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Tewkesbury Historical Society

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Bulletin Contributions

Advice to authors, updated August 2009

Publication date: 1 May 2010.

Deadline: Members 31 December 2009; if typing needed then 5 December 2009.

Length: c 1k-3k words with all sources fully attributed in footnotes. "ibids" etc no longer required for our readership.

Submission: preferably in "word format" – please advise early if that is not possible and sent by email or on cd-rom. You can email documents of less than 1 mb via normal email. If larger than 1 mb then use YouSendIt (a free means of sending large files).

Illustrations: we are doing our best to improve the quality of black and white pictures for our in-house publishing. We, therefore, need either the best quality original for scanning or your scanned version in tiff format. Originals will be returned but please attach a self addressed & stamped envelope of correct size.

Copyright: it is the responsibility of the author to gain written permission from any author of an illustration which you wish to submit. We have had our knuckles rapped once over this matter – never again!

Procedure:

As far before the deadline as possible, please submit the articles to me; definitely, only one article per author is published in any one year.

John Dixon is the historical editor and will send a copy of his edition back to you for your comments and to undertake any requested amendments. Any disputes will be referred to a sub-committee.
It then goes to our typesetter, Derek Benson, who will transform the agreed edited article into the Bulletin format and place the illustrations. Derek then produces a camera copy.

The camera copy will go to you for your comments and only vital changes. The revised copy will then go to an independent proof reader. Please advise me in advance when you will be on holiday

John Dixon will convert to PDF and pass to printers for paper printing

Aftermath:

Contributors might like to know that the articles of the published bulletin, written by members, are submitted for the Woodard Award. Named after the late Bob Woodard, Honorary Life member, it is awarded each year for an article written by a member and contributed to the Bulletin of the Society which is deemed by the independent judges to have contributed significantly, by

a. the quality of its research and

b. the clarity of its communication, to increasing the knowledge of the history of Tewkesbury and District.

Please note: It has now been agreed that an article published over several bulletins because of size will not be disadvantaged. The award is a silver bowl, with the names of winners inscribed upon it, and a medal for the winner to keep. The judges are independent and report to the results to the A.G.M. of the year following publication.

Before that, however, an article might be short-listed by the County Local History Committee for the Brian Jerrard Award. Two of our members have now won the prize we have had four articles short-listed during the first two years of the awards existence.

We have also won two national awards from the British Association of Local History under the category "AWARDS TO ENCOURAGE RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION".

We would be delighted if you were to win all three and we look forward immensely to reading your submission.

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