Talk:Victoria County History

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Hope nobody minds that I've tidied up this discussion page a little. --Alex Craven (talk) 04:52, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Name of this article

It seems to me that the name of this article ought to be the full "Victoria History of the Counties of England" (which is the actual name of the series), with "Victoria County History" (the abbreviated form), redirecting to it. Is there any good reason to keep it as it is? (the 'wrong' way round).--John Maynard Friedman (talk) 22:56, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

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Inaccurate Entries

I've updated the list of counties: new work has just begun in Nottinghamshire, for instance, whilst work continues in Wiltshire. --Alex Craven (talk) 04:52, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Berkshire

The VCH for Berkshire was published in 4 volumes as stated on this page - but the last volume was published in the late 1920s - not 1972 as given here.

In 1972 a fifth volume comprising an index to the orignal 4 volume work was added. So the entry should either bear the date of the fourth volume to be published or otherwise indicate that there are 5 vols or 4 vols + index. Newburychap 09:33, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

The VCH's own website gives this as four volumes, with an index published in 1927. --Alex Craven (talk) 04:52, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Cheshire

In the section "Counties in Progress", Cheshire is said to have had 6 volumes published. However this is inaccurate, though it is easy to see how the inaccuracy has arisen. The volume numbers that have been published so far are: I (isbn: 0197227619), II (isbn: 019722749X) , III (isbn: 0197227546), V(i) (isbn: 1904356001), and V(ii) (isbn: 1904356036). The absence of volume IV and the presence of the two books that together form parts (i) and (ii) of volume V is the source of confusion: it confused me when I was obtaining my own copies of the books. Can some means of correcting it be worked out? I'm not sure how best to do this, and so comments from others might be a good idea. (It also means that the poster given in the image is also slightly misleading, though perhaps less so, as it suggests a straight run of volume I to volume IV has been published, which isn't the case.)  DDStretch  (talk) 10:08, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Staffordshire

Although Staffordshire VCH have published a volume XX, the numbering of the volumes is not consecutive, and so only 13 actual volumes have so far been published, most recently in 2008. --Alex Craven (talk) 05:05, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Wiltshire

The article wrongly stated that work on Wiltshire was complete, and that there were no volumes 1 and 2. Work continues on Wiltshire, and volume 18 will be published in 2010. --Alex Craven (talk) 05:05, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

References

Citing the VCH

Could someone come up with a boilerplate "cite book" that we can munge as needed. Should we cite the book or cite the web site? The website suggests a citation like

• Victoria History of the Counties of England: 'Parishes : Cold Brayfield', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4 (1927), pp. 323-327. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62593 Date accessed: 03 July 2009

which is not a typical WP house style. Comments? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:29, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

I usually ...

• Victoria History of the Counties of England: Parishes : Cold Brayfield A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4 (1927), pp. 323-327. Date accessed: 03 July 2009

which is much more wiki .... hth Kbthompson (talk) 13:12, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I meant a {{cite web or {{cite book. Either way, I had in mind something like: Parishes : Cold Brayfield A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4 (1927), pp. 323-327. Victoria History of the Counties of England Date accessed: 03 July 2009

EPE

I've added a link to the England's Past for Everyone page. --Alex Craven (talk) 04:58, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Updating the link to the EPE project as it's now finished (2010!) and the URL is dead (replaced with it's earlier redirect to the VCH website). EmyP (talk) 14:52, 30 March 2014 (UTC)