The Earl of Buckinghamshire at the Society's 20th anniversary service in Great Hampden Church
The Ship Money monument at Prestwood
The Palace of Westminster in the 17th century
Pyrton Manor, home of John Hampden's first wife
The former Lord Williams's Grammar School, Thame
The Earl of Buckinghamshire at the 350th anniversary ceremony in Thame
St Mary Magdalene church, Great Hampden
Charles I tries to arrest the Five Members in the House of Commons
John Hampden's funeral in 1643
Arthur Goodwin, Hampden's lifelong friend
The Great Hall at Hampden House
St Mary Magdalene church and Hampden House
Hampden's regiment marching through Thame
No. 97 – Spring 2021
● Plans for 2021 AVM
● Obituary: Cheryl Gillan MP
● Sir John Urry – Deserter and Traitor
● Book Review: ‘Providence Lost’ by Peter Lay
● New Trustee: Dr Elizabeth Rogers
● Edition 100 – A Souvenir
● Hampden-Sydney College
● Awards and Certificates
No. 96 – Winter 2020/21
● Looking Forward – 2021
● Membership Matters – GDPR
● Friends of the Dymock Poets – donation by JHS of the John Drinkwater papers
● Hampden Family – settled in Bucks before the Conquest? Part 2.
● Book Review: The Seeker by S G McLean
● Who’s who – Brief Biographies of Trustees
● Inspector’s report on South Oxon Local Plan 2011-35, including the planning application for Chalgrove Airfield.
● Disappearing inscription on the Ship Money Memorial
● Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust (BGT) dossier on Hampden House park and gardens
● The Ship Money Monument at Prestwood – plans for walks and restoring the inscription
Hampden House Gardens and Park: A Bucks Gardens Trust Research and Recording Project
The link below provides access to a dossier for Hampden House Park and Gardens prepared as part of the Buckinghamshire […]
John Drinkwater’s notes on his book – John Hampden’s England
A transcript of handwritten notes made by John Drinkwater on the reverse of pages of the typescript of his 1933 […]
No. 95 – Autumn 2020
● Chalgrove Battlefield Development – JHS submission to Council
● Hampden Family – settled in Bucks before the Conquest?
● Gladys Hargreaves – Hampden family story
● Hampden in Scotland
● Peter Osborne – New Committee Member
● A Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
● Letter to the Editor – William Reid
No. 94 – Summer 2020
● First Virtual Meeting – Zoom ● Acquisition of a locket of Hampden’s Hair
● Book Review – Hampden’s England by John Drinkwater
● The Cony Case – Ship Money Mark 2
● Revd Richard Lenthall
Facsimile of the Domesday Book entry for Great and Little Hampden
A copy of the entry for Hampden in the Domesday Book Click Here The Domesday is not easy to read. […]
No. 93 – Spring 2020
● Message from The Chairman
● A Play about the Ship Money Trial – Jim Rodda
● Proposal for a Hampden plaque in Great Hampden Church
● Plans for the 2021 AGM on the IOW
● Book Review: To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape by Charles Spencer
● Talk to the Newbury U3A Military History Group
● Letter from Members Richard & Mary Hambly
● Plague Comes to Great Hampden (Rev Robert Lenthall)
The origins of the English Civil War – a short video clip
A video clip produced by the Royal Holloway University Click here Causes of the English Civil War
No. 92 – Winter 2019/20
● A new Vice-President – Sir Lindsay Hoyle
● Obituary – Olive Amy Entwhistle
● The Swan at Three Mile Cross
● Book review – Notes of proceedings of the Long Parliament by Sir Ralph Verney
● Hampden Clubs and The Peterloo Massacre part 2