ABOUT US
history4u and Temple Local History Group are
run by the founders, who are Bristol born and educated and have extensive
family links across the UK and overseas. Both have many years experience in
researching and publishing medieval history, industrial archaeology and their
own family history as well as many aspects of the history of Bristol, entailing
fact-finding expeditions to the British West Indies, the Bahamas, the USA and
Europe. As a result the group has access to significant documents and archives
relating to many facets of Bristol and genealogical history.
Temple Local History Group provides a similar service to amateur enquirers such
as local history groups, amenity groups. Users of this service (provided free
or at cost) are required to sign an undertaking that no commercial use will be
made of information supplied (payment can be negotiated if at a later date if
you subsequently decide to publish or otherwise make commercial use of our
research). TLHG membership (including password access) is only open to
researchers who are able and willing to contribute to the group's knowledge
base.
Background
May 1979 saw the formation of a new local history group in Bristol - the Sperry
Local History Group, all of us employees of Sperry Gyroscope Ltd. Initially
interested with the history of our surroundings (Temple Fee and the medieval
heart of Bristol), by 1983 we had expanded and reformed as Temple Local History
Group - "The History Society for Central Bristol". We have made many
discoveries, including one of international importance, and now have some
thirty publications to our credit. If you would like to read more about our
early interests Click HERE to open an article about TLHG in a new window.
IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL USERS OF OUR INFORMATION Temple
Local History Group is glad to be able to continue to support amateur local
history and amenity groups. The only proviso to this continued free supply of
research information is that if you request information to use in your personal
or amateur research project you agree to acknowledge Temple Local History Group
or the copyright owners as the source and to provide a statement to us
confirming that your request is for non-commercial use (see box on the enquiry
form).
If at some future
time you publish or use the information commercially, we then expect and
require an agreed or negotiated contribution to our funds towards the cost of
maintaining our website and resource. We no longer charge a subscription to
Temple Local History Group members and it is only these contributions together
with research funds that enable us to run the website and to continue to
provide our friends in the local history community with research information
free of charge.
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