Whether your interest in history is personal, academic, or just a more general desire to find out how our forefathers lived, the Linton and District History Society offers a friendly welcome and helpful advice.
We meet on the first Wednesday of every month except January, 7 for 7:30 p.m., in Linton Village Hall. Tea and coffee are available at the start of the meeting. Annual membership is £20, and speaker meetings are free to members. Visitors are always welcome, and pay £5 per meeting.
Our programmes aim to cover local, national and international history – there is something for all interests, and we welcome suggestions for topics.
For all enquiries, contact the Society’s Secretary, Mrs Teresa Squires at sec.lintonhistsoc@gmail.com
We do not have a meeting in January, but resume on February 4th, when Gillian White makes a welcome return to talk about Mary Queen of Scots. To some a romantic heroine, to others the victim of her turbulent times, and the subject of drama, opera, novels and biographies, Mary – and her relationship with her cousin and nemesis Elizabeth – continues to intrigue.
Programme 2026
| January | NO LECTURE | |
| 4th February | Gillian White | Mary, Queen of Scots |
| 4th March | Roger Davies | Korea and the Glorious GlostersChairman’s Lecture |
| 1st April | AGM | Teresa Squires : A National Trust Pot-Pourri |
Review of our December meeting
John Putley of the Gloucestershire Archives has entertained us several times previously, so we knew we would hear much to inform and amuse us as he unveiled a view of Christmas as seen through the Archives. John covered the history of festivities, and the first mention of Christmas in Gloucestershire came in a document probably dating from the 1270s, a record of rental for land to be paid “at the feast of the Nativity”. We learned of traditions old and relatively new; the rich heritage locally of carols, wassailers and mummers; the sometimes generous and sometimes probably less-than-well received gifts given to children by local gentry; the earthquake recorded in one village but nowhere else (too much Christmas cheer, perhaps?); and even some Christmas-related crime, some farcical involving the theft of a turkey, one tragic incident of murder. So when you decorate your tree, pass around the mince pies, or set light to your Christmas pudding, you are following in some notable (and some less than laudable) footsteps. Ho, ho, ho!
Family history
We have transferred the main part of our Archive to the Herefordshire Archive and Record Centre, which is also the main port of call for those researching family history. Some of our parish records can be accessed via this link
Committee members :
Roger Davies (Chairman)
Teresa Squires (Secretary)
Nic Walker (Treasurer)
Valerie Boxley (Outings Secretary)
Pamela Bruce