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Identity and the City: A History of Ethnic Minorities in Bristol 1000-2001
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Bristol has always been ethnically diverse but this aspect of its history has never before been systematically traced over such a long period. Research in Bristol charts 1001 years of the presence and experience of ethnic minorities in the city. How were they received, how did they survive and how did they affect the city’s sense of its own identity? |
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Slavery Trail
This is a town trail with a difference. It aims to show you what the handsome squares and quaint buildings of a pleasant English city have to do with one of the ugliest and most destructive events in human history… the Transatlantic slave trade.
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The Fishing Communities of Mousehole and Newlyn
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The Mousehole and Newlyn project focuses on the international trade of these ports from the medieval period to the present day. A favourite Cornish toast at the end of the 18th century was ‘fish, tin and copper’ and it was the first of these that brought prosperity to the most westerly Mount’s Bay ports.
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Religious Houses of Cornwall
Religion permeates Cornwall in visible forms. You can’t travel through the countryside or a town without seeing a church tower, chapel, ancient cross or holy well. The ‘Religious houses of Cornwall’ study tells the story of how Christianity came to Cornwall and how it developed there from about AD 500 up to the end of the Reformation in 1559. A complete history of religion in Cornwall, it will cover the location of religious sites, how religion was organised and who it involved.
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Origins of Sunderland
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‘Sunderland and its Origins: Monks to Mariners’ covers the history of the two ancient parishes, Monkwearmouth and Bishopwearmouth, up to the creation of the new Sunderland parish in 1719. |
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Townscape of Sunderland
The ‘Townscape of Sunderland’ project studies the physical development of Sunderland, from the earliest times to the present day. Also on this project site you will find background research on industries and other activities in Sunderland’s past.
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Bolsover: Castle and Townscape
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Bolsover today is a town of about 11,000 people. It lies just east of the M1 motorway between junctions 29 and 30 in north-east Derbyshire, close to the border with Nottinghamshire. The town occupies a prominent position on the edge of a magnesian limestone plateau overlooking the coal measures which make up most of this part of Derbyshire. |
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Hardwick Hall, Estate and Village
The project ‘The Hardwick Hall Estate’ is in its early stages and content will be displayed as soon as we gather it.
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The Settlement of Exmoor
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‘The Settlement of Exmoor’ study charts, for the first time, how the pattern of settlement developed on South Exmoor. It will span two counties, Somerset and Devon, and will introduce visitors to National Park to the special characteristics of its village centres and, through a volunteer survey, to a range of its farmsteads. |
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Ledbury
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The project is in two parts. One part examines life in Ledbury from the mid-sixteenth to the late-twentieth century. It explores how Ledbury has survived as a market town and its close relationship with the surrounding countryside. The second part (currently being researched) examines the origins and early history of Ledbury and district. Information and resources created during both phases of teh research project will be continually added to this site. |
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People and Work in the Lower Medway Valley 1750 – 1900
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‘People and Work in the Lower Medway Valley 1750 – 1900’ looks at work, livelihood, leisure and consumption, with particular focus on the development of a variety of industries – e.g. maritime, paper making, agriculture, brickmaking and cement production. These were amongst the most important industries in the valley and the project will chart some of the physical structures they have left behind. |
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Buildings and People of Burford
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Burford is a small former market town on the edge of the Cotswolds – its streets lined with a remarkable variety of stone and timber buildings, and with a magnificent medieval church. The EPE project is about the town as visitors experience it: its extraordinary buildings, and the complex network of streets, lanes, and house-plots which underlie it. |
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The Origins and Growth of Henley on Thames
Long before its famous Regatta – established only in the 1830s – Henley was closely connected with the River Thames. In the Middle Ages it became London’s most important source of grain, the point where foodstuffs travelling downstream were transferred from road to river, and where luxury items travelling the opposite way were transferred back to road.
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Parham: an Elizabethan House and its Restoration
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Research on Parham House centres on the original Elizabethan house built after 1577 and its restoration by its new and devoted owners, Clive and Alicia Pearson, from the 1920s onwards. |
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Codford: Change and Community in a Wiltshire Village
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‘Codford: Wool and War in Wiltshire’ researches how a small settlement on the edge of Salisbury Plain has evolved, why its landscape and buildings look as they do, and how its people, their livelihoods and social connections have made it what it is. |
