Programme

Our 2023 programme: 23 Feb: '1926' - our speaker is our Chairman, Martyn Lockwood. 23 Mar: Annual General Meeting. 27 Apr: 'John Ray' - Jennifer Rowland. 25 May: Napoleonic Invasion Plans - Neil Wiffen. 22 Jun: 'Jersey under the Jackboot: the occupation of Jersey during WW2' - Patrick Griggs. 27 Jul: 'The Life and Times of William Byrd (c1540-1623): A Local History' - Andrew Smith. 26 Oct: 'The Prison at Hill Hall' - Anne Padfield. 23 Nov: Pre-Christmas meeting. Talk to be confirmed. Admission: Members £1, Non-members £5 Annual Membership: £15 (Family: £30)

Monday 5 August 2013

High Country History Group: Journal No. 48 (June 2013)

The Members' Quarterly Journal remembers Dr Rob Brooks, our Chairman, with the first part of his study course on the Royal Forest of Essex (pages 14 - 31).  The contents include:
- Report of the Annual General Meeting
- Tribute to Rob Brooks (1945-2013)
- From The Papers
- Stanford Rivers Incorporated Workhouse & the New Poor Laws
- Greensted Mystery: "The cover of the Journal shows an oil painting of the Reverend Benjamin Pratt, A.M., Founder of the Living of Greensted". But who was he?
- The Royal Forest of Essex
-- Introduction
-- I.  Anglo-Saxon Essex
-- II. The Norman and Angevin Kings
-- III. The Growth of Deer Parks
-- IV. Law and Order in the Forest
-- V.  Forest Fieldwork
- Essex Royalist Clergy - and Others: taken from Essex Review

High Country History Group: Journal No. 47 (March 2013)

The quarterly Journal (40 pages) of the High Country History Group given to subscribing members.  The March 2013 contents are as follows:
- The Epping Railway Company 1859-1863: taken from the Essex Review
- The Picture of St Edmund at Greensted Church: taken from the Essex Review
- What The Papers Say: extracts from Chelmsford Chronicle, Lincolnshire Echo and Essex Newsman
- Theydon Mount School
- This Might Be Useful
-- Family History Books Collection: http://familysearch.org/#form=books
-- Centenary of The Great War: http://www.1914.org
- Essex Quarter Sessions Order Book 1652-1661
- Sayings
-- A Square Meal
-- Show a Leg
- The Budworth Family of Greensted Hall
- Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton FRS (31 May 1845 - 15 February 1940)
- Ongar District Cottage Hospital War Memorial Scheme

Saturday 3 August 2013

Blackmore Area Local History: High Country History Group: Journal No 46

Blackmore Area Local History: High Country History Group: Journal No 46: Bringing the record of the High Country History Group's Journals up to date, the latest (December 2012) issue contains the following:...

Blackmore Area Local History: High Country History Group: Journal No 45

Blackmore Area Local History: High Country History Group: Journal No 45: The September 2012 edition of the quarterly Journal includes: Willingale Walk The Draper's Corner Oak The Shipwreck of Greensted&#...

Blackmore Area Local History: High Country History Group: Journal No 44

Blackmore Area Local History: High Country History Group: Journal No 44: The High Country History Group Journal No 44 was issued in June 2012.  Contents include: Hazards of Seventeenth Century Travel Ongar: A...

Blackmore Area Local History: High Country History Group: Journal No 43

Blackmore Area Local History: High Country History Group: Journal No 43: Journal No 43 is the High Country History Group was issued in March 2012. Contents include: Painting stolen from Greensted Church Chur...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 42

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 42: The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group was issued to members in December 2011.  It contains a number of items including...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 41

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 41: The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group was issued to members in September 2011.  It contains a number of items including: ...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 40

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 40: Journal No 40, quite a milestone for a rural historical society, was issued in June 2011.   Topics covered included: -           Thomas Lut...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 39

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 39: The quarterly magazine of the 'High Country History Group' (March 2011) contains the following items: - Reopening of Greenstead Chu...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 38

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 38: The January 2011 edition of 'The Journal', the magazine of the High Country History Group, contains the following items: - New Insig...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 37

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 37: This edition has been out for some while. The October 2010 edition includes: - Essex Dialect and Accent, Part 2 - William Byrd Library (publ...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 36

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 36: The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has recently been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond ...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 35

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 35: The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has recently been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond ...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 34

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 34: The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has recently been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond ...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 33

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 33: The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has recently been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond ...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 32

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 32: The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has recently been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 31

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 31: The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has just been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond the...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 30

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 30: The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has just been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond the...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 29

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No 29: The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has just been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond the...