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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Articles about the coaching heyday of Barnet; local man Andrew Crichton, protection officer for the Prince of Wales for many decades (before he became King); ;local poet Dennis Evans; a Victorian water fountain brought back to use; Twelfth century life in Barnet; the statue of Peace in Friary Park; Traffic in Barnet in the 1920s; and reproductions of many historical postcards of East Barnet and N...More Info
This is a 75th anniversary Reprint with a 2021 postscript included. It features walks very popular in the past and describes how these walks can be accessed now. It has a very pleasant style of writing, describing some beautiful open space around Barnet.
This brook follows a surprisingly green route through North East London for 21 km (13 miles) from Barnet, through Palmers Green and Edmonton , to finish at Tottenham Hale, linking woodland, parks and open spaces. There is an easy to follow step-by-step guide and also some fascinating insights into the history of places passed through. Originally printed in 2018 , addenda were added in 2023.
A history of the town's 120 pubs and inns from the Middle Ages, with names of publicans. It is 135 pages, fully illustrated with maps and photographs. Indexed. A5 size.
The story of the Bassett family during the 18th and 19th centuries, charting their rise from humble Quaker drapers to owning the town's first bank and becoming and its leading citizens.