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Hertfordshire Traditions in Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies

  • A Great Bedbug...

    A Great Bedbug...

    Can a giant bed house a ghost with a giant grudge?
  • Artist Sally Miles' work for Traditional Hertfordshire

    Artist Sally Miles' work for Traditional Hertfordshire

    I am a Hertfordshire artist specialising in painting, drawing, printmaking and recently, illustrating. I trained in Fine Art at University ...
  • Children’s Games in Hertfordshire

    Children’s Games in Hertfordshire

    Like children everywhere in the world, the children of Hertfordshire passed on games from generation to generation
  • Cissi Pratt - Memories of St Ippolyts and Gosmore

    Cissi Pratt - Memories of St Ippolyts and Gosmore

    Cissi Pratt was born in 1899 and spent her childhood before the First World War in St Ippolyts (apparently then ...
  • Courtship Rituals in Hertfordshire

    Courtship Rituals in Hertfordshire

    In all pre-modern cultures, it was expected of young people to marry and contribute to the community’s next generation, so ...
  • Folk-Lore of Hertfordshire

    Folk-Lore of Hertfordshire

    A selection of ancient beliefs, charms, customs and proverbs and sayings from around Hertfordshire, extracted from “The Folk-Lore of Hertfordshire” ...
  • Funeral and Mourning Customs in Hertfordshire

    Funeral and Mourning Customs in Hertfordshire

    The last of the great landmark events of life, death has been regarded by almost every culture on earth as ...
  • Ghosts and Hauntings in Hertfordshire

    Ghosts and Hauntings in Hertfordshire

    No county’s folklore would be complete without its tales of hauntings and ghostly apparitions. Hertfordshire is no exception, with tales ...
  • Gleaning — Hertfordshire’s Original Foodbank

    Gleaning — Hertfordshire’s Original Foodbank

    The idea of leaving food for the poor to collect is by no means modern
  • Going a-Thomasing in Hertfordshire

    Going a-Thomasing in Hertfordshire

    Like most parts of the country, Hertfordshire had a number of “Mumping” days, when people could go around to homes ...
  • Henry Trigg’s House - Buried in the Roof

    Henry Trigg’s House - Buried in the Roof

    Many people think of Stevenage as being purely a new town, but the area around the High Street has as ...
  • Hertfordshire Customs Surrounding Childbirth

    Hertfordshire Customs Surrounding Childbirth

    Until the 20th century, both giving birth and being a baby were hazardous in the extreme.
  • Hertfordshire Puddingstone

    Hertfordshire Puddingstone

    Hertfordshire has a number of icons, from historical events to modern celebrities. One of the most unique and enduring, though, ...
  • Hock-Tide at Hexton

    Hock-Tide at Hexton

    In the far north-west of Hertfordshire, on the road from Hitchin to Barton-le-Clay, lies the small village of Hexton. Chiefly ...
  • Jack O’ Legs - Hertfordshire’s Robin Hood

    Jack O’ Legs - Hertfordshire’s Robin Hood

    When we think about the outlaw who’s a friend to the poor, we normally go straight to Robin Hood and ...
  • Jane Stretton — “The Hartfordshire Wonder”

    Jane Stretton — “The Hartfordshire Wonder”

    There are many tales, throughout the world and throughout history, of people claiming to have gone improbable lengths of time ...
  • Johane and Anne Harrison — Witches of Royston

    Johane and Anne Harrison — Witches of Royston

    In 1606, a pamphlet was published in London, telling of the conviction and execution of two Royston women, Johane (Joan) ...
  • Katherine Ferrers: The Wicked Lady - or was she?

    Katherine Ferrers: The Wicked Lady - or was she?

    Katherine Ferrers, ‘The Wicked Lady'...?
  • Lady Anne Grimston

    Lady Anne Grimston

    The Myth and the Truth
  • Mad Dog Disease  —  In Barkway

    Mad Dog Disease — In Barkway

    Before its causes and cure were known, outbreaks of “mad dog disease” could cause mass panic.
  • Marriage Customs in Hertfordshire

    Marriage Customs in Hertfordshire

    Along with birth and death, marriage is one of the three great milestones of a life in most traditional societies. ...
  • May Day Celebrations in Hertfordshire

    May Day Celebrations in Hertfordshire

    Hertfordshire has a long tradition of celebrating May Day – 1 May – the greatest secular festival of the year, ...
  • Old Man's Day - a Famous Braughing Tradition

    Old Man's Day - a Famous Braughing Tradition

    The attractive village of Braughing has long been famous for its locally made pork sausages, but it is also well ...
  • Peter the Wild Boy

    Peter the Wild Boy

    Tales of feral children brought up in the wild have long been popular. While the best known are fictional (from ...
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