Before its causes and cure were known, outbreaks of “mad dog disease” could cause mass panic.
Snow 100 years ago also disrupted schooling. The log-book for Monken Hadley Infants School (HALS/HEd2/4/2) recorded: 24 Feb 1916: Snow so deep ...
How did “Take Care” begin and grow into The Leonard Cheshire Foundation in Cuffley?
I would like to find out more about Wormley West End. I lived there from 1937 until 1947/8, when the cottage was ...
Christmas Day in the Workhouse is a very sad story*. The poor, as recipients of charity, were dependent on the view ...
Professional cataloguing expectations can be daunting for non-archivists and volunteers working on community archive projects. The Community Archives and Heritage ...
“The place named for the meeting was Colney Heath, which, being a wild and desolate spot at a distance from ...
Joseph George Stokes and his wife Anne moved to Hoddesdon from Greenwich in about 1834, with their eldest children, Anne and Martha.
2018 will see the centenary of the signing of the Armistice but also of the single largest demographic disaster of the 20th ...
St Albans Steeplechase – the route Following the previous piece on this gone but not forgotten horse race in the St Albans area, ...
From the dawn of agriculture well into the 20th century, the cycle of the farming year was crucial to whether ...
The idea of leaving food for the poor to collect is by no means modern