How to celebrate Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee? The first suggestion, in January 1887, was to place a clock in the ...
Just taken a walk along the Lee just down from Kings Weir and noticed this “fort” was wondering what it ...
I went on leave to Alexandria and Port Said, having a grand time bathing in the sea. Reggie Abel Smith ...
The study of alchemy is generally associated with mediaeval or Renaissance figures such as Roger Bacon and Doctor John Dee. ...
Call up, Organising the Troops and Home Guard Duty
There have been several notorious highwaymen and footpads in Hertfordshire’s history. As elsewhere, the highwaymen (or women) have usually had ...
No county’s folklore would be complete without its tales of hauntings and ghostly apparitions. Hertfordshire is no exception, with tales ...
14 September at University of Hertfordshire
Cissi Pratt was born in 1899 and spent her childhood before the First World War in St Ippolyts (apparently then ...
