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Cirencester Miscellany
The contents of previous publications in the
Miscellany series are listed below. “Cirencester
Miscellany” should be available in Copyright libraries
as it has an ISBN number. Back issues of all are held
in Gloucestershire Archives. Some copies of back
issues may be available from our editor at £5 each.
We are planning to republish most of these
publications here during the next few months. As
with the Newsletters, you can link to articles as they
become available by clicking the underscored titles
below.
Cirencester Miscellany 1
Published 1988 30pp plus cover. Edited by Linda
Viner
CAHS Reviewed by Linda Viner pp1-10
Cirencester’s Contribution to the Development
of Urban Archaeology The Croome Memorial
Lecture 1988 by Alan McWhirr pp11-16
New Approaches to the Management of our
Archaeological Resource by Timothy Darvill pp17-
24
Annual Report and Newsletter: Contents of
Volumes 1-30 by Linda Viner pp25-30
Cirencester Miscellany 2
Published 1988 22pp plus cover. Edited by Linda
Viner
As it was in a Cirencester Solicitor’s Office before
the Second World War by F J Petrie pp 1-7
A History of Cirencester Chess Club by David
Wilkinson pp 8-13
A Cirencester Connection in ‘Life with the Ladies
of Llangollen’ p14
The Cirencester Grain Riots of 1766 by Jeremy
Black pp15-18 Rebecca Powell- Cirencester’s
Greatest Benefactor: who was she? by Joyce
Barker pp 18-20
Every little helps: Newsletter 33 Dyer Street and
air raid shelters by Marjorie Klitz and Linda Viner
pp 20-21
The Canalisation of Gloucestershire: Cirencester
News in the Newcastle Press by Jeremy Black pp
22
Cirencester Miscellany 3
Published 1996 30pp plus cover, editor unknown
Joseph Howes: Cirencester's Fur Trader and
Explorer 1774-1852 by F J Petrie pp1-12
William Iveson Croome: his work for the care of
churches:[the edited Croome Memorial Lecture
1993] by Johnathan MacKechnie-Jarvis pp13-31
Cirencester Miscellany 4
Published 2000 32pp plus cover. Edited by Trevor
Allen, Michael Oakeshott and David Viner
Joyce Barker(1912-1966) by David Viner pp 2
The Early Churches of South Cerney by Professor
Michael Oakeshott pp3-8
John Roberts: a neglected 17th century
Cirencester biography by Dr. Brian Hawkins pp9-
10
Rebecca Powell 1643- 1722 by Margaret Wesley
pp11-18
A bellringer’s chair in Cirencester Parish Church
by Christopher Gillbert pp19-20
The Siddington Roundhouse by Hugh Conway-
Jones pp21-22
A Victorian Record of quarrying around
Cirencester by A.J Price pp23-24
Memories of Cirencester Mop Fair by Fred Petrie
pp28-30
Already a folk memory: Cirencester Excavation
Committee 1958-1997 by David Viner pp31-33
Future publication
The Society holds a considerable amount of
material on local turnpikes in and around
Cirencester, gathered during its Turnpike Study
Group’s researches and led by the late John
Hartland. Regular updates and several articles were
published in the Society’s Newsletters between 1969
and 2001. Now, in association with the Milestone
Society, a national charity formed in 2000, and
linked to the research work about to be undertaken
in the preparation of a Cirencester volume in the
Victoria County History [VCH] series, it is intended to
review this material and bring it together for
publication in some suitable form. For further
details, contact the Society’s editor.
Publications
One of the aims of the society is to publish
information concerning the past of Cirencester and
its environs. This has been achieved by publishing
Newsletters containing short articles and, recently,
short reports on talks held during the year (these
latter now online).
Longer studies have been published as the
Miscellany series. All publications to up to last year
have been lodged with the Gloucestershire Archives.
They can be found by quoting reference D10989,
and are open for research at the Archives.
All publications can be found using the site
menu above. We do have a small stock of back
numbers of both Newsletters and Miscellany. If we
have what you want, back issues of Newsletters are
£3 each and of Miscellany are £5 from our editor.
The Society is keen to have assistance for future
publications. If you feel up to editing or even
researching new material, our Editor will be pleased
to hear from you.
If you have an article suitable for publication in
short form about some aspect of local history we
may be able to help. Contact our editor
Siddington
Roundhouse
Miscellany 4