Author: Peter Marsden

BUCKS LOCAL HISTORY NETWORK

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Buckinghamshire Local History Network

The Buckinghamshire Local History Network – BLHN for short – has held its Conference and Local History Fair every year since 2000.

BLHN is a collaboration between the Bucks Archaeological Society, which has the county-wide membership and capacity to run a big conference, and the historic county’s local history, archaeology and heritage societies, which provide speakers, local research and displays alongside the Conference in the Local History Fair. The historic county includes Milton Keynes.

The conference and fair is held every Autumn, traditionally in different towns around the county, and has covered a wide range of Buckinghamshire subjects:

  • 2024: Food for thought ‒Exploring Buckinghamshire’s agricultural past
  • 2023: Putting our local heritage on the map
  • 2022: The cottage industries of Buckinghamshire
  • 2021: Shopping in Buckinghamshire ‒ from medieval market places to modern retail parks
  • 2020: Wellers, Wethereds, Wheelers and the ABC ‒ Buckinghamshire brewers through three centuries
  • 2019: Social Housing in Buckinghamshire ‒ from almshouses to Right-to-Buy

The subject of THIS YEAR’S 2025 CONFERENCE will be:

Fire! Fire! Bucks on fire!

because 2025 is the 300th year since the Great Fire of Buckingham in 1725.

This year’s conference and local history fair will be held on
Saturday 4 October, 10am-4pm
in the University of Buckingham’s Vinson Building in Buckingham

To find out more, click the following links:

Buy our recent publications on-line

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Now you can buy the society’s most recent publications on-line
via this website. Follow the links below…

Pots, Potters and Potteries
of Buckinghamshire 1200-1910
October 2019

Records of Buckinghamshire 59
May 2019

Wulfhere’s People:
Excavations at Wolverton
November 2018

Excavations at Missenden
Abbey 1983-88
May 2018

My Dearest Ben:
Disraeli through his letters
February 2018

Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire
1706-1881
September 2017

 

Just published by the Bucks Archaeological Society

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This new book brings together, in an easily accessible form, information from all currently known archaeological and documentary sources about the 700-year history of pottery production sites and potters across Buckinghamshire, gathering excavation reports, field names, parish records and national censuses alike to portray a once-important Buckinghamshire industry.

Pots, Potters and Potteries
of Buckinghamshire 1200-1910.
Published October 2019.

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