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Welcome to Explore England’s Past

The Explore website provides free access to the local history materials produced by academics and volunteers as part of each county project. Resources include transcribed documents, images, text, and audio files that can be searched by location, theme, building type, time period, people and project.

Using the icons below and the navigation toolbar above, Explore England’s Past to discover the results from our ten counties. 

 



Latest 5 assets
Ledbury Market House (Herefordshire):
Ledbury c. 1940 Francis Frith postcard – added 25 August 2009
The Master’s House, St. Katherine’s Hospital (Herefordshire):
The Master’s House with tennis lawn, photograph c.1905 – added 25 August 2009
John Masefield (Herefordshire):
A sketch of The Knapp in 1931 – added 25 August 2009
Henley wills and inventories from 1711 (Oxfordshire):
Bartlett, Simon, cordwainer, will 1785 – added 19 August 2009
Henley wills and inventories 1671-90 (Oxfordshire):
Munday, Christopher, woodman, will – added 19 August 2009