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
● 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
● 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
● 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
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
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
● 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
● 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
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
● 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)
A video clip produced by the Royal Holloway University Click here Causes of the English Civil War