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We have over 100 publications relating to the local history of Hertfordshire and all of these items are available from Archives and Local Studies. Please telephone 0300 123 4049

A century remembered £15.00
A Hertfordshire Christmas £9.99
A history of Knebworth's parks £2.75
A school of masons in the 15th century (in North Herts)50p
Alley & Ditch (Hertford)£4.99
Amwell and Stanstead's past in Pictures £14.95
Another walk through Much Hadham £7.50
A walk through Little Hadham £7.50 TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
Aspects of Stevenage £5.99
Beating about the Bush: A History of Hertford Heath £9.99
Behind the Plough £12.99
Bishop's Stortford: A Pictorial History £6.99 OUT OF STOCK
Bishop's Stortford: A History £16.99
Blind Faith (early days of St Albans talking newspaper) £3.00
Boxfield Farm, Chells £16.00
Brewers in Hertfordshire - A historical gazetteer £14.99
Brief history of the Grand Union Canal in Herts 50p
Bringing literacy to rural England 30p
Broxbourne and Wormley's Past in Pictures £14.95
Buildings of Hertford (2006 edition) £5.00
Buntingford in Wartime £4.99
Buntingford Pocket Images £5.99
Cheshunt's Past in Pictures £14.95
Children of the Angel (Hertford)£3.50 TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
Cinemas of Hertfordshire £9.99
Community Life in Hertfordshire £10.00
Corn & Meadow Years £3.25
Countryside cycling £3.00
Crouchfield - A History of the Herts Training School 1857-1982 £8.00
Diary of Joshua Whiting 1861 to 1873 (Hitchin)£9.50
Easy Family History £7.99
Elizabeth Poston (composer - her life at Rooks Nest) £3.00
Elizabeth Poston Centenary - Contributed articles and personal letters £3.00
Elizabeth Poston: Letters to William and Sheila Busch £3.00
Elstree & Borehamwood Past £15.95
Family History in the Genes - trace your DNA - £7.99
Family Photographs 1860 - 1945 £12.99 SOLD OUT TEMPORARILY
Fleet Marriages of Hertfordshire People (up to 1754) £8.00
Gallows Hill - Life and Legend(Hertford) £4.00
Garden Cities & New Towns £14.95
Glimpses of Cottered, Throcking and Broadfield over the centuries £9.95
Guide to County Hall 50p
Hart Reguardant £2.00
Hatfield: A Pictorial History £6.99
Haunted Hertfordshire £10.99 revised & updated edition, Oct 2006
Hertford Pocket Images £5.99 TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
Hertford: A History £15.99
Hertford's Past in Pictures - reprinted in 2009 £16.99
Hertford Heath: see Beating About The Bush
HERTS RECORD SOCIETY VOLUMES
Vol 8 Accounts of Thomas Green £6.00
Vol 10 Bishops Stortford Churchwarden's accounts £6.00
Vol 11 Religion in Hertfordshire £6.00
Vol 12 Hertfordshire Muster Rolls 1580 - 1605 £6.00
Vol 13 Lifestyle and culture in Hertford 1660-1725 £6.00
Vol 14 Herts Lay Subsidy Rolls £6.00
Vol 15 Observations of weather £19.00
Vol 16 Survey of the Royal Manor of Hitchin £18.75
Vol 17 Memoirs of Hamels £18.50
Vol 18 Two Nineteenth Century Diaries £18.75
Vol 19 Layston parish Memorandum book £21.00
Vol 20 Julian Grenfell, soldier and Poet: letters and diaries 1910-1915 with an introduction by Kate Thompson £22.00
Vol 21 The Hellard Almshouses and other Stevenage Charities 1482 - 2005 £21.00
Vol 22 The Diary of Lady Adela Capel of Cassiobury, 1841-42 £9.99 (paperback)
Vol 24 The Impact of The Civil War on Hertfordshire, 1642-47 £22.00
Hertfordshire 1731 - 1800 As recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine £18.00
Hertfordshire Archaeology Vol 13 1997-2003 £12.00
Hertfordshire Archaeology Vol 14 2004-2005 ££12.00
Hertfordshire Archaeology Vol 14 supplement: Sopwell Prior excavations 1962-1966 £5.00
Hertfordshire Archaeology & History Vol 15 2006-2008 £20.00
Hertfordshire Archaeology & History Vol 15 supplement: The Post-Roman Pottery from Excavations in Hertford and Ware 1973-2004 £10.00

Hertfordshire Brasses £5.95
Hertfordshire Complete 1851 census index £18.00
Hertfordshire Examinations £11.50
Hertfordshire Garden History - A Miscellaney £16.99
Hertfordshire Gardens on Ermine Street £3.00
Hertfordshire Monumental Inscriptions - Aspenden & Westmill
£4.00
Hertfordshire Monumental Inscriptions - Hertford, St Andrew £4.00
Hertfordshire Monumental Inscriptions - Hertford, All Saints £6.00
Hertfordshire Murders £12.99
Hertfordshire Past & Present £2.50
Hertfordshire Places - An alphabetical finding aid for historical places-names in Hertfordshire, £6.00
Hertfordshire within living memory £7.95
Hertfordshire's Past - Up to No 34, 20p. 35 onwards £1.25
Hertfordshire Windmills and Windmillers £10.00
Historic Buildings of Stevenage £5.00
History of Sele Farm £3.00
Hitchin Arcade: Then and Now £9.95
Hitchin Priory Park £12.95
Hoddesdon: A History £13.99
Hoddesdon's Past in Pictures £14.95
House History Starter Pack £10.99
Immigrants and Aliens - A guide to sources on UK immigration and Citizenship £12.99
Inns & Outs £5.00
Jeremy's Walk through Cromer Hyde £2.00
John Newsom (educationist) £14.99
Lemsford Village History £2.50
Letchworth Garden City - pocket images £5.99
Literary Walks in Hertfordshire £6.95
Manorial economy & society in Shenley 50p
Marshalswick: The story of a House and its Estate £6.00
Medieval Parks of Hertfordshire £18.99
Merryhill School (Bushey)£5.00
Non-conformity in Herts - a guide to sources £6.00
Old Hitchin £14.99
Our Boys: Ware Men in the First World War £9.95
Panshanger and it's people £5.00
Parks and Gardens of West Herts £10.00
Pemberton Alsmhouses (St Albans) £4.00
Pictures in my memory (of Wareside) 50p
Portrait of Widford £5.00
PRO(National Archives) pocket guides £5.00
Pub walks in the Chilterns £5.95
Pub walks in Hertfordshire £4.95
Removal Orders £10.00
Rex's walk through Lemsford Village £2.00
Rickmansworth: A Pictorial History £6.99
Rickmansworth Park booklet £3.00
Rivers Nursery of Sawbridgeworth-The Art of Practical Pomology £10.00
Romans in Stevenage £2.99
Royston 1900 - A year in the life of a small market town £7.95
Sarratt & the Draper of Watford £9.75
Settlement Certificates £12.50
St Albans Borough Boundary 50p
St Albans 1553 £3.99
St Albans 1650 - 1700 £16.00 TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
St Nicholas Church, Stevenage £5.00
Smart Family History £6.99
Stevenage Past £6.95 TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
Short walks from pubs in the Chilterns £4.95
Take 6 carrots...(recipes of the Wilshere family £4.00
Take the train from Hitchin £9.95
The Artist and the Organist: The Luppinos of Hertford and Ware £9.95
The Churches of Thundridge £3.50
The common people are not nothing (conflict in religion and
politics in Herts) £9.95
The Courts and Yards of Hertford £2.00
The Cuffley Story £20.00
The End of the Line - The Story of the Railway Service to the Great Northern London Cemetery £5.00
The Bridewells of Hitchin £2.95
The Genealogist's Internet (expanded edition) £14.99
The History of Sele Farm £3.00
The Little Book of Hitchin £7.99
The Manor of Park in the 14th century 50p
The Story of Abbey School - A nineteenth century National School (St Albans)£4.95
Scott of Amwell: Dr Johnson's Quaker critic £9.95
The Story of Hertford - An Illustrated History of Hertford Through The Ages £2.00 TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
The Story of Loudwater Mill, Loudwater Farm, Loudwater House from medieval times to the eraly 20th century £4.00
The Street Memorials of St Albans Abbey Parish £4.95 TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
The Ware Mutiny 1647 £4.50
Thomas Smith 1798 - 1875 Architect of Note £2.00
Thoughts on Old Ricky £2.50
Three Acre Triangle (North Road, Hertford) £4.00
Thundridge churches guide £2.50
Timber framed buildings in Watford 20p
Tracing History of your House £15.99
Tracing the History of Houses £7.95
Tracing your Family History in Hertfordshire £9.99
Transported beyond the seas £8.00
Trawling for Treasures: 80 years of Barnet's Local History £10.00
Tring: A Pictorial History £6.95
Ware at War 1939-1945 £12.95
Ware's Past in Pictures £16.99
Wareside: see Pictures in My Memory
We Grew Up Fast: Recollections of the second World War 1939-1945 as told to Eleanor Clarke by men and women of Chorleywood £8.99
Welwyn Garden City Past £15.99
West Street, Hertford £7.99
Whigs versus Tories - Hertfords's Parliamentary Representation £5.50
Wickham of Ware £14.95
Wills at Hertford 1415 to 1858 - British Records Society £35.00
Women's Work in Industrial England - Regional & Local Perspectives £14.95