The Maurice Bond Lecture 2024 Placing Archives
The Victoria County History and Archival Landscapes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21291883 |
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| Authors | Adam Chapman (0000-0002-1704-0979, ADAM CHAPMAN is a lecturer in medieval history and General Editor of the Victoria County History based at the Institute of Historical Research. He would like to extend his thanks to the Chair and Committee of the British Records Association for the invitation. He would also like to thank his present and past colleagues in the VCH, both within the Central Office and around the country, for providing the material that this lecture draws upon. He is grateful to his colleagues in the IHR and, especially Zoë Kar, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 105-121 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archives The Journal of the British Records Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9535 • E-ISSN: 2516-8975 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/archives.2025.18 |
| OpenAlex | W7167842688 |
| Language | EN |
This paper was delivered as the 2024 Maurice Bond Lecture. It explores the place of the Victoria County History in the landscape of English archives over the last 125 years. It examines the ways in which historians working for the project have helped establish and interact with the archives they use and the ways in which changing archival landscapes have influenced its work. The Victoria County History (strictly, the Victoria History of the Counties of England), better known as the VCH, is the longest-lived and most ambitious local history project yet devised. Founded in 1899, the project uses primary, archival sources to produce histories of place from the earliest point of record to the ever-moving now. Today it is active in over 20 counties and two of the historic Ridings of Yorkshire. It has published 250 of its ‘Big Red Books’ and in the last decade and a half around 40 shorter histories of individual places and areas in England, the work of professional and volunteer historians
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