Windlesora The Journal of the Windsor Local History Group

Windsor Local History Group was founded in 1976 as Windsor Local History Publications Group. It was started by a small group of WEA students and tutors with the aim of fostering research in the field of local history and publishing the results. The name was changed in 2004.

The theme of Windlesora 27 is Crime and Punishment

• The Squire of Windsor
• Royal Theft
• Instruments of Punishment--Tudor and Stuart
• A Case of Witchcraft in Elizabethan Windsor
• Murder in Arthur Road
• Executions of Windsor Criminals
• Prisons, Crime and Punishment in Windsor in C19
• Lost and Found—The Fountain in Osborne Road
• Holy Trinity Chapel, Denmark Street
• The Trial following the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria
• The Duchess Blair
• A Windsor Pioneer--How a small idea led to the Probation Service
• Parings from Park Street—A Georgian Building and a pocketful of personalities
• The First English Police Dog
• Pillory, Tumbrell and Gallows--Criminal Justice in Medieval Windsor
• The Queen’s Discreation
• A Murdered Child and the last execution at Reading Jail
• The Windsor Martyrs—Burnt at the Stake
• Clewer Police Station
• Mollie Cullingham–Obituary.
• Book Review: Vanished Windsor by Elias Kupfermann
• Book Review: Windsor Great Park by Andrew Fielder

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