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The history group was formed following the Langham 2000 exhibition to develop work already done in greater detail by investigating some of the issues that had come to light. The group is currently working on a variety projects:

In 2006 the group was awarded a £23,000 grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund to research "The Life and Families of 17th century Langham". The project commenced in September 2006 with an anticipated completion towards the end of 2008. The research by individual members is uncovering a wealth of information about the village which will result in an end of project publication, a major exhibition and associated village events.

The group has also been working to transcribe and collate the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 & the 1901 census returns and analyse the data. The returns are now freely available on this web site in a fully searchable format.

The group has been working to understand the reasons for population growth in the village during that period, against a background of most other villages declining.
Another project has been to collate the tithe apportionments for the village, map them electronically and make available on the Internet through this web site. The files are now available on this site with work continuing to add additional information from the 1624 and 1760 estate maps and hopefully land usage information from a variety of aerial photographs.

Individual members continue to work on their own particular interest areas adding to the wealth of information that the group has in its archive.