CORRESPONDENCE FILES: LOCAL HISTORY

Scope and Content

following on from the revival of interest in local history and folk customs since the turn of the century, from 1937 ORCC vigorously promoted and co-ordinated activities such as the Local History Recording Scheme, surveys of village buildings, artefacts and records, tours and outings to places of historical interest, and exhibitions as a means of stimulating interest and self-awareness in rural communities; these activities provided the basis of later national campaigns for protecting listed buildings, archives and so forth; the results of the Local History Recording Scheme are held in the Oxfordshire History Centre Local Studies Cuttings Collection (usually identified with the preface CO, the name of the village and an ORCC number designation); ORCC Local History Committee produced several publications including a local history guidebook, Historic Oxfordshire, and bulletin, Top Oxon (see O41/1/PR1 for copies) and was instrumental in proposals by the Oxford Preservation Trust to create a City & County Museum