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Nobility

  • A daughter marries
    A daughter marries
    Perhaps the most famous opening words of a novel are those of Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice concerning the ...
  • A Family Dispute
    A Family Dispute
    The two ilegitimate children of William, first earl Cowper, and his near neighbour, the heiress Elizabeth Culling survived their mother and ...
  • A Politician in Fear for his Freedom
    A Politician in Fear for his Freedom
    Reading letters from one major statesman to another can reveal more than just the plain facts of a political change ...
  • Adela Capel of Cassiobury House
    Adela Capel of Cassiobury House
    During the 1840s, Adela Capel was one of three children within the household of Cassiobury, and daughter of Arthur Algernon ...
  • Countess Cowper
    Countess Cowper
    Victorian high fashion
  • Lady Dacre (1817 to 1896)
    Lady Dacre (1817 to 1896)
    And an influential family in Kimpton
  • Lord Capel of Ware was taken prisoner at The Siege of Colchester
    Lord Capel of Ware was taken prisoner at The Siege of Colchester
    28th August 1648
  • Lord Desborough
    Lord Desborough
    Staging the 1908 Olympics
  • Lord Desborough
    Lord Desborough
    An all-round sportsman
  • Lord Sanderson of Ayot
    Lord Sanderson of Ayot
    The 1st Baron Sanderson of Ayot was created in the Birthday Honours of 1960 when Basil Sanderson was ennobled for ...
  • Managing one's servants
    Managing one's servants
    Human resource management issues are not new; the tricky problem of getting the best out of your staff was as ...
  • Sarah and Politics
    Sarah and Politics
    Politics* Political activity lay deep in Sarah’s heart.  She was a passionate Whig and as a woman had no direct authority ...
  • Shocking death of Viscount Melbourne - 1848
    Shocking death of Viscount Melbourne - 1848
    Tragedy at Brocket Hall
  • Sir Geoffrey de Mandeville — the Red-Cloaked Knight
    Sir Geoffrey de Mandeville — the Red-Cloaked Knight
    On the night of Christmas Eve 1932, a group of people met at a bridge over Pymms Brook in East ...
  • Sir George Faudel-Phillips (Bart) - 1840 to 1922
    Sir George Faudel-Phillips (Bart) - 1840 to 1922
    A great benefactor of Hertford
  • Sir Thomas Pope of Tittenhanger
    Sir Thomas Pope of Tittenhanger
    The Tower of London is an interesting but ultimately forbidding place even today. How much more so in the sixteenth ...
  • Talking treaties - Queen Anne Style
    Talking treaties - Queen Anne Style
    18th century talks with our European neighbours Britain is about to be launched into, and likely to remain in, long and ...
  • The Life of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon
    The Life of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon
    1582 to 1646
  • The Lord Chancellor's Natural Children: Part I
    The Lord Chancellor's Natural Children: Part I
      Lord Cowper’s Natural Son Scandalous behaviour in the gentry and aristocracy is nothing new but modern sensibilities would expect those in ...
  • The Mysterious Case of the Lawyer and the Heiress
    The Mysterious Case of the Lawyer and the Heiress
    Spencer Cowper and Sarah Stout
  • The Observations of Sir Charles Cornwallis
    The Observations of Sir Charles Cornwallis
    The Court of Philip III of Spain
  • The Old Palace
    The Old Palace
    On the Walk Round Old Hatfield
  • The Wicked Lady - a Song
    The Wicked Lady - a Song
    Click bar to the right to hear the song The Hertfordshire legend of Lady Katherine Ferrers, the Wicked Lady, has inspired ...
  • Earl Cowper's privateering ventures

    Earl Cowper's privateering ventures (4)

  • The Duchess of Marlborough

    The Duchess of Marlborough (18)

People
  • A father and son massacred in the New Hebrides
  • A Hard Life But a Happy One
  • A heroine who loved life (and more)
  • A SHOOTING IN WATTON - AT - STONE
  • A Short Personal Profile
  • Annie Swan, Suffragette
  • Audrey Collins OBE, Cricketer
  • Audrey Peattie, 1950's NHS Pathology Technician
  • Æthelflæd, Warrior Queen of the Mercians, 10th Century
  • Barbara Follett, Member of Parliament
  • Boudicca and her daughters, 30- 61 AD; the Terrorist – or freedom fighter?
  • Charles John Brewster Ray
  • Children of Hertfordshire
  • Christina of Markyate, Religious Visionary.
  • Cissi Pratt - Memories of St Ippolyts and Gosmore
  • Coleman connections
  • Cuffley Take Care
  • Dame Elizabeth Fuller, Education Pioneer.
  • Dame Ellen Terry, Actor
  • Dame Juliana Berners, Writer
  • Dame Margaret Tuke, Academic/Educator
  • Decorated Will
  • Delarivier Manley, Journalist
  • Denise Cook/Kelly
  • Dolly Shepherd, The Pioneering Edwardian Lady Parachutist
  • Dr Gladys Margaret Proudlock Dunbar
  • Dr Mary Groves Rowe MBE
  • Dr Miall-Smith, The Welwyn Garden City Doctor
  • E. Margaret Burnside, Midwifery Inspector
  • Elisabeth Hudson, Disability Campaigner
  • Elizabeth Baker, Playwright and Suffragette.
  • Elizabeth Impey, Suffragette
  • Emily Davies, Suffragette & Founder of Britain’s First Women’s College.
  • Family search
  • First Jump from Dreaded Balloon
  • George Eliot, Author
  • George Hill, last person executed in Hertford
  • Gwendoline Page – From Boreham Wood To Bletchley
  • Hatfield Mayor Lynne Sparks (2015-2016 Term)
  • Hertford County Constabulary
  • Herts Characters
  • Herts Hidden Heroines Project
  • Hilary Ratcliffe OBE, Gender Equality Campaigner
  • I was born at The Hoo on the Sixth of September, 1941!
  • In Black and White | Roger Britten |Royston's Printer (Part 1)
  • In Black and White | Roger Britten |Royston's Printer (Part 2)
  • Jane Hawking Jones, Educator & Author
  • Jane Wenham, The Accused Witch!
  • Judy Fryd CBE, Harpenden, campaigner & founder of Mencap.
  • Katherine Ferrers: The Wicked Lady - or was she?
  • Katherine Warington and Winifred Brenchley - Scientist
  • Kitty Hart-Moxon, Survivor
  • Lady Constance Lytton
  • Lady Constance Lytton, Suffragette
  • Lady Fanshawe - a Brave and Persistent Wife
  • Lavinia and William de Lautour
  • Lisa Buckingham OBE
  • Liz Hobbs MBE, Watersking Champion, Businesswoman
  • Looking for relatives of F/Lt Richard PICTON
  • Lorna Paulin, Hertfordshire County Librarian.
  • Louisa Puller, Suffragette
  • Lucy Shepherd, Explorer
  • Margaret & Annie Johnson - The First Hertfordshire Women Police Officers.
  • Margaret Murray, Egyptologist
  • Margaret Tyrwhitt Drake's Reference Book
  • Martine Wright, Paralympian & Campaigner
  • Mary Stout, Campaigner!
  • Mayor Lynne Sparks Speaks!
  • Micci Gorrod, Founder & Artistic Director of The Conscious Creative.
  • Mum's Story
  • Musical Memory Box
  • My early memories
  • My great-grandmother Annie Sears
  • P.C. Francis William Harmsworth ("Bill")
  • Peggy Hodges OBE, Aeronautical Engineer
  • Reba Younge, Educator, Anti-Racism Campaigner
  • Regina 4AD
  • ROBERT ORRIDGE BAXTER - EXECUTIONER
  • Ruth Osborne, The Accused Witch!
  • Syeda Momotaz Rahim, Community Activist
  • The Amazing Dolly Shepherd!
  • The ATA Girls (Air Transport Auxiliary) World War Two
  • The Reverend Samuel Briercliffe in Africa
  • The Timmins Family of Aldenham
  • Ursula Bloom, Music Maker For Silent Films
  • Victoria Farmer, Aviator
  • Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks 1895-1970
  • Wartime Nursing Memories
  • Yvonne Maslinksa, War Intelligence Worker
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