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The Regional Historian Issue No 13 (PDF) 10785 RegHistorian_issue13 5/26/05 5:25 PM Page 1 RHCRHC REGIONAL HISTORY CENTRE The Regional Historian The Newsletter of the Regional History Centre, at the UWE, Bristol Remembering Mary Rudge: Bristol’s Victorian Chess Champion Bristol’s new museum…. Little Wales beyond the Severn…. The killing of Henry Murray…. Sir Richard Berkeley…. Woodtaking and customary practice in Wiltshire…. Bath and the Keppel affair…. John Thelwall’s grave…. PLUS News, Reviews and Letters http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/regionalhistory Graphic Design Team 10785 UWE, BRISTOL F.5.05 Printing & Stationery Services Issue No. 13 Spring/Summer 2005 10785 RegHistorian_issue13 5/26/05 5:25 PM Page 3 The first international women’s chess tournament, held in London in 1897. Bristol’s Mary Rudge won the event. 10785 RegHistorian_issue13 5/26/05 5:25 PM Page 1 REGIONALRHCRH HISTORYC CENTRE The Regional Historian Issue No. 13 Spring/Summer 2005 Contents Editorial and news 2 The museum of Bristol and its public 6 Madge Dresser Little Wales beyond the Severn? 8 The Welsh in early Tudor Bristol Peter Fleming The man who’d have blood for his supper: 11 the killing of Henry Murray. Steve Poole Sir Richard Berkeley: an Elizabethan career 15 Tony Nott Woodtaking and customary practice: 19 William Hunt’s justices notebook, 1744 - 49 Carl Griffin ‘A silly ridiculous Jack in Office’: 25 Bath's town clerk and the Keppel affair, 1779 Trevor Fawcett Sites of memory and neglect: 29 John Thelwall and the art of dying quietly Steve Poole Mary Rudge: Bristol's world chess champion 33 John Richards Learning to live with ‘natural wonders’: 38 the forgotten history of Cheddar Gorge Steve Poole Reviews 40 Letters 46 1 10785 RegHistorian_issue13 5/26/05 5:25 PM Page 2 Editorial and News Editorial and News Round-up UWE to write pioneering history In this edition of the Regional Historian you’ll find a typically diverse of Bristol ethnic minorities Partnership with the VCH in Wiltshire and interesting selection of articles. UWE’s School of History has been awarded In addition to the Immigrants and Minorities project, UWE has also been Along with news of UWE’s exciting £120,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund as making great progress with its association with the VCH in Wiltshire. County Immigrants and Minorities project, part of a £3.3 million project called editor Virginia Bainbridge explains: The successful conclusion of negotiations to and a call for the new museum of ‘England’s Past for Everyone’, co-ordinated by incorporate the Victoria County History of Wiltshire into UWE HLSS represents a Bristol to make the most of the the University of London’s Victoria County major achievement for the future of public history. This important local history current public appetite for history, History Project, writes Peter Fleming. UWE’s research project came to the attention of Madge Dresser and Peter Fleming, there are articles here covering contribution will be a history of immigration through their RHC activities. The VCH team consists of Douglas Crowley, County everything from the political career of in Bristol from medieval times to the end of Editor, and Virginia Bainbridge, Assistant Editor, whose appointment was made the Tudor magnate, Sir Richard the twentieth century, provisionally titled possible through UWE funding. The VCH was started in 1899 and dedicated to Berkeley, to the no less remarkable ‘Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in Bristol Queen Victoria. It aims to provide a history of each parish and town in England sporting career of nineteenth century c1000 – 2000’. This will focus on the themes from original sources. So far about half the country has been covered. Groups Bristol chess champion, Mary Rudge. of ethnic diversity and civic identity. Nine of parish histories are published together in volumes and are now also Two articles look at some of the less other volumes dealing with histories of other available at www.englandpast.net and www.british-history.ac.uk The VCH is familiar historical issues of urban localities are planned throughout the an invaluable resource for local and family historians and for academic ethnicity and remind us of the country, but the Bristol project is the only researchers. enormous impact cultural diversity has one to look at ethnicity. had upon the development of the Douglas and Virginia are currently completing the last few histories for volume ‘second city’; first Tudor citizens who The two- year project will begin in June 2005, XVIII in the Wiltshire series, covering Cricklade and surrounding parishes. discovered themselves in ‘little Wales and will be led by Madge Dresser and Peter Virginia and Peter Fleming have also applied for AHRB funding for a three-year beyond the Severn’, and then some of Fleming of UWE’s Regional History Centre. project on the history of Chippenham 1800 – 2000. This will involve UWE their nineteenth century successors An expert on medieval England's Jewish academics and local history groups and will be modelled on a similar VCH who clashed tragically with community, Joe Hillaby, will produce a Wiltshire project on the village of Codford. Part of this research, ‘Travelling Portuguese sailors at a Marsh Street chapter on Jews and other ethnic minorities through Codford’ is available at www.historyfootsteps.net together with inn in 1810. Elsewhere we find an in Bristol before 1300. As part of the project, UWE’s ‘Bristol Slavery Trail’. VCH Wiltshire has its own website at eighteenth century JP dispensing an interactive website will be set up to www.wiltshirepast.net summary justice and exercising the encourage input from members of the public. finer arts of social arbitration as he Incorporation into UWE has been a major boost to VCH Wiltshire, enabling the mediates in cases of wood-stealing in The researchers are looking forward to completion of volume XVIII and the start of volume XIX, to be centred on rural Wiltshire, while in Bath we find receiving information and oral histories from Longleat. With further funding for the last few volumes, it is now a real a Town Clerk in hot water with the the public, and are looking for volunteers to possibility that the County series will be completed. townsfolk over his imperious attitude help research and document the findings. to the people’s favourite, Admiral They are hoping to chart the relationship Keppel; and the last resting place of a between Bristol’s majority population and prominent reformer falling slowly into those from ethnic minority groups during the News from the RHC on-line team disrepair. We like to think it’s a pretty past millennium; to find out what coping Women and Philanthropy in Bristol, 1870 - 1920 good mix. But if you feel it doesn’t strategies the different groups used to quite match some of your own survive; and to consider the way in which We are pleased to announce that we will interests and organisational affiliations. historical interests, why not write us Bristol’s particular experience has been be making the results of this long-running We hope these resources will be a useful an article? We seek to cover all shaped by national and global factors. RHC project available to a wider audience addition to the RHC site and that local periods of history and our regional by the end of the summer. There will be historians may be able to supply us with interest is in the South Western The Regional Historian will carry regular two main forms of data attached to the additional information in order to expand counties of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, reports on the progress of the project, and Regional History Centre Website at this resource still further. If you can help Dorset, Somerset and Devon. All the project team can be contacted through http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/Regionhistor please contact [email protected] contributions to the Regional the Regional History Centre website. y/index.htm. The first will be in the shape or [email protected] Historian are considered for of interactive web pages giving publication, but you might like to biographical information and images of As well as storing downloadable versions contact the editor in advance at some of the key women in Bristol of past issues of the RH, the Centre’s [email protected] philanthropic networks. webpages also host a diary page for You’ll find details of the copy date for forthcoming talks, workshops, RH14 on P4. The second will be a searchable database conferences and other activities run by containing information on a much larger record offices and history societies number of women philanthropists in around the region. If you’d like us to post Bristol. Users will be able to search the news of any events you are organising on database under categories such as career, these pages, please e-mail us and we’ll be religion, education, family, politics, glad to include them. 2 3 10785 RegHistorian_issue13 5/26/05 5:25 PM Page 4 Editorial and News Round-up Seminar series 2004-5 Regional historians on tour! The Regional History Centre launched a new Port Histories: fortnightly research seminar series in October annual conference 2005 2005, with papers covering every period in This year’s RHC day conference takes the region’s history and confirming the place on September 17th 2005. Under Centre’s growing interest in all the counties the title Port Histories, the conference of the South West. Speakers were Moira looks at the social, cultural and Martin (women’s philanthropic networks in Photo: Joachim Eibach economic life of port communities in Bristol), Peter Fleming (civic historiographies British history and seeks to draw in Bristol and Coventry), Carl Griffin (popular parallels and contrasts between the protest and the politics of timber in Wiltshire lived experience of people in and Dorset), Michael Hicks (medieval maritime towns across the country landholdings in Southern England), Steve and across the ages.
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