The more observant of you will have noticed that, together with the hosting changes described in the previous posting, the site’s tagline has changed from “The Where and When of Classic Trials” to “The When and Where of Classic Trials”. This reflects a subtle change in the bias of my trials-history-related research.
Although making the Trials Sections Database as comprehensive as possible is still my ultimate goal, I now think that this will be more easily achieved by concentrating, first, on the trials themselves, then moving-on to the sections used for those trials.
I have therefore created a new Events Database which currently holds the dates of nearly 800 trials from the earliest MCC events (remember the first ‘Edinburgh’ was held in 1904) to the present day. This database is split into two parts – up to and including 1983, and 1984 onwards – to reflect the start of the ACTC Championships in 1984.
Up to 1983 I add events on an ad-hoc basis but with no intention (life is far too short) of trying to make the list comprehensive. From 1984 onwards my magazine collection should allow me to create a comprehensive record of every event in the ACTC Calendar, whether part of the ACTC Championship or not. I’m currently adding events from the 1980s and 1990s and will make the complete list available on this website as soon as I believe it to be worth publishing.
