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The Stories

This year's stories from the Hertfordshire Community

    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
    • My Story
    • The Stories
    • The Artwork
    • What do you need to know?
    • What do you need to know?
    • The Artwork
    • The Stories
    • Ted Humphreys BEM
    • The Art Work
    • Businesses
    • African & Caribbean people in Herts before 1830
    • Armed Forces
    • Gypsies, Travellers and Showmen
    • Artists and Illustrators
    • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer
    • Scientists and Inventors
    • Sportspeople
    • Novelists, playwrights and poets
    • Local Folk
    • Politicians
    • Famous / Infamous
    • Nobility
    • Doctors and Nurses
    • Radcliffe Family and Hitchin Priory
    • Servants
    • George Paul: A Life in Hertford
    • Royalty
    • John Gravestock
    • Edward Lawrence - A Hertfordshire Man Remembers
    • Ebenezer Howard
    • Hertfordshire Centenarians
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