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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.

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A century remembered £15.00
A New History of Ware, its people and its buildings £20.00
A history of Knebworth's parks £3.50
Alley & Ditch (Hertford) £4.99
Amwell and Stanstead's past in Pictures £14.95
An agricultural history of the parish of Wallington £4.00
An Historical Atlas of Hertfordshire £25.00
Another walk through Much Hadham £7.50
A walk through Little Hadham £7.50
Beating about the Bush: A History of Hertford Heath £9.99
Behind the Plough £12.99
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 TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
Buntingford Pocket Images £5.99
Cheshunt's Past in Pictures £14.95
Children of the Labouring Poor £14.99
Cinemas of Hertfordshire £9.99
Codicote Hedgerows £5.00
Codicote Landscape History Project £4.00
Cold baths don’t work: A History of Mental health Care in the Hitchin Area £12.95
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
Elizabeth Poston, Her Own Words £3.00
Elizabeth Poston, Post-Centenary Appreciation £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
George Orwell in Wallington: the original Animal Farm £4.00
Glimpses of Cottered, Throcking and Broadfield over the centuries £9.95
Guide to County Hall 50p
Hart Reguardant £2.00
Haunted Hertfordshire £10.99 revised & updated edition, Oct 2006
Hertford Pocket Images £5.99
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 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 £19.50
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 23 The Impact of The Civil War on Hertfordshire, 1642-47 £22.00
Vol 24 The Diary of Benjamin Woodcock, Master of the Barnet Union Workhouse, 1836-1838 £22.00
Vol 25 Datchworth Tithe Accounts 1711-1747. £22.00
Vol 27. Humphry Repton’s Red Books of Panshanger and Tewin Water, Hertfordshire 1799-1800 £30.00
Hertfordshire 1731 - 1800 As recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine £5.00
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’s Army Cadets - from 1886 to the present day £15.00
Hertfordshire Batteries Royal Field Artillery 1908-1920 £7.50
Hertfordshire Brasses £5.95
Hertfordshire Examinations £12.00
Hertfordshire Garden History - A Miscellany £16.99
Hertfordshire Gardens on Ermine Street £3.00
Hertfordshire's Icknield Way: 19th century Migration Frontier and Marriage Obstacle £9.50
Hertfordshire Monumental Inscriptions - Aspenden & Westmill
£4.00
Hertfordshire Monumental Inscriptions - Albury £5.00
Hertfordshire Monumental Inscriptions - Aldbury £5.00
Hertfordshire Monumental Inscriptions - Hertford, St Andrew £7.00
Hertfordshire Monumental Inscriptions - Hertford, All Saints £8.00
Hertfordshire Monumental Inscriptions - Little Hadham £5.00
Hertfordshire Monumental Inscriptions - Thundridge, St Mary, Old Church & St John, High Cross; £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
Herts V.R: An account of the Hertfordshire Volunteer Regiment and other units raised in Hertfordshire 1914-1921 £12.00
Hertfordshire Windmills and Windmillers £10.00
Hertfordshire Yeomanry: A Biographical List of the Officers 1794-1920 £5.00
Hertfordshire Yeomanry: An Illustrated History 1794-1920 £12.50
Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiments, Royal Artillery. Part 1: The Field Regiments 1920-1946 £15.00
Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiments, Royal Artillery Part 2 & Part 3 £15.00
Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Honours and Awards £7.50
Historic Buildings of Stevenage £5.00
History of Sele Farm £3.00
Hitchin Arcade: Then and Now £9.95. Temporarily out of stock
Hitchin Priory Park £12.95
Hoddesdon: A History £13.99
Hoddesdon's Past in Pictures £14.95
Home Guard in Hertfordshire, The 1952-1957 £12.00
House History Starter Pack £10.99
Immigrants and Aliens - A guide to sources on UK immigration and Citizenship £12.99. Temporarily out of stock
Jeremy's Walk through Cromer Hyde £2.00
John Newsom (educationist) £14.99
Lemsford Village History £2.50
Lemsford, Historical Map of The Parish of Lemsford, 1859-2010 £2.00
Letchworth Garden City - pocket images £5.99
Literary Walks in Hertfordshire £6.95
Mammals, Amphibians & Reptiles of Hertfordshire; £20.00
Manorial economy & society in Shenley 50p
Medieval Parks of Hertfordshire £18.99
Memories of Chiswell Green £5.75
Men of Iron - A History of Boxmoor's Ironworks 10.00
Merryhill School (Bushey)£5.00
Non-conformity in Herts - a guide to sources £6.00
Northaw… and so much more £15.00
Old Hitchin £14.99
Panshanger and it's people £5.00
Paper Pioneers £10.00
Parks and Gardens of West Herts £10.00
Pemberton Almshouses (St Albans) £4.00
Phebe's Hitchin Book (c19th memoirs) £10.95
Pictures in my memory (of Wareside) 50p
Pioneering Women - origins of Girton College, Hitchin £8.95
Pirton - A Village in Anguish : The story of the 30 men from a Hertfordshire Village who died in WW1; £9.95
Place House, Ware £5.00
Pride of Pirton, The £19.95
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 £16.00
St Albans an Illustrated arm-chair walk £2.50
St Albans Borough Boundary 50p
St Albans 1553 £3.99
St Albans 1650 - 1700 £16.00
St Nicholas Church, Stevenage £5.00
Sawbridgeworth, the Story of £7.50
Scott of Amwell : Dr Johnson’s Quaker critic £9.95
Smart Family History £6.99
Short walks from pubs in the Chilterns £4.95
Take 6 carrots...(recipes of the Wilshere family £4.00
Tales of the Old Frog of Weston £12.00
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 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
The Story of Loudwater Mill, Loudwater Farm, Loudwater House from medieval times to the early 20th century £4.00
The Ware Mutiny 1647 £4.50
The wood carver of Woolmer Green: the story of Harry MacDonald £4.00
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 £3.50
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 £10.00
Trawling for Treasures: 80 years of Barnet's Local History £10.00
Tring: A Pictorial History £6.95
Walkern: St Mary's transcribed baptisms 1930-2005 £6.00
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
'We have to deal with the farmers'. Episode in the history of North Hertfordshire in the 19th and 20th centuries; £7.50
Welwyn Garden City Past £15.99
West Street, Hertford £7.99
Whigs versus Tories - Hertford's Parliamentary Representation £5.50
Wickham of Ware £14.95. Temporarily out of stock
Wills at Hertford 1415 to 1858 - British Records Society £35.00 (Now indexed on Hertfordshire Names online)
Women's Work in Industrial England - Regional & Local Perspectives £14.95