Welcome to
this month’s round-up of local history and heritage in and around Blackmore,
Essex.
Blackmore Area Local History – 5 years’ old
On 1 December
2007 the first post was entered on http://www.blackmorehistory.blogspot.com
. The blog was supplemented by http://blackmorehistory.co.uk in
2008. Since then this blog has brought
you the latest history news as well as new insights into family and social
history, thanks to the readers who have contributed. But it’s thanks to Google that this has
become possible. Blogging is a simple
and straightforward way of connecting non-technically minded people to the
worldwide web. Blogs too have come a
long way over the last five years.
I would
encourage everyone who is interested in history to get blogging as well as
researching, because amazing things happen.
Without a web presence it would not have been possible to pay tribute in
such a tangible way to those men who died in the First World War. For example, it was good to link with a
family in Texas who are related to Frederick Garnham. The increased recognition of William Byrd and
his links with Stondon Massey would not have been possible and the William Byrd
Festival would not have happened. The
Maryon collection of photographs and a family remembrance of the night a
Zeppelin came down on land at Snails Hall Farm, Billericay, would not have been
published. The connections with the
Disney and Crickett familes would not have been made. Contact from descendants of Rev E H L Reeve,
of whom I wrote a biography, would not have happened.
Over the next
month I will be looking back and repeating some of the more important posts of
the last five years, either from this site or other blogs on my blog roll.
I'm inspired by Sir Tim Berners-Lee who gave the internet to us all. What a fitting tribute to him at the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games! "This is for everyone".
ESAH160 launched
The Essex
Society for Archaeology and History has launched an interim blog under my
editorship. http://www.esah160.blogspot.com
contains information relating to this countywide historical group and items of
heritage interest relating to the historic county of Essex. Some posts of relevance to the local area
will be referenced on this site.
Blackmore History News
This will be
the last post in this form. In order to
be more responsive, news items will be posted as soon as convenient rather than
saved up and published en masse.
Links
For an
extensive list of links to other sites go to: http://www.blackmorehistory.co.uk/externallinks.html
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