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Tewkesbury Historical Society

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The Colin Wicken Bursary

As you can read in his obituary, the late Colin Wicken was the founding Editor of the Society’s Bulletin. He was also a teacher or many years’ standing and was immensely concerned to encourage young students to research and write articles for the Bulletin.

One of the reasons why the Society was founded in 1991 was the collaboration between the Library, the Museum and Tewkesbury School which, at that time, offered a G.C.E. Local History Course for Lower Sixth Form students. It was the outstanding article by Cameron Lawrence which inspired the Colin Wicken Bursary and which was awarded retrospectively.

That course itself passed into history but in 1996 the School embarked upon a new A Level syllabus which required the writing of a 6,000 assignment. The Colin Wicken Bursary – an award of £25 – was subsequently awarded to the writer of a Local History Assignment which was worthy of publication in the annual Bulletin.

Education change has once again intervened and the requirement to write a substantial assignment has been reduced. In recent years no assignment on local history has been submitted to our great disappointment. Thus there has been no award made.

Winners of the Colin Wicken Bursary

Year	Winner	Article	Bulletin
1994	Cameron Lawrence	The Tewkesbury Textile Industry	Vol. 2 p. 7
1997	Katie Horner	The Baptist Sunday School	Vol.6 p.26
1998	Hannah Lord	Early Hospital Provision in Tewkesbury	Vol.7 p.53
2000	Gemma Wall	Voluntary Recruitment 1914-1916	Vol.9 p.58
2001	Coralie Merchant	Tewkesbury & the Abolition of the Slave Trade	Vol.10 p.45

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