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
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
A circular five mile walk through beautiful countryside starting at the car park of the Hampden Arms at Great Hampden. The walk is mostly on bridleways and paths passes Hampden House and Church, and the Ship Money Memorial. The walk was devised by Helen Lodge for the Chiltern Society. Click here: Hampden_Monument Walk
An article on the organisation and financing of John Hampden’s Regiment of Foot. Please click to download
• The New Website – update
• Newsletter Editor and Webmaster – vacancies
• Bucks Local History Network – report Sept 2015 conference
• Obituary – Reverend Dr Joyce Mary Bennett OBE
• Ship Money Memorial at Honor End Prestwood – Jim Rodda’s new responsibility
• The Happy Parliament of 1624 – article by Philip Baker of History of Parliament Trsut