FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY LIMITED

www.fachrs.com

Family & Community Historical Research Society Limited

UNIT 4, 5 WEST HILL, ASPLEY GUISE, MILTON KEYNES MK17 8DP, UK

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Registered in England and Wales No: 3965865. Registered Office: Woburn Lane, Aspley Guise, Milton Keynes MK17 8JR

Press Release

FACHRS Publications is the publishing arm of the national Family & Community Historical Research

Society Limited.

The Family & Community Historical Research Society Ltd was inaugurated in 1998, the result of a

group of enthusiastic students and tutors of course DA301, then offered by the Open University. It

was founded to promote the pursuit of research by professional and non-professional historians

alike into family and community history within a scholarly framework, and to encourage links

between institutionally based and independent researchers. It is a national Society with global mem-

bership. The Society has in the past conducted micro-research projects throughout the UK under

the guidance of an academic adviser, topics being the change from hindu-arabic to Roman numer-

als, the Swing protest riots of the 1830s, pauper emigration and allotments. The Society is currently

organising a project on mapping public transport in Britain 1918-39.

This first publication by the Society, entitled

Swing Unmasked - the agricultural riots of

1830 to 1832 and their wider implications

, is the result of one such research project and is

to be launched at the Society's conference in Aspley Guise on Saturday 21 May 2005. The project's

academic adviser, Michael Holland, has edited a collection of essays, which have resulted from the

research conducted by some of the Society's members. There are eleven essays based on the

Swing riots, which refer to incidents in Surrey, Shropshire, Essex, Derbyshire, Buckinghamshire,

Berkshire, and Norfolk, as well as essays of a more general nature, a consolidated bibliography, two

appendices detailing alphabetically the victims and protesters with their parishes and offences, a

surnames index and an extensive subject index.

Also available is a CD-ROM containing databases of law breakers and protesters from the Swing

protest era, which contain 3,521 names of offenders and victims and 3,318 recorded events to com-

plement the book.

Both book and CD are available from FACHRS Publications, FACHRS Ltd, Unit 4, 5 West Hill,

Aspley Guise, Milton Keynes MK17 8DP, UK, or via the Society's web site at www.fachrs.com. The

book is priced at £16.50 + p&p of £.3.50 (UK) and the CD at £10.00 + p&p. All overseas orders will

be sent surface mail.

FACHRS Publications

First Book Launch 21 May 2005 at Aspley Guise, Milton Keynes