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’ by Jeremy Black pp14 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