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BLHN Conferences since the year 2000:
Speakers and their subjects
The Buckinghamshire Local History Network has held annual conferences since the year 2000. These annual conferences are listed here from the most recent to the earliest, with the subjects of each talk and the speaker who gave it.
| 2023: Putting our local heritage on the map | |
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Buckinghamshire's new Local Heritage List
Lisa Harvey, of the Bucks Heritage and Archaeology Team |
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Democratising our heritage?
Nigel Rothwell, of Bucks Archaeological Society |
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Defining our historic landscapes
Lucy Lawrence, of Bucks Council Archaeological Service |
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Buckinghamshire's Arts and Crafts buildings
Chris Collier, of the Amersham Museum |
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Our parks and gardens heritage
Claire de Carle, of Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust |
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The Bucks Archaeological Society Joan Elding Awards 2023
presented by Sandy Kidd, of Historic England • Seer Green and Jordans Society, for their new ground-breaking local website |
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Maids Moreton Mound Artwork Project
Keziah Furini, artist |
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The New Town Heritage Register for Milton Keynes
Simon Peart, of Conservation and Archaeology, Milton Keynes |
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PLUS ‘The Buckinghamshire Local History Fair’
with stands by 20 local history, archaeology and heritage societies and organisations |
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| 2022: The cottage industries of Buckinghamshire | |
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Pots and potters in Buckinghamshire
Michael Farley, of the Bucks Archaeological Society |
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The lace industry in Buckinghamshire
Marian Swindells, of the Cooper and Newton Museum |
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Straw plaiting in Bucks
Veronica Main, Of the Chilterns Conservation Board |
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The Bucks Archaeological Society Joan Elding Awards 2022
presented by Sandy Kidd, of Historic England • Mike Farley, for a lifetime contribution to the county's archaeology • Tabatha Barton and Milton Keynes Museum, for the Bancroft Roman mosaic |
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Chair making as a cottage industry
Catherine Grigg, of Wycombe Museum |
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Needle making in Long Crendon
Julian Hunt, of Bucks Archaeological Society |
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PLUS ‘Bucks Local History Fair’
with stands by 13 local history, archaeology and heritage societies, including displays on Buckinghamshire's cottage industries CLICK HERE TO View the 2021 Bucks Local History Fair website |
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2021: Shopping in Buckinghamshire
– From medieval market places to modern retail parks (in-person and online) |
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Buckinghamshire market places
Julian Hunt, president of the Bucks Archaeological Society |
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Closed for stocktaking: Shops, market stalls and inventories in Winslow 1588-1750
David Noy, of the Winslow History Project |
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Shops and shopkeepers in High Wycombe in the late 18th century
Jackie Kay, Trustee, High Wycombe Society |
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From market town to Metroland – a history of shopping in Amersham
Alison Bailey, Trustee, Amersham Museum |
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From market town to Metroland – a history of shopping in Amersham
Alison Bailey, Trustee, Amersham Museum |
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Retailing 2021: Past, present and future
David Thorpe, founder of Bucks Local History Network |
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PLUS ‘Bucks Local History Fair’
with stands, displays and online web pages by 12 local history, archaeology and heritage societies, including research on Buckinghamshire shops and shopping |
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| CLICK HERE TO View the 2021 Bucks Local History Fair website | |
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2020: Wellers, Wethereds, Wheelers and the ABC
– Buckinghamshire brewers through three centuries (delivered On-line) |
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Wethereds of Marlow
Janet Smith, vice-president of the Marlow Society |
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Wellers of Amersham
Alison Bailey, Trustee of Amersham Museum |
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Wheelers of High Wycombe
Jackie Kay, Trustee of High Wycome Society |
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ABC: the Aylesbury Brewery Company
Julian Hunt, President of Bucks Archaeological Society |
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PLUS ‘Bucks Virtual Local History Fair’
with ‘virtual stands’ by 18 local history, archaeology and heritage societies, including research on Buckinghamshire brewing and breweries |
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| CLICK HERE TO View the 2020 Bucks Local History Fair website | |
| 2019: Social Housing in Buckinghamshire – from almshouses to Right-to-Buy | |
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Social housing under the first Poor Law 1600-1834
Professor John Broad, editor of Records of Buckinghamshire |
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Marlow's overworked workhouse: Problems caused by the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act
Janet Smith |
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1919: ‘Homes fit for Heroes’
Peter Marsden, Chair of Bucks Archaeological Society |
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Social Housing in Amersham 1919-1945
Emily Toettcher, Curator of Amersham Museum |
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Blitz, Bletchley and Milton Keynes: The decentralisation of London after World War 2
Professor Mark Clapson, University of Westminster |
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The deconstruction of council and social housing since 1979
John Boughton, author of ‘Municipal Dreams: The rise and fall of council housing’ |
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| 2018: Archaeology ahead of the HS2 rail line | |
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HS2 Archaeology: The Buckinghamshire perspective
Eliza Alqassar of Buckinghamshire Archaeology Service |
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How the HS2 archaeology project can throw light on human interaction with the landscape in central England across time
Jay Carver, Lead Archaeologist for Fusion and HS2 |
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Archaeology within a large infrastructure project and early insights from the urgent-work programme of 2017-18
Richard Brown, Cotswold-Oxford-PCA archaeology team |
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The Lost Village of Doddershall
Dr Paul Stamper of the Connect archaeology team |
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Stoke Mandeville: Archaeology in a country churchyard
Andrew Harris, Fusion heritage specialist, and Guy Hunt of LP Archaeology |
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Archaeological reconnaissance and magnetometry for large-scale landscape assessment
Jay Carver, Lead Archaeologist for Fusion and HS2 |
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Buckinghamshire and the railways last time around
Julian Hunt of the Bucks Archaeological Society |
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| 2017: Buckinghamshire Land and People | |
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Who owned Buckinghamshire in 1798?
Dr John Broad, editor of Records of Buckinghamshire |
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Buckinghamshire and Parliament 1820-1868
Dr Peter Salmon, editor, History of Parliament |
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The continuing controversy on the origin of open fields and ridge and furrow
Dr David Hall |
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From Tudor plaisaunces to Central Milton Keynes – discovering hidden gems of Bucks gardens
Dr Sarah Rutherford, founding member of the Bucks Gardens Trust |
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Costing the earth – Buckinghamshire and English gardens since 1660
Professor Sir Roderick Floud |
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Buckinghamshire's Turnpike Roads 1706-1881
Peter Gulland |
| 2016: Buckinghamshire's Time Team | |
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Human activity in the Buckinghamshire Middle Thames from 10,000 BCE to Roman times – the evidence of Kingsmead Quarry, Horton
Alistair Barclay |
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Researching the Iron Age and Roman landscapes around Aylesbury
Sandy Kidd |
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Settlement in Buckinghamshire during the Saxon period
Mike Farley |
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The Evolution of the Landscape in North Buckinghamshire - the evidence from Broughton
Rob Atkins |
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The Saxon and Medieval History of Wycombe Heath, Penn, Common and King's Woods
Miles Green |
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The Context of the Lenborough Hoard
Susan Fern |
| 2015: Buckinghamshire Towns | |
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The Evolution of Eton and Windsor – a Historic Towns Trust Atlas
David Lewis |
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High Wycombe before Chairmaking
David Green |
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The Birth of Milton Keynes
Professor David Lock |
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Subtopia and other suburban development in Buckinghamshire before Metroland 1840-1914
Dr David Thorpe |
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The Medieval Town
Emeritus Professor Christopher Dyer |
| 2014: Defining Buckinghamshire | |
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The Origins of Buckinghamshire – sashes and Buckingham
Jeremy Haslam |
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Two competing county towns, Aylesbury and Buckingham
Edward Grimsdale |
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The County Maps of the 16th to 18th centuries
Tom Harper |
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The Large-scale Maps of the Ordnance Survey 1840-1940
Dr Richard Oliver |
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The Great War at Home
Dr Kate Tiller |
| 2013: Power, Money and the Landscape in Buckinghamshire | |
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Roman villas and their landscape
Professor Keith Branigan |
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Lord or Peasant? The origin of the nucleated village and the open fields, with special reference to North Bucks
Dr Richard Jones |
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Theatres of Power: Buckinghamshire forests and chases
Dr Graham Jones |
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Conspicuous display: The 18th-century great house, with special reference to Hartwell
Richard Wheeler of the National Trust |
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Rothschild money moving a mountain: The creation and role of the Waddesdon gardens
Catherine Taylor |
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Conserving the Chilterns, circa 1920-1950
Dr Roland Quinault |
| 2012: Women in Buckinghamshire | |
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Royal Women and Anglo-Saxon Buckinghamshire
Professor Pauline Stafford |
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Mrs Delany and the circle of the Duchess of Portland at Bulstrode in the C18
Clarissa Campbell Orr |
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The Betsey Wynne Diaries – the Swanbourne Years
Dr Elaine Chalus |
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The Nightingale Sisters and Claydon House
Sue Baxter |
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The Suffragettes in Buckinghamshire
Rev Colin Cartwright |
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The Buckinghamshire Lace industry
Julian Hunt |
| 2011: Military Buckinghamshire | |
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Moats, mottes and castles: status and defence in medieval Buckinghamshire
Mike Farley |
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The Buckinghamshire gentry and the Hundred Years War
Dr Andy King |
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Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire in the Civil War
Dr Alan Thompson |
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Portraits of the Civil War, and others
Sarah Gray |
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Buckinghamshire and the First World War
Michael Senior |
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The secret war in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley and beyond
Jonathan Byrne |
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Portraits of Buckinghamshire military men
Sarah Gray |
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The Buckinghamshire voluntary military tradition
Professor Ian Beckett |
| 2010: Some great Buckinghamshire houses and their owners | |
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The Great Houses of Bucks – power, land and money
David Thorpe |
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Nether Winchendon House and its family
Robert Spencer Bernard |
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Chilton House – inheritance through the female line
Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher |
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Ashridge – the Earls of Bridgewater and others
Mike Thompson |
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Cliveden – the two Dukes, Buckingham and Sutherland
Charles Pugh |
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The Rothschilds in Buckinghamshire
George Ireland |
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Chequers
Rodney Melville |
| 2009: Some great Buckinghamshire figures | |
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Edmund Weller of Beaconsfield
Julian Hunt |
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The first Marquis of Wharton (‘honest Tom’) of Winchendon and Wooburn
Dr Robin Eagles |
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The Earl of Shelburne, the first Buckinghamshire Prime Minister and MP for Wycombe
David Snoxell |
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Benjamin Disraeli and Buckinghamshire
Roland Quinault |
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John Hampden – the Buckinghamshire Connection
Roy Bailey |
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Ettie Desborough of Taplow
Richard Davenport-Hines |
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Buckinghamshire Artists
Sarah Gray |
| 2008: Buckinghamshire's transport history | |
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The Transport History of North Buckinghamshire
Peter Jarvis |
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Military Airfields in Buckinghamshire 1914-1945
Ken Delve |
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A History of Canals in Buckinghamshire
Steve Morley |
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The Traffic of Aylesbury Railway Station 1877-1904
Keith Bailey |
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Turnpike Roads in Buckinghamshire
Peter Gulland |
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Carriers and stage-coaches circa 1680-1840
Dorian Gerhold |
| 2007: Buckinghamshire industries | |
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Buckinghamshire Industries in the Nineteenth Century – an overview of change
David Thorpe |
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The History of Brewing in Buckinghamshire
Mike Brown |
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The History of Brickmaking in Buckinghamshire
Michael Hammett |
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The History of Papermaking in Buckinghamshire
Trevor Dean |
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The History of the Wycombe Furniture Industry
Dr Clive Edwards |
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Wolverton – the Buckinghamshire Industrial Town
John Brushe |
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Buckinghamshire in the shadow of the Metropolis, 900-1500
Professor Derek Keene |
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The Men of Nelson's Navy
Pam and Derek Ayshford |
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Datchet in the Nineteenth Century and its Links with London
Janet Kennish |
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Buckinghamshire in the late thirteenth century, evidence from the eyre roll of 1286
Dr Lesley Boatwright |
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Revising Pevsner's Buckinghamshire: exploring a county of contrasts
Dr Elizabeth Williamson |
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Baptists in Central Buckinghamshire in the Seventeenth Century and Benjamin Keach, the Winslow tailor
Rev Eric Eyre |
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The Claydons: the role of the Verneys in transforming an English Rural Society 1600-1820
Dr John Broad |
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Medieval Winslow and the St Albans Connection – "Buying their blood at the Abbot's will"
Dr David Noy |
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West Wycombe Park: an 18th-century landscape of politics, sex and nature
Richard Wheeler |
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The Household Accounts of Sir Edward Don of Horsenden and Saunderton, a Tudor Country Gentleman and Courtier
Professor Ralph Griffiths |
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The Civil War in Buckinghamshire
Professor Ian Beckett |
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Enclosure and Common Rights in Eighteenth-century Buckinghamshire
Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor |
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Landscape Archaeology in Buckinghamshire
Sandy Kidd |
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Woodland Industries in Bucks and Berks from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
Professor E J T Collins |
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The Black Death in Buckinghamshire
Julian Hunt |
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Early Non-conformity in the Chilterns 1450-1700
Professor Margaret Spufford |
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The Origins of the Buckinghamshire Village
Professor Christopher Dyer |
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An Extra-ordinary Industry in North Bucks in the 19th Century
Neil Loudon |
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The Fall of the Grenvilles in Perspective
Dr Roland Quinault |
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Buckinghamshire in 1851 – the Evidence of the Census, a story beyond family history
Dr David Thorpe |
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The Eighteenth Century Landscape Park in South Bucks
Dr David Brown |
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Farms and Fields in North Buckinghamshire
Professor Michael Drake |
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The Old Enemies: Buckingham and Aylesbury
Professor John Clarke |
| 2000 | |
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The Georgian legacy of parliamentary enclosure
Professor Michael Turner |
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The changing landscape of Buckinghamshire in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Professor Michael Reed |
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Aristocrats in Buckinghamshire, with special reference to the Grenvilles
Professor J C Beckett |
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The archaeological background
Mike Farley |
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Buckinghamshire History in its regional context
Dr John Broad |
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Aspects of the Chilterns in the medieval period
Dr Ian Hepple |
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Villages, hamlets and settlements – a study of the South Midlands and the Whittleworth forest project
Carenza Lewis |