The Leicestershire Archaeological Society in the Present Century
| Autor: | Hamilton Thompson, Alexander |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
| DOI: | 10.5284/1107865 |
| Popis: | Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 21, 121-148 I have been asked to write some account of the history of a Society with whose fortunes I have been closely connected for thirty-five years. At the end of this period one can look back to a date when the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society, as it was then called, had already celebrated its jubilee. Born at a period when ecclesiological and antiquarian zeal was spreading beyond a limited circle of enthusiasts and provoking the curiosity of a wider public, the interest to which it testified was quickened by the activity in church-building which accom-panied the development of the Gothic Revival, stimulated by the Oxford Movement. At the time of whkh I write, it was pur-suing a tranquil course on the old lines which its founders had established. The long reports printed in the volumes of its Transactions display considerible watchfulness over the state of historical monuments in the county, one of the chief duties of such societies, and form a valuable record of the vicissitudes of old and the progress of new buildings during each year. For this it had to thank its chief honorary secretary, Major Freer, whose devotion to its interests continued unabated until his death. The range of contributors to its Transactions and the subjects with which they dealt were somewhat limited-a phenomenon by no means confined to this Society-and one result of the division or its publications between two periodicals was that much scholarly and useful work by its members found its way year by year into the somewhat inadequately named Associated Architectural Societies' Reports and Papers, published at Lincoln. Here, bound up in one volume with equally inter-esting productions of the Lincolnshire, Worthamptonshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire Architectural Societies, all founded about the same time and for the same ends, several important papers lie entombed. In some respects the decision of each of these bodies to break their time-honoured union and publish separate records of their proceedings is to be regretted, as the co-operation involved in the planning of the yearly volume brought their leading members into annual consultation and correspondence with beneficial results. At the same time, while the other societies had no independent organs of their own, there can be no question that our separate Transactions suffered by the arrangement, so that, in the first decade of this century, the annual reports of the Society, with illustrated accounts of its annual excursions, were the outstanding features, with few exceptions, of parts published at long and irregular intervals. |
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