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BLHN Conferences since the year 2000:

Speakers and their subjects

The Buckinghamshire Local History Network has held annual conferences since the year 2000. These annual conferences are listed here from the most recent to the earliest, with the subjects of each talk and the speaker who gave it.

2022: The cottage industries of Buckinghamshire Pots and potters in Buckinghamshire

Michael Farley, of the Bucks Archaeological Society The lace industry in Buckinghamshire

Marian Swindells, of the Cooper and Newton Museum Straw plaiting in Bucks

Veronica Main, Of the Chilterns Conservation Board The Bucks Archaeological Society Joan Elding Awards 2022

presented by Sandy Kidd, of Historic England

• Mike Farley, for a lifetime contribution to the county's archaeology

• Tabatha Barton and Milton Keynes Museum, for the Bancroft Roman mosaic Chair making as a cottage industry

Catherine Grigg, of Wycombe Museum Needle making in Long Crendon

Julian Hunt, of Bucks Archaeological Society Are we just careless with our industries?

Peter Marsden PLUS ‘Bucks Local History Fair’

with stands by 13 local history, archaeology and heritage societies, including displays on Buckinghamshire's cottage industriesa

2021: Shopping in Buckinghamshire

– from medieval market places to modern retail parks (in-person and online) Buckinghamshire market places

Julian Hunt, president of the Bucks Archaeological Society Closed for stocktaking: Shops, market stalls and inventories in Winslow 1588-1750

David Noy, of the Winslow History Project Shops and shopkeepers in High Wycombe in the late 18th century

Jackie Kay, Trustee, High Wycombe Society From market town to Metroland – a history of shopping in Amersham

Alison Bailey, Trustee, Amersham Museum From market town to Metroland – a history of shopping in Amersham

Alison Bailey, Trustee, Amersham Museum Retailing 2021: Past, present and future

David Thorpe, founder of Bucks Local History Network PLUS ‘Bucks Local History Fair’

with stands, displays and online web pages by 12 local history, archaeology and heritage societies, including research on Buckinghamshire shops and shopping

CLICK HERE TO View the 2021 Bucks Local History Fair website

2020: Wellers, Wethereds, Wheelers and the ABC

– Buckinghamshire brewers through three centuries (delivered On-line) Wethereds of Marlow

Janet Smith, vice-president of the Marlow Society Wellers of Amersham

Alison Bailey, Trustee of Amersham Museum Wheelers of High Wycombe

Jackie Kay, Trustee of High Wycome Society ABC: the Aylesbury Brewery Company

Julian Hunt, President of Bucks Archaeological Society PLUS ‘Bucks Virtual Local History Fair’

with ‘virtual stands’ by 18 local history, archaeology and heritage societies, including research on Buckinghamshire brewing and breweries

CLICK HERE TO View the 2020 Bucks Local History Fair website

2019: Social Housing in Buckinghamshire – from almshouses to Right-to-Buy Social housing under the first Poor Law 1600-1834

Professor John Broad, editor of Records of Buckinghamshire Marlow's overworked workhouse: Problems caused by the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act

Janet Smith 1919: ‘Homes fit for Heroes’

Peter Marsden, Chair of Bucks Archaeological Society Social Housing in Amersham 1919-1945

Emily Toettcher, Curator of Amersham Museum Blitz, Bletchley and Milton Keynes: The decentralisation of London after World War 2

Professor Mark Clapson, University of Westminster The deconstruction of council and social housing since 1979

John Boughton, author of ‘Municipal Dreams: The rise and fall of council housing’

2018: Archaeology ahead of the HS2 rail line HS2 Archaeology: The Buckinghamshire perspective

Eliza Alqassar of Buckinghamshire Archaeology Service READ THE REPORT >> How the HS2 archaeology project can throw light on human interaction with the landscape in central England across time

Jay Carver, Lead Archaeologist for Fusion and HS2 Archaeology within a large infrastructure project and early insights from the urgent-work programme of 2017-18

Richard Brown, Cotswold-Oxford-PCA archaeology team The Lost Village of Doddershall

Dr Paul Stamper of the Connect archaeology team Stoke Mandeville: Archaeology in a country churchyard

Andrew Harris, Fusion heritage specialist, and Guy Hunt of LP Archaeology Archaeological reconnaissance and magnetometry for large-scale landscape assessment

Jay Carver, Lead Archaeologist for Fusion and HS2 Buckinghamshire and the railways last time around

Julian Hunt of the Bucks Archaeological Society

2017: Buckinghamshire Land and People Who owned Buckinghamshire in 1798?

Dr John Broad, editor of Records of Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire and Parliament 1820-1868

Dr Peter Salmon, editor, History of Parliament The continuing controversy on the origin of open fields and ridge and furrow

Dr David Hall From Tudor plaisaunces to Central Milton Keynes – discovering hidden gems of Bucks gardens

Dr Sarah Rutherford, founding member of the Bucks Gardens Trust Costing the earth – Buckinghamshire and English gardens since 1660

Professor Sir Roderick Floud Buckinghamshire's Turnpike Roads 1706-1881

Peter Gulland

2016: Buckinghamshire's Time Team Human activity in the Buckinghamshire Middle Thames from 10,000 BCE to Roman times – the evidence of Kingsmead Quarry, Horton

Alistair Barclay Researching the Iron Age and Roman landscapes around Aylesbury

Sandy Kidd Settlement in Buckinghamshire during the Saxon period

Mike Farley The Evolution of the Landscape in North Buckinghamshire - the evidence from Broughton

Rob Atkins The Saxon and Medieval History of Wycombe Heath, Penn, Common and King's Woods

Miles Green The Context of the Lenborough Hoard

Susan Fern

2015: Buckinghamshire Towns The Evolution of Eton and Windsor – a Historic Towns Trust Atlas

David Lewis High Wycombe before Chairmaking

David Green The Birth of Milton Keynes

Professor David Lock Subtopia and other suburban development in Buckinghamshire before Metroland 1840-1914

Dr David Thorpe The Medieval Town

Emeritus Professor Christopher Dyer

2014: Defining Buckinghamshire The Origins of Buckinghamshire – sashes and Buckingham

Jeremy Haslam Two competing county towns, Aylesbury and Buckingham

Edward Grimsdale The County Maps of the 16th to 18th centuries

Tom Harper The Large-scale Maps of the Ordnance Survey 1840-1940

Dr Richard Oliver The Great War at Home

Dr Kate Tiller

2013: Power, Money and the Landscape in Buckinghamshire Roman villas and their landscape

Professor Keith Branigan Lord or Peasant? The origin of the nucleated village and the open fields, with special reference to North Bucks

Dr Richard Jones Theatres of Power: Buckinghamshire forests and chases

Dr Graham Jones Conspicuous display: The 18th-century great house, with special reference to Hartwell

Richard Wheeler of the National Trust Rothschild money moving a mountain: The creation and role of the Waddesdon gardens

Catherine Taylor Conserving the Chilterns, circa 1920-1950

Dr Roland Quinault

2012: Women in Buckinghamshire Royal Women and Anglo-Saxon Buckinghamshire

Professor Pauline Stafford Mrs Delany and the circle of the Duchess of Portland at Bulstrode in the C18

Clarissa Campbell Orr The Betsey Wynne Diaries – the Swanbourne Years

Dr Elaine Chalus The Nightingale Sisters and Claydon House

Sue Baxter The Suffragettes in Buckinghamshire

Rev Colin Cartwright The Buckinghamshire Lace industry

Julian Hunt

2011: Military Buckinghamshire Moats, mottes and castles: status and defence in medieval Buckinghamshire

Mike Farley The Buckinghamshire gentry and the Hundred Years War

Dr Andy King Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire in the Civil War

Dr Alan Thompson Portraits of the Civil War, and others

Sarah Gray Buckinghamshire and the First World War

Michael Senior The secret war in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley and beyond

Jonathan Byrne Portraits of Buckinghamshire military men

Sarah Gray The Buckinghamshire voluntary military tradition

Professor Ian Beckett

2010: Some great Buckinghamshire houses and their owners The Great Houses of Bucks – power, land and money

David Thorpe Nether Winchendon House and its family

Robert Spencer Bernard Chilton House – inheritance through the female line

Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher Ashridge – the Earls of Bridgewater and others

Mike Thompson Cliveden – the two Dukes, Buckingham and Sutherland

Charles Pugh The Rothschilds in Buckinghamshire

George Ireland Chequers

Rodney Melville

2009: Some great Buckinghamshire figures Edmund Weller of Beaconsfield

Julian Hunt The first Marquis of Wharton (‘honest Tom’) of Winchendon and Wooburn

Dr Robin Eagles The Earl of Shelburne, the first Buckinghamshire Prime Minister and MP for Wycombe

David Snoxell Benjamin Disraeli and Buckinghamshire

Roland Quinault John Hampden – the Buckinghamshire Connection

Roy Bailey Ettie Desborough of Taplow

Richard Davenport-Hines Buckinghamshire Artists

Sarah Gray

2008: Buckinghamshire's transport history The Transport History of North Buckinghamshire

Peter Jarvis Military Airfields in Buckinghamshire 1914-1945

Ken Delve A History of Canals in Buckinghamshire

Steve Morley The Traffic of Aylesbury Railway Station 1877-1904

Keith Bailey Turnpike Roads in Buckinghamshire

Peter Gulland Carriers and stage-coaches circa 1680-1840

Dorian Gerhold

2007: Buckinghamshire industries Buckinghamshire Industries in the Nineteenth Century – an overview of change

David Thorpe The History of Brewing in Buckinghamshire

Mike Brown The History of Brickmaking in Buckinghamshire

Michael Hammett The History of Papermaking in Buckinghamshire

Trevor Dean The History of the Wycombe Furniture Industry

Dr Clive Edwards Wolverton – the Buckinghamshire Industrial Town

John Brushe

2006 Buckinghamshire in the shadow of the Metropolis, 900-1500

Professor Derek Keene The Men of Nelson's Navy

Pam and Derek Ayshford Datchet in the Nineteenth Century and its Links with London

Janet Kennish Revising Pevsner's Buckinghamshire: exploring a county of contrasts

Dr Elizabeth Williamson

2004 West Wycombe Park: an 18th-century landscape of politics, sex and nature

Richard Wheeler The Household Accounts of Sir Edward Don of Horsenden and Saunderton, a Tudor Country Gentleman and Courtier

Professor Ralph Griffiths The Civil War in Buckinghamshire

Professor Ian Beckett Enclosure and Common Rights in Eighteenth-century Buckinghamshire

Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor

2003 Landscape Archaeology in Buckinghamshire

Sandy Kidd Woodland Industries in Bucks and Berks from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century

Professor E J T Collins The Black Death in Buckinghamshire

Julian Hunt

2002 Early Non-conformity in the Chilterns 1450-1700

Professor Margaret Spufford The Origins of the Buckinghamshire Village

Professor Christopher Dyer An Extra-ordinary Industry in North Bucks in the 19th Century

Neil Loudon The Fall of the Grenvilles in Perspective

Dr Roland Quinault Buckinghamshire in 1851 – the Evidence of the Census, a story beyond family history

Dr David Thorpe The Eighteenth Century Landscape Park in South Bucks

Dr David Brown

2001 Farms and Fields in North Buckinghamshire

Professor Michael Drake The Old Enemies: Buckingham and Aylesbury

Professor John Clarke