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

Portrait of John Hampden by William Dobson

Hampden Statue in The Palace of Westminster
Cromwell, Hampden and Hobart in the Old Church at The Lee

Society AGM at Great Hampden

Members walking the Chalgrove battlefield

Magdalen College Oxford

The American privateer Hampden engaging the East India Company ship, Bridgewater, in 1779. © 2012 Christie's Images Limited

The John Hampden Monument at Chalgrove

The John Hampden Society

Patriot 118 – Winter 2025

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Hampden at Oxford Endowment – Gordon and Linda Schreck
Can you help Amy Simes
Prince Rupert – talk by Mark Turnbull
George Fenwick – Governor of the Sayebrook Settlement
Memories of Grampound

Political change in Bucks from the Civil Wars to the Suffragettes – Bucks Local History Network Conference 2026 (26 September)

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Buckinghamshire’s 2026 One-Day Conference and Local History Fair will be at a new venue – the National film and Television School in Beaconsfield, and one week earlier than usual, on Saturday 26th September. This year’s theme is: Political change in Buckinghamshire – from civil war to the suffragettes. The talks and speakers will be: The … Read more

The Ship Money Monument Walk

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The Chiltern Society has come up with an interesting walk in the Chiltern’s that includes a visit to the Ship Money Monument and passes Hampden House and the church were John Hampden is buried. Please find the link to details of the simply  click here for link Please note that there is no public access … Read more

Zoom Talk July 22nd: How American Revolutionaries perceived figures from the English Civil War

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7pm start – July 22nd CLICK ON LINK at the bottom of the page As America commemorates the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and we Brits mark the start of the American War of Indepedence … a timely talk, by Avellina Balestri. Figures such as John Hampden were inspired the American Revolutionaries in the … Read more