News Archive
Covid-19 Impacts
The ongoing Coronavirus pandemic has caused some changes for the Wiltshire Record Society. We have cancelled our 2020 AGM, though we are hopeful that we may be able to reschedule it for later this year. Volume 73, The Parish Registers of Thomas Rockford, 1561-1633, marked our first venture into print […]
Volume 71 forthcoming
Volume 71 in our series, The Letters of Henry Hoare, 1760–1781, will be published later this year. The letters, from Henry Hoare to his son-in-law, Lord Bruce, wife and children attest his devotion and generosity towards the family. They contain nuggets about the garden and house at Stourhead and permit […]
2018 AGM
The 2018 AGM will take place at 2:30pm on Saturday 23rd June at the Laverton Institute in Westbury. Travel information and contact details are available on the Laverton’s website. The AGM itself will be short (approximately 30 minutes), after which committee member Steve Hobbs will give a short, illustrated talk […]
2017 AGM
The Society’s AGM for 2017 will take place at Salisbury Museum in The Close, on Saturday June 17th at 2:30pm. Travel details for Salisbury can be found on the Museum’s website. There will be a short meeting (approximately 30 minutes) whilst we deal with the business of the AGM. This […]
Volume 70 forthcoming
Volume 70 in our series, The Account Books and Papers of Everard and Ann Arundell of Ashcombe and Salisbury, 1745-1798, will be published in Autumn 2017. The survival of a deal of material including accounts, correspondence, and medicinal recipes, provide a detailed picture of life in the household of a […]
Volume 69 forthcoming
Volume 69 in our series, The Churchwardens’ Accounts of St Mary, Devizes, 1633-89, will be published in June 2016. The period covered by these accounts coincides with a tumultuous episode in the ecclesiastical history of England, between the translation of William Laud to the archbishopric of Canterbury and the passing […]
2016 AGM
The Society’s AGM for 2016 will take place at St Mary’s Church, Devizes, on Saturday 25 June, at 2:30 pm. Travel and parking details for Devizes are available from the local tourism partnership. There will be a short meeting (max. 30 minutes) whilst we deal with the business of the […]
Volume 67 published
Volume 67 in our series, The Quarter Sessions Order Book, 1642-1654, was published in late 2014. A transcription of the first of a long order books of the Wiltshire Quarter Sessions, it shows how the county was governed at a local level through the tumultuous period of the Civil War […]
General Editors
At the recent meeting of the committee of the Society, Dr Virginia Bainbridge offered her resignation as joint General Editor. Virginia has been editor of the Society’s publications since she succeeded John Chandler to the role in 2007, during which time she has overseen the publication of seven volumes. She […]
2014 AGM
The Society’s AGM for 2014 will take place at the Salisbury Quaker Meeting House, 51 Wilton Road, Salisbury on Saturday 14 June, at 2:30 pm. There is a Park & Ride service from Wilton that stops outside the law courts, which are a few minutes from the venue. The Meeting […]