Rutland Local History & Record Society: Rutland Record 45

The latest publication is out now.

There are three main articles in this year’s issue. In the first, Robert Hodkinson focuses on events which took place in February 1643 during the Civil War, when there was a dramatic siege of North Luffenham House. The second article, by Alistair Parker, takes us forward some two hundred years to a time in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century when police forces as we know them today had not yet come into being and crime was very much something to be reckoned with. This led to the setting up of local societies ‘for the prosecution of felons’ in places like Oakham, Uppingham and Empingham, to name but three.

The third article is quite a contrast: using parish registers and, local press reports Sheila Sleath tells the story of the rise and fall of the Hopkins family, who were tailors and drapers in nineteenth century Uppingham and well known in the town. This publication also includes reports of all the year’s archaeology and museum acquisitions. Included free as part of membership or copies of the new publication can be obtained as usual from the Rutland Local History & Record Society at the Rutland County Museum for £5.00 (plus £2.00 p&p), via local bookshops, or on-line via www.genfair.co.uk. ISBN-13: 978-0-907464-68-6.