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An Illustrated History of Early Buckinghamshire EDITED BY MICHAEL FARLEY This is a history of Buckinghamshire from the Ice Age to the Tudors, where you will meet mammoths, early prehistoric farmers, Romans, Britons, Saxons, Vikings, Normans and medieval peasants – all have left their mark on the landscape we see today. 224-page paperback, published in 2010 £12.00 plus £2.50 post and packing.     Aylesbury: A personal memoir from the 1920s BY WILLIAM ‘BILL’ MEAD A brief chronicle of Aylesbury as it was in the middle 1920s, when it was a small town with a population of about 12,000. 92-page hardback, revised edition 2009 £5.00 plus £2.00 post and packing.     Buckinghamshire in the 1760s and 1820s THE COUNTY MAPS OF JEFFERYS AND BRYANT with an introduction by Paul Laxton A facsimile reproduction in book form of two of the earliest large-scale maps of Buckinghamshire. Packed with historic details – the originals are 6ft and 4ft in length – they show the changing landscape of the county in the 18th and early 19th centuries. 38-page large-format paperback, published 2000 £15.00 plus £3.00 post and packing.     The Chilterns in 1748 AN ACCOUNT BY PEHR KALM, VISITOR FROM FINLAND translated and edited by Professor William Mead The botanist Pehr Kalm spent three weeks in the Chilterns in 1748, staying in Little Gaddesden and visiting surrounding villages, recording local environmental conditions and farming methods at the start of the agricultural revolution. 168-page paperback, published February 2017 £6.00 plus £2.50 post and packing.     Finding Quarrendon TRACING A LATE MEDIEVAL BUCKINGHAMSHIRE VILLAGE THROUGH ITS DOCUMENTS BY GARRY MARSHALL This is broad-brush account of late medieval Quarrendon, today just earthworks on the outskirts of Aylesbury, through its surviving documents, bringing alive its annual harvests, the sale of its wool, floods, gales, repairs to the manor house – and a thieving cook. 36-page pamphlet, published May 2021 £3.50 plus £1.00 post and packing.     Historic Views of Buckinghamshire FROM THE SOCIETY'S OWN COLLECTION A collection of 50 engavings and watercolours showing buildings and landscapes of the county during the 18th and 19th centuries, each with a short history of the site and its current condition, offering a mine of information for local historians. 108-page large-format paperback £5.00 plus £2.50 post and packing.     How one man transformed a town: Winslow 1640–1770 and William Lowndes BY DAVID NOY William Lowndes left Winslow at the age of 15 when his father went bankrupt and the bailffs were knocking at the door. He returned to pay his father's debts, build Winslow Hall and change the town forever. David Noy has mined the documentary record to tell this story of one extraordinary man - and paints an extraordinary picture of how winslow's people, from the well-to-do to the poor, gained and lost from this transformation. 386-page paperback, with 36 illustrations and eleven Winslow family trees - published November 2020. £11.00 plus £3.50 post and packing.     John Speed’s Map of Buckinghamshire John Speed‘s atlas of England and Wales was published in 1610/11, with individual maps of each county. This is a reproduction of his map of Buckinghamshire from the second edition, published in 1627, in its original black-and-white state. Map, uncoloured and printed on lightweight buff card. £2.00 plus £2.50 post and packing     The Kings at Brill BY MICHAEL FARLEY THE EARLY HISTORY OF A BUCKINGHAMSHIRE VILLAGE IN THE FOREST OF BERNWOOD Before 1066 King Edward the Confessor built a hall at Brill - and for the next 230 years his successors came to Brill for the hunting in Bernwood Forest. Then Henry III ordered building work which made it a court fit for his Queen, Eleanor of Provence. This book gathers all the evidence - from medieval royal documents to modern archaeology - and paints a vivid picture of life in Brill's royal manor. 240-page large-format paperback, published in 2022 £18.00 plus £4.00 post and packing.     Last chance for Stoke Mandeville's deserted village? IN THE PATH OF THE HS2 HIGH-SPEED RAIL LINE BY PETER MARSDEN The construction of HS2 will sweep away the remains of the original Saxon and Norman village of Stoke Mandeville, the church ruins and centuries-old churchyard. This pamphlet outlines why this deserted site is of national importance. 24-page pamphlet, published May 2012 Printed copies are sold out but you can DOWNLOAD A COPY FOR FREE to read on-screen or print locally.   My Dearest Ben BY THEA VAN DAM An intimate glimpse into the world of Benjamin Disraeli, his family and the women in his life – through their letters. 208-page paperback, Second Edition published February 2018 £5.75 plus £1.25p post and packing.     Pots, Potters and Potteries of Buckinghamshire 1200-1910 A GAZETTEER BY MICHAEL FARLEY AND BARBARA HURMAN Pottery was a major Buckinghamshire industry with dozens of kiln sites. This comprehensive gazetteer lists pottery production sites and every potter in the documentary record by name - and illustrates their products where known. All alphabetically by parish for easy access. 144-page large-format paperback, published October 2019 £15.00 plus £1.50 post and packing.     Quarrendon: Aylesbury's lost medieval village BY MICHAEL FARLEY An illustrated guide that presents the hidden history of Aylesbury's lost medieval village – birthplace of St Osyth, valued at just £8 in 1066, and once the site of an Elizabethan great house and extraordinary garden. 32-page pamphlet, published July 2017 Printed copies are sold out but you can DOWNLOAD A COPY FOR FREE to read on-screen or print locally.   The Rothschilds and Disraeli in Buckinghamshire BY DAVID KESSLER In the second half of the 19th century the Rothschild family, bankers and financiers, built or acquired no fewer than seven great houses in and around the Vale of Aylesbury, while a little to the south Benjamin Disraeli, soon to be Prime Minister, was also moving in. This pamphlet outlines their story. 36-page pamphlet, published 1996 £3.00 plus £1.00 post and packing.     Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire WITH THEIR CONNECTIONS INTO NEIGHBOURING COUNTIES BY PETER GULLAND The toll roads or turnpike roads of the 18th and 19th centuries were the making of the main road network that we still use today. This book brings together the records of the turnpike trusts with on-the-ground observation of the roads that they built. The results make history visible on roads you travel every day.. 326-page large-format A4 paperback, published September 2017. £12.00 plus £3.50 post and packing.     The Watermills of Buckinghamshire A 1930s ACCOUNT BY STANLEY FREESE WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS edited by Michael Farley, Edward Legg and James Venn During the early 20th century Stanley Freese cycled around Buckinghamshire's towns and villages talking to millers and recording their mills in words and photographs. The result is a record of a way of life once crucial to local communities. 224-page large-format paperback, published 2007 £8.00 plus £3.00 post and packing.     Winslow in 1556: The survey of the manor BY DAVID NOY After the dissolution of St Albans Abbey, Winslow had an absentee landlord who owed the Crown money... then the surveyor Thomas Gedge came to call. This book shows Winslow in 1556: its people, its properties, their occupations, their families and relationships, their petty crimes and long-term feuds. 160-page paperback, published May 2013 £5.00 plus £1.00 post and packing.

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