Changes to home page

Changed the left most “Things We Do” on the home page (the one with a picture of the library) to be about the Resources we have and are available both on line and in person. The wording can be improved and expanded and links added so please do so. But… Continue reading

Historical Association – Buckinghamshire Branch, 21 November

The Buckinghamshire Branch of the Historical Association meets again next Wednesday, 21 November, at 8pm, when Professor Giuliana Pieri of Royal Holloway University of London will be speaking on Portraits of Mussolini: Italian Art and Propaganda under Fascism. Venue: Friends’ Meeting House, Rickfords Hill, Aylesbury HP20 2RT. Everyone welcome: admission… Continue reading

New Publication – Wulfhere’s People

 

Excavation report from the 2008 mid-Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Radcliffe School, Wolverton.      A4 Paperback, 155 pp, 120 illustrations,  Price £18 + £2 p&p.   Contact BAS at help@bucksas.org.uk to obtain a copy.

The site contained eighty-one inhumation burials and two cremations, accompanied by a wide range of grave goods.  This cemetery, the largest of its type in Buckinghamshire to date, is probably linked with the nearby Saxon settlement at Wolverton Mill, predecessor of the modern Wolverton (in Saxon , Wulfheres Tün – ‘Wulfhere’s estate’).