Recent Publications

The Society’s six

most recent publications

Notley Abbey

FROM ITS FOUNDATION BY A NORMAN EARL
TO ITS DISSOLUTION BY A TUDOR KING:
A BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HOUSE OF AUGUSTINIAN CANONS

– by William Strange
For almost four centuries Notley Abbey was a major presence in Buckinghamshire, but its story has been largely forgotten – until now. This book brings together for the first time the daily lives of the canons in the county’s wealthiest monastery, its interactions with local people, its acquisition of lands and rights, its nationally known shrine – and what happened to its people, buildings, lands and valuables when Henry VIII’s agent came calling in 1538.  Published July 2024.
£18 plus £4.50 post and packing.
    

Records of Buckinghamshire

2024 – VOLUME 64
Articles in the society’s annual journal for 2024 range from the early mesolithic occupation at Uxbridge to the remains of a Norman castle at Bradwell village in Milton Keynes; from medieal chapels to horse mills; from geoarchaeology in Hodgemoor Woods to middle-Saxon burials in Aylesbury – plus the controversial conflicting accounts of the civil war battle of Chalgrove and the death of John Hampden.  Published May 2022.
£15.00 plus £3.50 post and packing.
 

The Kings at Brill

THE EARLY HISTORY OF A BUCKINGHAMSHIRE VILLAGE
IN THE FOREST OF BERNWOOD
– by Michael Farley
Before 1066 King Edward the Confessor built a hall at Brill. For the next 230 years his successors came for the hunting – but Henry III made it a court fit for his new Queen. This book gathers all the evidence from medieval royal documents to modern archaeology to paint a vivid picture of life in Brill’s royal manor.  Published May 2022.
£18.00 plus £4 post and packing.
 

Finding Quarrendon:

TRACING A LATE MEDIEVAL BUCKINGHAMSHIRE VILLAGE THROUGH ITS DOCUMENTS
– by Garry Marshall
Once it was a thriving village surrounded by its open fields; today there are only grassy earthbanks. But this booklet brings Quarrendon alive again. This vivid demonstration of the art of historical research traces the villagers through the annual harvest, the sale of wool, repairs to the manor after gales – and the bridges after floods. Here we see the lives of Buckinghamshire people across a gap of 600 years.  Published May 2021.
£3.50 plus £1 post and packing.
 

How one man transformed a town

WINSLOW 1640-1770 AND WILLIAM LOWNDES

– by David Noy
William Lowndes left Winslow at the age of 15 when his father went bankrupt. He returned to pay his father’s debts,
build Winslow Hall and change the town forever. David Noy has mined the documentary record to tell this extraordinary story. Published November 2020.
£11 plus £3.50 post and packing.

Pots, potteries and potters of Buckinghamshire 1200-1910

– by Michael Farley and Barbara Hurman
For centuries pottery was a major Buckinghamshire industry with dozens of kiln sites. This book is a comprehensive gazetteer, listing pottery production sites and every potter in the documentary record by name. Where known it also illustrates their products. All this information is ordered alphabetically by parish for easy access. Published October 2019.
£15 plus £1.50 post and packing.

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