Was Cromwell at the Battle of Aylesbury?
An investigation by Bob Hammond,the Society’s former Vice-Chairman, into some contradictory accounts. Click here
An investigation by Bob Hammond,the Society’s former Vice-Chairman, into some contradictory accounts. Click here
An article, by Roy Bailey, tracing the history of the Royal Green Jackets (now a part of The Rifles) back to Hampden’s Greencoats. Written for the Regimental Association’s annual journal Swift and Bold. Click here
John Hampden – The Rise From Obscurity 1594 – 1636 by Roy Bailey One of the four papers presented to the Day School which the Society held jointly with the Cromwell Association at Thame on Saturday 27 November 2004.
A description of the campaign The Downing Street Campaign – Patriot No. 28 Reply from the DCMS March 2000 Reply from Westminster City Council April 2000 A copy of the reply from Margaret Hodge MP (Secretary of State for DCMS) rejecting the call to change the name of 10 Downing Street to Hampden House Reply … Read more
A History of Hampden House by Tim Oliver A history of John Hampden’s ancestral home by the present owner.
Great Hampden Parish Register The complete transcription of the Hampden family entries in the register of St Mary Magdalene Church, Great Hampden, by Derek Lester. Entries in the Parish Register of Great Hampden Church by Reverend Robert Lenthall in August and September 1647 Robert Lenthall’s record of the deaths at Great Hampden of his wife … Read more
A Ship Money protest A transcription of the protest by the people of Chesham against the Ship Money assessment in 1635.
Visit to the home of John Hampden the Patriot A transcription of an article in the Monthly Record of the Westbourne Park Baptist Chapel of a visit to Hampden House in 1902.
A precis of an essay written by one of the Society’s Trustees at the end a series of University lectures on the Early Stuarts by Brian Cox Charles I and his Parliaments: The Road to Civil War
An article about a revolutionary aristocrat who married Arthur Goodwin’s daughter Jane. From the Journal of the United Reform Church History Society by K.W. Wadsworth Click here