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Library
The Society’s library, housed in the County Museum, contains a comprehensive collection of books and pamphlets on Buckinghamshire. Subjects covered include local, social, political, religious and natural history, archaeology, architecture, biography, heraldy and genealogy. There are also some general books on relevant topics together with a collection of archaeological and historical journals, many of the latter are not found elsewhere in the county.
In addition there is a collection of older, more valuable books, housed in the Muniment Room, together with other archive material in the form of sale catalogues, election material, maps, prints and transcripts of parish records. We also have a collection of papers by Buckinghamshire antiquarians including Lipscomb's original notebooks.
The Library and Muniment Room are open to members of the Society and the general public on Wednesdays between 10.00am and 4.00pm when the Librarian/Archivist is available to help with enquiries. Members, who hold a Reader's ticket, may use the Library, but not the Muniment Room, whenever the Museum is open. Tickets are available from the Librarian/Archivist.
A variety of publications by the Society are for sale in the Library including the Buckinghamshire Papers series, a reproduction of the Jeffreys and Bryant maps and a collection of historic views of the county. Back issues of Records of Buckinghamshire, and copies of offprints of articles, are also available for sale.