The Devonshire Association

Devon

This is the front page to all the content that the DA hosts about Devon, rather than about itself. This section of the site is under active development.

The header on all the pages in this section shows an extract from Domesday (“In the City of Exeter the King has 300 houses …”). Also, the sidebar at the right contains a search box and a list of newly added Devon content instead of the list of upcoming events that’s shown on the rest of the site.

Contemporary content

Abstracts of papers published in our Transactions

Section Reports

Our annual conferences are held in a different Devon town each year. Our Sections produce reports on that town and its surroundings and collectively these provide a useful introduction to the place:

Other contemporary content:

Title page of Transactions 1894

A typical early title page

Historical content

From our Transactions

Over 1,300 papers and hundreds of Reports from various Sections and Committees were published before 1921.

We are building up a series of accurate transcriptions of papers and reports published in these early volumes. These few examples, ordered by publication date, give an indication of the wide range of what’s available:

19th century
20th century

Note that in view of their age we make no claims about the accuracy of the conclusions drawn in these articles. We are making them available for several reasons, including: to form a basis for further research; to bring possible overlooked information into the light; to improve on the often poor quality text available from the automatically scanned volumes on Google and the Internet Archive; and lastly just to enjoy learning about how things used to be, what we used to do, what we used to believe – and how we used to write!

Source information

See the source clouds page for lists of the most common authors, locations and topics for all the Devon content on this site.