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

Political change in Bucks from the Civil Wars to the Suffragettes – Bucks Local History Network Conference 2026 (26 September)

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Buckinghamshire’s 2026 One-Day Conference and Local History Fair will be at a new venue – the National film and Television School in Beaconsfield, and one week earlier than usual, on Saturday 26th September. This year’s theme is:

Political change in Buckinghamshire – from civil war to the suffragettes. The talks and speakers will be:

  • The English Civil War in Buckinghamshire – Ian Beckett
  • Opposing the county’s Rotten Boroughs – Julian Hunt
  • Bribery and corruption at the 1802 Aylesbury election – Tony Sergeant
  • The untold story of the Great Pilgrimage and votes for women – Jane Robinson.

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