Introducing VCH

The Victoria County History or VCH is a national project to write the authoritative local history of every English place. Founded in 1899: it is without doubt the greatest publishing project in English history. It can be accessed both in printed form in the familiar red volumes – and increasingly online. A more recent initiative has been to publish single place studies: ‘VCH Shorts’.

Whether in a library or at home, where VCH has been completed it forms the point of entry into the history of a place for local residents, historians, genealogists, planners and heritage managers and the merely curious. It is also invaluable for school and university History students.