Events news (updated 1 Sep 2023)
This page notifies recent additions and changes to events – both our own and selected external events. To keep up to date, you should also check the Notices page, where other news is reported....
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Notices (updated 10 April 2023)
This is the place for notices and short news items that will be of interest to members of the DA. You may also wish to look at the Events news page where new events...
The Devonshire Dialect Dictionary – Introduction
Introduction · References · Bibliographic resources · Chronology · Guide · The Dictionary Compiled by Geoffrey Dearson, BA (Hons), MA (Wales), MPhil (Exon), PGCE (Distinction), former Teacher of French at Ilfracombe Academy, Devon, of...
Sale of Exe Island booklet
A copiously illustrated booklet* was published by the Devonshire Association to accompany the Exe Island Seminar that was held at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) on 30 April 2022. Entitled The History of...
Worth’s Dartmoor – Contents
Click on a page number below to go to that section. Each section is displayed as a separate pdf file within the web page. You can read more about R. H Worth on this...
Annual General Meeting 2020
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of The Devonshire Association was held by videoconference on Saturday 3rd October 2020 at 11 a.m. Agenda Statement from the Chair regarding the temporary amendment to the quorum (Rule 22)....
Presentation to John Allan, our President, 2019–2020
On Thursday 4 June 2020, Sue Andrew, DA Chair, and Ian Varndell, Hon. Secretary, met with John Allan outside a deserted Exeter Cathedral to present him with a token of The Devonshire Association’s gratitude...
Website Update (Autumn 2019)
(Based on an item published in DA News, Autumn 2019) It’s been a year since my last report and I’d like to start with a few figures… Statistics Our new website has been online...
Resolution for AGM 1 June 2019
The Devonshire Association Annual General Meeting 1 June 2019 Rule 61 requires that a rule may be changed only by the approval of a two-thirds majority of Members present at a General Meeting. Under...
Special Membership Offer, 2018 – now closed
We were pleased to announce a special membership offer to mark the publication of the 150th volume of our Report and Transactions. The limited offer was open from 1 October 2018, but all available...