Buckinghamshire Local History Network (BLHN)

Formed in 2000, the network's objective is to link together the various local societies within the Historic County of Buckinghamshire. The main way that this happens is through an annual Conference And Fair. This is generally held on the first Saturday in October each year. The format of this occasion varies but generally includes displays by 20 or more Societies, lectures from national experts and local excursions. The speakers at the Conferences so far held are listed below. For details of the next Conference see the 'events' section.

2008	Peter Jarvis	The Transport History of North Buckinghamshire
2008	Ken Delve	Military Airfields in Buckinghamshire 1914-1945
2008	Steve Morley	A History of Canals in Buckinghamshire
2008	Keith Bailey	The Traffic of Aylesbury Railway Station 1877-1904
2008	Peter Gulland	Turnpike Roads in Buckinghamshire
2008	Dorian Gerhold	Carriers and stage-coaches c.1680-1840
2007	David Thorpe	Bucks Industries in the Nineteenth Century- an overview of change
2007	Mike Brown	The History of Brewing in Bucks
2007	Michael Hammett	The History of Brickmaking in Bucks
2007	Trevor Dean	The History of Paper Making in Bucks
2007	Dr Clive Edwards	The History of the Wycombe Furniture Industry
2007	John Brushe	Wolverton - the Bucks Industrial Town
2006	Prof. Derek Keene	Buckinghamshire in the shadow of the Metropolis,AD 900-1500
2006	Pam & Derek Ayshford	The Men of Nelson's Navy
2006	Janet Kennish	Datchet in the Nineteenth Century & its Links with London
2006	Dr Lesley Boatwright	Bucks in the late thirteenth century, evidence from the eyre roll of 1286
2006	Dr Elizabeth Williamson	Revising Pevsner's Buckinghamshire: exploring a county of contrasts
2005	Rev Eric Eyre	Baptists in Central Bucks in the Seventeenth Century & Benjamin Keach the Winslow tailor.
2005	Dr John Broad	The Claydons: the role of the Verneys in transforming an English Rural Society 1600-1820
2005	Dr David Noy	Medieval Winslow and the St. Albans Connection - "Buying their blood at the Abbot's will"
2004	Richard Wheeler	West Wycombe Park: an 18th Century landscape of politics, sex & nature
2004	Prof. Ralph Griffiths	The Household Accounts of Sir Edward Don of Horsenden & Saunderton, a Tudor Country Gentleman and Courtier
2004	Prof. lan Beckett	The Civil War in Bucks
2004	Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor	Enclosure and Common Rights in Eighteenth Century Bucks
2003	Sandy Kidd	Landscape Archaeology in Buckinghamshire
2003	Prof. E. J. T.Collins	Woodland Industries in Bucks and Berks from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
2003	Julian Hunt	The Black Death in Buckinghamshire
2002	Prof. Margaret Spufford	Early Non-conformity in the Chilterns 1450-1700
2002	Prof. Christopher Dyer	The Origins of the Buckinghamshire Village
2002	Neil Loudon	An Extra-ordinary Industry in North Bucks in the 19th Century
2002	Dr Roland Quinault	The Fall of the Grenvilles in Perspective
2002	Dr David Thorpe	Bucks in 1851-the Evidence of the Census, a story beyond family history
2002	Dr David Brown	The Eighteenth Century Landscape Park in South Bucks
2001	Prof. Michael Drake	Farms and Fields in North Bucks
2001	Prof. John Clarke	The Old Enemies: Buckingham and Aylesbury
2000	Prof. Michael Turner	The Georgian legacy of parliamentary enclosure
2000	Prof. Michael Reed	The changing landscape of Bucks in the 16th and 17th Centuries
2000	Prof. J C Beckett	Aristocrats in Bucks, with special reference to the Grenvilles
2000	Mike Farley	The archaeological background
2000	Dr John Broad	Bucks History in its regional context
2000	Dr Ian Hepple	Aspects of the Chilterns in the medieval period
2000	Carenza Lewis	Villages, hamlets and settlements – a study of the South Midlands and the Whittleworth forest project