Mar 31, 2022
The Victoria County History (VCH) is well known for its detailed studies of individual localities, which assemble (in the words of one recent reviewer) ‘countless tiny parts to build a much larger whole’. This latest volume in the VCH Oxfordshire series...
Sep 21, 2021
Dr Joe Chick arms himself with ‘A History of English Places’, the App for mobile devices developed by the Victoria County History (VCH) with Aimer Media. This time, he invites us to join him in Reading to explore the monastic influences still visible in the Berkshire...
Feb 28, 2013
Studies of Home9 January 2013Abigail Williams (University of Oxford)Sighs and settees: recovering the lost history of reading aloud in the eighteenth century What did we do before television? Radio, of course! But what did we do before Radio? In the fifteenth...
