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

No. 79 – Autumn 2014

• The Funeral of JH – by Roy Bailey • Graffiti of JH in Lichfield cellar – letter from Kate Gomez
• JH on TV (Simon Schama and Clare Jackson – report by Steve Barriff
• Mastermind Answers – from previous issue
• The New Website – an update report
• Visit to Gt Hampden by Westbourne Baptist Chapel 1902 – article by Sam Hearn
• Chesham inhabitants Ship Money Protest – research Agnes Hearn

No. 78 – Spring/Summer 2014

• Barn Centre Thame AGM 2014
• Battle of Chalgrove – new entry in Victoria County History of Oxon
• Mastermind Question (answers in next edition)
• Battle of Chalgrove revisited – personal reflections of Steve Barriff
• Collecting Ship Money on the IOW – letter from Dr Paul Hooper
• Hampden House Girls School remembered
• 17th Century London recreated on YouTube
• Angela Rodda – obituary

No. 77 – Winter 2013/2014

• Was Ship Money an illegal tax – a re-assessment by Brian Cox
• Picture of Parliament from the river in the 18th Century
• Thame Charities Fair – a report
• The importance of the Battle of Chalgrove
• Photo of the inscription on the Ship Money memorial
• The Rainborowes by Adrian Tinniswood – a book review
• Real Tennis as played by Miles Buckinghamshire our Patron
• Ten Things you probably did not know about JH

No. 76 – Autumn 2013

• The JHS goes to Westminster – Speakers Question Time
• To serve two masters (biography of Col Robert Hammond) by Jan Toms – reviewed by Bob Hammond
• Bucks Local History Conference 2013
• The JHS goes to Westminster – a visit by members
• Suffragettes (and JH) remembered in Chesham march
• Fresh donations to the Society’s library – Dr Paul Hooper
• Visit to Fullers Brewery cancelled.

No. 75 – Summer 2013

● Battle of Chalgrove – wreath laying Gill and Derek Lester
● Disraeli and Hampden
● Bucks family History Society – open day 2013
● History of Parliament Trust – short biography of JH
● JH School Days
● Ewelme – on the Hampden trail

No. 74 – Spring 2013

• AGM 2013 at The Gate Pub, Bryant’s Bottom – following Church Service
• Great Hampden Church in need of restoration funds
• Mr Speaker William Lenthall – tragedy and triumph
• Portrait of a young JH ?
• JH’s second in command William Barriff
• William Cobbett – nineteenth century admirer of JH

No. 73 – Winter 2012/2013

• The Nat Portrait Gallery exhibition Henry Frederick, POW, eldest son of
James I.
• Retirement of Trustee John Gabbitas
• The Five Members – Edward Montague
• JH’s first muster 15th August 1642
• Insurance Cover from the British Association for Local History (BALH)
• Cromwell Association annual wreath laying – invite to JHS
• Rebels & Traitors a novel by Lindsey Davis – book review
• A seventeenth century time capsule

No. 72 – Autumn 2012

• JHS marks first 20 Years
• Obituary – Leslie Wynne Davies (nee Boatwright)
• Changes in membership subscription rates
• New Vice President – John Bercow MP
• Peter Lely – exhibition at Courtauld Gallery
• Letter from America – Pat Claus and Alice Hawes

No. 71 – Summer 2012

• A special day in Aylesbury – 100 years since JH statue unveiled
• Obituary – Alan Dell
• A Royal Pardon for Lord Saye & Sele
• Respected Royalists – Viscount Falkland (Lucius Cary)
• Hampden Day Celebration – at Hampden NZ

No. 70 – Spring 2012

• AGM 2012 at Broughton Castle
• The Inner Temple – a vanished world
• Roger Paynter – retiring as membership secretary and trustee
• Exhumation (?) of JH 21 July 1828
• Reprinting The History of Watlington