Newsletter Spring 2017

Gloucestershire Heritage Hub

Gloucestershire Local History Association

About Gloucestershire Local History Association

Gloucestershire Local History Association (GLHA) is a voluntary organisation of around 50 local history groups across Gloucestershire.  We aim to promote local history throughout the county and to encourage as many people as possible to become involved with the history of where they live.  You can discover more about us at gloshistory.org.uk  Our activities include an annual Summer meeting, hosted by one of our member organisations.  This year's event will be in Tewkesbury on the afternoon of 24 June 2017 and Tewkesbury Historical Society will be our host. It will begin in Tewkesbury’s historic Old Baptist Chapel, which recently benefited from Heritage Lottery funding, and there will be an opportunity to see a newly-built ‘interactive’ scale model, showing how the Chapel changed form between the 1500s and the 1970s. Please come along if you're interested - you can download our event programme and a booking form here - we'd be pleased to welcome you.  Meantime, you can have a sneaky peek at some images of the scale model if you click on the 'Tewkesbury Old Baptist Chapel' link in the 'In this section' box at the far right of this page. 

GLHA Tewkesbury HS Bulletin front cover  

Featuring Tewkesbury Local History Society, one of GLHA's member organisations              

Tewkesbury Historical Society was formed in 1991, to fill a vacuum in a historical town which had no historical society.  Besides the usual monthly meetings of such societies, members are involved in researching the town’s history and are keen to make this important information accessible in both written and digital media. 

With this in mind, the Society publishes an annual Bulletin of Research which, over the period, has merited two winners and nineteen members short-listed for the Jerrard Award.          

It has also marked significant milestones, such as the 50th Anniversary of the loss of the town's railway in 1961, and published biographies of the citizens killed in both World Wars.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

                              

Tewkesbury Local History Society sees its website, ths.freeuk.com, as an increasingly important method of communication.  Recently, it also made its Woodard Digital Database of Local History, the outcome of a 25 year project, available to members online via Google Drive.

The Society is looking forward to welcoming the county’s historical enthusiasts to this year's Gloucestershire Local History Association Summer meeting, which it is hosting for the second time. David Elder, author of THS Publication 10, Literary Tewkesbury will be leading one of the guided tours. 

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