The Devon Historian, Volume 34 (April 1987)

Second Hand. Good condition. Some minor wear.

Journal of the Devon History Society.

Contents:

  • Notices
  • French prisoners-of-war on parole in Devon 1750?1815
  • The North Devon Athenaeum
  • Mass walkout by doctors
  • Billiards
  • The origin of the family name of Western in Devon
  • Popular impressions of Plymouth: picture postcards and their messages 1900 to 1930
  • Charles II in two places at once
  • Common Ground and the Parish Maps Project
  • Devon birth anniversaries, compiled by Adrian Reed & John Ryton
  • Reviews
    • Raleigh in Exeter 1985,? ed. by Joyce Youings
    • A history of Devon, by Robin Stanes
    • Tin Mines and Miners of Dartmoor, by Tom Greeves
    • The Monmouth Rising, by Ivan Roots
    • Tall Ships in Torbay, by John Pike
    • A history of Kingsbridge and Salcombe, by Anne Born, and Kingsbridge, Devon, by Anne Born and Kathy Tanner
    • Maritime South West No. 1, ed. by Walter Minchinton
    • Domesday Totnes, by Urban Earle, and The Domesday Survey of 1086 and the country round Chulmleigh, by R.C.M. Bass
    • Chulmleigh: a short history and walk round guide, by R.C.M. Bass
    • A field guide to the boundary marks on and around Dartmoor, by Dave Brewer, Dartmoor then and now. by F.H. Starkey, and
      A?gentleman’s walking tour of Dartmoor 1864, ed. by Simon Butler
    • Devon’s industrial past: a guide, by Walter Minchinton
    • St Sidwell an Exeter legend, by M.J. Swanton
    • Kingston defended, by H.M. Petter
  • Devon History Society, 16th AGM

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