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The Community Council of
Staffordshire (a voluntary and charitable organisation established in 1953)
acquired this web site many years ago and we are extremely grateful to Julian Bielewicz for his unstinting energy in creating and developing the site that you
see today, especially as he has been doing this from his home in Queensland, Australia
(but does actually hail from Rugeley, Staffordshire in the UK!).
This is a large and developing site devoted to Staffordshire's history (i.e.
pre-1888 boundaries). It is an important reference and information
resource for researchers, both professional and amateur whose aim is to encourage Local History
groups throughout the old historic county and to publicise their activities, meetings
and achievements. Hopefully, it will also increase individual group's
membership and thereby encourage more people to study, learn and carry out
research into Staffordshire's long and exciting history.
And, of course, the Staffordshire History
Journal is also part of this family. It was started 33 years ago in
1984 and its Editor, Dudley Fowkes (retired County Archivist), edited the
Journal until 2013. He was at the helm for 58 Volumes. Unfortunately,
owing to illness, Dudley had to give up his editorship and so far we have not
found anyone else to take it on. It has played a valuable role in
providing local
researchers with an outlet for the product of their labours.
Chris Welch - Chief Executive, Community
Council of Staffordshire
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It has everything that England has, including 30
miles of Watling Street; and England can show nothing more beautiful and nothing
uglier that the works of nature and the works of man to be seen within the
limits of the county. It is England in little, lost in the midst of England,
unsung by searchers after the extreme.
Arnold Bennett: The Old Wives' Tale
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