Dr Nusbacher’s talk on John Hampden and Oliver Cromwell -7th October 2021
Click here for link to video of Dr Nusbacher’s talk
The John Hampden Society
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
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 Gardens Trust Research and Recording Project. Work on this project started in 2014 and the dossier was published in September 2020. This site is one of several hundred designed landscapes in the county identified in … Read more
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 biography, John Hampden’s England. Click here
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. It is written in a heavily abbreviated form of Latin with small marks to show where a letter or letters have been left out