Clacton on the Tendring coast is home to one of our three volunteer groups. In this blog, chairman Roger Kennell introduces the group and their current project. The volunteer members of the Group, founded as a collaboration with the VCH Essex in 2002, have met monthly ever since to research on a range of localContinue reading “Clacton volunteer group update”
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Interwar Harwich – new draft history available!
To mark the upload of a draft chapter on Harwich 1919-1939, VCH Essex researcher Dr Andrew Senter has written a post about the growth of motor traffic, and attempts to accommodate it, as Harwich and Dovercourt went through a period of considerable modernisation between the wars. The increased use of the roads by private motorContinue reading “Interwar Harwich – new draft history available!”
Annual Symposium programme
Join us for an exciting in-person afternoon event on Saturday 4th October at the Galleywood Heritage Centre, exploring research about crime and society in Anglo-Saxon, early-modern and eighteenth-century Essex. There will be a series of four fascinating talks with a mid-afternoon break for tea and cake (included in the £15 ticket price), a booksale andContinue reading “Annual Symposium programme”
A difficult start to his new post? William Innes, vicar of Dovercourt cum Harwich (1619–1639)
In this blog, Herbert Eiden uncovers the tricky relations between William Innes and his parishioners in Harwich. Shortly after Thomas Drax, the incumbent vicar of Dovercourt cum Harwich, died in January 1619, the bishop of London presented William Innes on 18th March 1619 as perpetual vicar to the parish. Since the dissolution of Colne Priory,Continue reading “A difficult start to his new post? William Innes, vicar of Dovercourt cum Harwich (1619–1639)”
Victoria County History of Essex 