The collaborative and volunteer-led process of researching and writing the VCH short Southend, Victorian Town and Resort
In this blog post, Ken Crowe, Chairman of the Essex Victoria County History Trust and editor of the newest VCH Short ‘Southend, Victorian Town and Resort’, reflects on the collaborative volunteer-led process of researching and writing this book. How did it all...
VCH Ghost Story
With the nights drawing in, it’s the season for storytelling. This curious and disconcerting letter was found recently in the archive of the Victoria County History of England (addressed to then-General Editor, William Page) and is published here for the first time....
Digitising Red Books: the rigours and rewards of increasing online access to Victoria County History volumes (Part 2)
In this second of two blog posts, Anne-Marie Harvatt, VCH Digitisation Summer Intern 2024, reflects on the challenges and potentials of digitising historical sources. As discussed in the earlier of these posts, digitising a VCH Big Red Book is far from straightforward...
Digitising Red Books: the rigours and rewards of increasing online access to Victoria County History volumes (Part 1)
In this blog post, Anne-Marie Harvatt, VCH Digitisation Summer Intern 2024, reflects on the process of digitising VCH volumes for British History Online. My time as an intern at the IHR, working on one small part of the process of preparing Victoria County...