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Cyril Collard: Wellesbourne research papers

Description

Files and card indexes compiled from the 1990s by Cyril Collard during his researches into the history of Wellesbourne in the nineteenth century.

Collard's main interest was the functioning of the rural economy, with particular reference to the agricultural labourer, and the papers comprise copies and analyses of the major sources available, viz. census returns; tithe and land tax records; school, church and chapel records; directories, newspapers and electoral rolls; farm account books etc.

  • Finding No

    DR1170

  • Date

    1830-2004

  • Extent

    23 files, 5 card indexes

  • Status

    open

  • Level

    collection

  • Associated place

    United Kingdom - England - Warwickshire - Wellesbourne,

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Related material

Much of Cyril Collard's work remains unpublished but a typescript ('A rural economy: Wellesbourne Walton, south Warwickshire, c. 1830-1850', with numerous detailed appendices) is catalogued on the library shelves at 87.3 Wellesbourne.

See also Collard's contributions to the Kineton and Wellesbourne District Advertiser (DR 1170/1/21 below) and his 'Thomas Parker (1838-1912) of Wellesbourne: farm labourer, Primitive Methodist lay preacher, trade union organiser and parish councillor', in Warwickshire History, x, no. 2 (Winter 1996/7)