapman, Co-General Editors of the VCH.   Following the announcement of four new VCH projects in 2025, in this blog post Ruth Slatter and Adam...

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Political education event with Dr Jonathan Healey (Kellog College), followed by social. All welcome, free of charge.

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

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The great vale of Taunton Deane fills the space between west Somerset's three ranges of hills: the Brendons in the west, the Quantocks in the east and the Blackdowns in the south.

Following on from yesterday’s account of the mass squatting of Duchess of Bedford House and other buildings across central London in September 1946, here’s an article published at the t…

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Draft text for VCH Dorset

Draft text for VCH Dorset

The great vale of Taunton Deane fills the space between west Somerset's three ranges of hills: the Brendons in the west, the Quantocks in the east and the Blackdowns in the south.

The annual VCH Essex conference

This article explores the epistolary activism of Richard Oastler (1791–1861). In his campaigning for the regulation of factory labour, abolition of child labour, and opposition to the New Poor Law,...