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
Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees.

The Great Hall at Hampden House

St Mary Magdalene church and Hampden House

Hampden's regiment marching through Thame

No. 99 – Autumn 2021

● Exhibition of Hampden artefacts – Great Kimble Church
● Talk to the Ketner Society at National Liberal Club
● Part I: Hampden and Milton – The Bucks Connection
● Oxfordshire Characters in the Civil War – Thame Museum Talk
● What distinguishes as Martyr
● The Sword of John Hampden – National Liberal Club
● Slavery and John Hampden
● Exhibition at Thame Museum
● Talk to the Abingdon U3A

No. 98 – Summer 2021

● 2021 AGM Report
● Wreath laying at Chalgrove Memorial
● Proposed visit to Milton’s Cottage
● Exhumation of combatants killed at the battle of Brentford
● Connections with Reading Abbey
● Book Review: Battle of Chalgrove – A case study
● Slavery and John Hampden
● Exhibition at Thame Museum
● Talk to the Abingdon U3A

No. 97 – Spring 2021

● Plans for 2021 AGM
● 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

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

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)

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

No. 91 – Autumn 2019

● The threat to the Chalgrove Battlefield
● Talks – U3A Thame, U3A Croxley Green and The Grove Park Group
● A new Hampden feature in Aylesbury
● The Duel Stone story
● An offshore AGM?

No. 90 – Summer 2019

● A talk by Ian Beckett (a leading military historian)
● Bruce Alexander’s text of his 2019 AGM speech
● Book review – By The Sword Divided
● TV review – Charles I Downfall of a King
● The Hampden Clubs – and The Peterloo Massacre