BUCKINGHAMSHIRE SOCIAL HOUSING
– FROM ALMSHOUSES TO RIGHT-TO-BUY

A one-day conference on the changing face of housing for the people: cottages on manorial estates, the 18th-century workhouse that provided work, the 19th-century workhouse that enforced it, 'Homes fit for Heroes' that launched council-provided housing after the First World War, then the New Towns and Milton Keynes after the Second, and its dismantling through Right-to-Buy.

Saturday 5 October 2019 at The Oculus, the Aylesbury Vale District Council conference centre in Gatehouse Road, Aylesbury – plus displays and bookstalls by the county's local history and archaeology societies. Full details and tickets in advance >>

RECORDS OF BUCKS 2019 EDITION
out on 11 May

Records of Bucks (volume 59) includes articles on newly-discovered Romanesque wall painting at St Mary's Church, Old Linslade, the effects of the Wars of the Roses on Chesham, and Marlow's medieval manor hall.
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The society runs a series of Summer Outings to places of historic and archaeological interest between April and September every year.

The 2019 programme is just out, with outings to 18th-century gardens, the largest timber-framed building in England, a neolithic landscape, a 15th-century Prior's Hall, subterranean caverns and the largest village green in Buckinghamshire.

Full details and how to join these Outings >>

Wulfhere's People sets out the excavation of a mid-Saxon cemetery, revealing the lives of Wolverton's earliest inhabitants.
£18.00 plus £2.00 postage.

My dearest Ben provides an intimate glimpse into the world of Benjamin Disraeli, his family and the women in his life - through their letters.
£4.50 plus £1.50 postage.

Missenden Abbey sums up the medival finds and discoveries that tell of the great monastery, founded in 1133 adn dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538.
£12.00 plus £2.00 postage.

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