Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info
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The Barnet Museum and Local History Society has searched its archives to provide a record of how the society and the Museum have developed since its foundation. Extracts of past lectures, details of events and memories of volunteers are included in its pages. Together they reflect the story of the town of Chipping Barnet and the area around it.
12 page A4 booklet describing Barnet's boundary over 1000 years, including it's early history and place names.
A series of articles about Georgian houses in Monken Hadley, a quiet area just to the north of Chipping Barnet, that still retains some of these houses today.
A history of Monken Hadley, including the church (and its beacon which was lit to warn on the coming Spanish Armada), sport, Hadley Brewing, Hadley windmill, shop, schools and famous residents, such as David Livingstone.
Memories of growing up in East Barnet between 1923 and 1926. 'It shows a colourful, lost world full of action, pathos and humour.'