8 results for author: Michael Edwards
“Keeping the Memory Green”, British Records Association Annual Conference – 29 November 2016
The 2016 Annual Conference of the BRA will be held jointly this year with The Gardens Trust: ‘ ”Keeping the memory green”: records of small gardens’. It will take place at the Linnean Society, Piccadilly, on Tuesday, 29 November 2016. More details will be available soon on our ...
A Report on the 2015 BRA Annual Conference: ‘Archives and Sport’
THE BRA ANNUAL CONFERENCE: “‘In a League of their own’: Archives of the History of British Sport and Physical Recreation”
The BRA Annual Conference took place on 26th November 2015 at Swedenborg House, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1. Around 40 participants were treated to a fascinating selection of papers about different aspects of the history of British sport.
Before the proceedings began, Julia Sheppard, BRA Chair, gave a brief report about the EGM and AGM the previous week, and in particular the momentous vote at the EGM, by a substantial majority, for the BRA to maintain its independent existence.
The first speaker, Eleanor Hoare, Eton ...
Article abstracts for ARCHIVES, Volume XL: Numbers 128-9
David X. Carpenter, THE 'LOST VOLUME' OF THE COWCHER BOOKS OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER: THE INVENTION OF A MANUSCRIPT
The existence of a lost third volume of the Great Cowcher books of the Duchy of Lancaster was first postulated in the early 19th century. This article traces the historiography associated with the 'lost' volume and considers the origins of the various charters it was supposed to contain, concluding that a series of errors lent plausibility to an otherwise untenable theory. It identifies the origins and location of the charters supposedly contained in the phantom volume.
Thomas W. Smith, REVIEW ARTICLE: ENGLISH EPISCOPAL ...