The latest issue of SDNQ (vol. 39, part 398) contains the following articles, notes and queries:
- Propellants and Explosives: The Royal Naval Cordite Factory at Holton Heath, Dorset, by Grant Elliott.
- Some members of the Bysse family in the 17th century (part 4): Batcombe and Croscombe members, by Colin J. Brett.
- Bishops’ moves: travelling through Somerset and Dorset in the later Middle Ages. by R.W. Dunning.
- The employment of children in agriculture in north Somerset, 1867-1868, by Joseph Bettey.
- Pack Monday: Sherborne’s only surviving seasonal street fair, a reading of its ‘deciding date’ and what this may suggest as to its origins (part 1 of 3), by Katherine Barker.
- The Swanton family of Wincanton and Bruton, by A.J. Webb.
- Steve Hobbs reviews Dr Robert Dunning’s National, local, family: history from Somerset’s bishops’ registers, 1264-1559 (Somerset Record Society, Extra series 2)
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