The summer 2020 issue of Local History News, the magazine of the British Association for Local History, includes ‘Indexing Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries’, an article by Ann Smith (Hon. Secretary) and Mark Forrest (Dorset Editor) about the history of SDNQ, the oldest continuously published periodical of its kind. The article includes a list of other ‘Notes and Queries’, the majority of which have long since ceased publication, and tells the story behind the indexing and digitisation of the journal.
Adrian Webb (Somerset Editor) has also been researching other ‘Notes and Queries’. In his article ‘Another Notes and Queries Publication’, Adrian tells the story of the short-lived ‘West of England Notes and Queries’, which was published in Bath in 1894.