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Publications from the County Museum
The Buckinghamshire County Museum in Church Street is at the historic heart of Aylesbury, the county town. The society's collection, begun by our members in the 1850s,
became the foundation of the museum - first run by the society itself, then from 1957 by the County Council and today by the Bucks County Museum Trust. The museum has always produced occasional
publications, which can be viewed on its own website. Two past publications are available from the society:
| The Aylesbury Duck |
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A breed of pure-white ducks with a distinctive shaps have made Aylesbury famous. Developed by local people in the 18th century, the 'Aylesbury duck'
became famous after the railway reached Aylesbury in the 19th. By 1850 thousands of ducklings were being sent by train to London, where they graced the tables of the wealthy.
In this pamphlet Alison Ambrose traces the Aylesbury Duck from its fame to its decline today. |
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34-page pamphlet, with 18 illustrations, second edition 1991. |
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£5.00 plus £2.50 post and packing. |
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| Views of Stowe |
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On the bankruptcy of the second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the contents of Stowe House were sold in 1849. This included 105 pencil and watercolour
original drawings of Stowe and its park made in 1805-1807 by the artist John Claude Nattes, from Stowe's Library. The 105 drawings are now in the county museum. The full collection is an
important historic document. |
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60-page large-format paperback, with 52 plates and a plan of Stowe Park, published in 1983. |
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£5.00 plus £3.00 post and packing. |
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| Buckinghamshire in the Civil War |
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This overview of the role of the county and its people in the English Civil War of the 1640s was produced alongside an exhibition,
for which it acted in part as a catalogue. Professor Ian Beckett summarises events in Buckinghamshire during the war, with a map and timeline. This is followed
by a detailed description of 87 objects which bring solid reality to the story of a county in wartime. |
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62-page large-format paperback, with 46 colour illustrations and 10 black-and-white, published in 2004. |
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£6.00 plus £2.50 post and packing. |
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| Chiltern landscapes |
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WATERCOLOURS BY WILLIAM AND HARRIET CALLOW |
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A set of five postcard-size colour prints of watercolour paintings, with an introductory essay, produced to accompany an exhibition in 2000.
William and Harriet Callow lived near Great Missenden in the Chilterns and the museum has a collection of 82 watercolours that they painted locally between 1855 and 1882. |
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Five colour prints and introduction, bound together, published in 2000. |
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£5.00 plus £1.50 post and packing. |
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