Hi all,
Over recent years we have seen a natural rise in the number of articles
in our annual Journals on individuals and families and their experiences on
either how they came to the valley or their experiences within and sometimes
away from the valley.
Whilst we as a Society naturally welcome all stories of interest with an
"Ogmore Valley" theme, this year we have received some dissenting comments
over this seeming increase of "people" articles and apparent lack of articles
on institutions, valley organisations and buildings etc pertaining to the
valley and whilst we openly welcome all feedback, including constructively
negative feedback, the society feels that an open explanation is perhaps in
order.
Since our inception in 1999, the Society has, and will continue to encourage
anyone with a story to tell of THEIR memories of the Ogmore Valley, whether
that is of a particular institution, building or a personal view of an event
they were involved in. We also positively encourage people to tell us their
personal life stories which perhaps may not interest the great academics of
any generation, but serve to give the ordinary persons view on life in the
valley as they lived through and in their words, with some wordcraft
assistance along the way by the wonderful editors the Society have been
very fortunate to have served it throughout the first ten years.
The Society have no bias either positive or negative to any particular
content for the articles, the authors in any given year will, by natural
selection decide the make up of the Journal, however if you do have a
subject matter that you would like see an article on in one of our Journals,
please contact any member of the Society and we will gladly assist you in
researching and compiling the finished article, or even undertake to
research the subject ourselves with the potential view to writing an article
if we can uncover sufficient material which we think will then be of
interest to our members and general readership.
Finally, the Journal is written by enthusiastic and very knowledgeable
amateurs, sometimes with a little assistance from the editorial team, who
all share a common passion for recording the history and heritage of this
small geographical area that has touched and influenced countless thousands
and all do so with no thought of remuneration, but only the knowledge that
their "story" will be recorded and published and therefore available not
only for the present generation, but available for posterity via the great
national intuitions that make up the six UK Legal Deposit Libraries that all
our publications are safely deposited in every year.
So if you have a story in you, start writing or even if you simply have a
suggestion on what might make an interesting story you think others would
like to hear about and want the Society to investigate, please get in touch,
we really would love to hear from you.
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Regards
Huw
Secretary, OVLH&HS
www.ovlhs.co.uk
huw(a)ovlhs.co.uk