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As we seek to start our first experiments into making our new wide ranging museum we need help both to curate it and man it. Follow the Next buttons at the bottom of each page:  New Museum.

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Support We have received very positive support and enthusiasm so far but this needs to translate into action. We hope to be up to the job. Please be patient with us as we grow as we only came into being at the end of June 2023 when this website was created and regular meetings started in the October.

We welcome all contributions. Contact can be made by clicking the link to the webmaster’s address below.

Aims

Registered with the British Association Of Local History we are a new society, here in Stratford, to provide researchers at home or in schools, colleges and universities, initial material to conduct studies and to find forward contacts to people who are likely to know more.

We’re not here to usurp any other group about a town that we all know and love. Quite the reverse we would like you to visit the others listed on our Links page. It is wonderfully true that William Shakespeare and his many associates contributed greatly to the richness of the English language, our culture, our humour and how stage drama and poetry are portrayed.

Most people don’t realise how much history there was here before and since The Bard and how many inventions and significant pieces of history were fomented here. Our collected pointers to local resources and archives of local material are not there to seek to exclude Will The Quill but redress the balance of factual support whilst engaging you the reader in some unique ways.

Obviously it is the Histories pages that will significantly expand over time.

Did you know..

National Rail Railcard lists the 5 most beautiful places to visit in England:  Guess where Stratford is.. Railcard

Did Stratford have a Castle ? We don’t know but see the evidence: Temple Hill

Archaeology Explains the name of this town: Strait Ford

SBT Reorganisation:  Rachael North Appointed Interim CEO

New Page: Edward Fordham Flower’s house: The Hill Mansion

New pages:  How Augmented Reality works: AR Master Page

New pages:  How Physical & Political Geography Changed England and Stratford

£200M Redevelopment in central Stratford announced:  Stratford Gateway

SLHS Expanding. If we are to succeed we need you:  New Museum Officers Needed

Don’t throw away: Repair...

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Meanwhile please click here:  New To SLHS

Help Needed..

As we plan the new Local History Museum in Stratford we need volunteers. Please come forward..

Proposed Museum

- LATEST NEWS -

First Year Celebrated

On Tuesday 13th August we had a little chat about the Society, huge amounts of salad to go with our

barbecued meats, a fun Music Quiz followed by the Giant Jenga challenge. Everyone joined in.

Thank you for coming.

From August 2024 Meetings are twice per month:

12 Nov   7:00pm One Elm Pub

    26 Nov 10:00am at Coffee#1 Henley Street

   17* Dec   7:00pm One Elm Pub -Xmas Meal*

   24 Dec No meeting

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Shakespeare Himself Speaketh

14 Jan   7:00pm One Elm Pub

28 Jan 10:00am at Coffee#1 Henley Street

11 Feb   7:00pm One Elm Pub

25 Feb  10:00am at Coffee#1 Henley Street