Owners of Piccotts End cottage near Hemel Hempstead are holding an open day on the 10 Sep from 10 to 4 to showcase the 500 year old grade 1 listed cottage and its famous wall paintings and they would love to welcome local historical societies. The day is divided into hourly session which can be booked via Eventbrite here.

A series of events for the Battle of Marston Moor can be viewed here

The University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education invites you to join us for our annual Open Day at Madingley Hall on Saturday 1 April 2017.

Throughout the day, there will be opportunities to attend taster sessions on a variety of different subjects:

• “The ideal home in the 18th century”, a local history taster session with Dr Ken Sneath.
• “The Georgian ‘child support agency’: poor unmarried mothers, fathers and local history”, a local history taster session with Dr Samantha Williams.
• “A cuckoo in the nest? Medieval Cambridge and its university”, a history taster session with Dr Rosemary Horrox.
• Tours of Madingley Hall and Gardens.

There will also be the opportunity to chat with our academics 1 to 1 about your future study options here at the Institute, as well as special offers and discounts for enrolling on to our courses on the day.

View the full programme and book online at: Open Day

Don’t forget our final talk for this season is on Wed 8 Mar, by Julian Hunt, Buckinghamshire historian, ‘Berkhamsted, Tring and Aylesbury: rival market towns’. This meeting will be preceded by the AGM. Society meetings take place at 8:00pm in the Wellcome Great Hall, Town Hall, Berkhamsted. Visitors are always welcome @ £3 at the door.

Map shows the close proximity of markets in Aylesbury, Tring and ‘Berk Hempsd’ (from Vision of Britain website)

From the Ashridge volunteers website: “Welcome to Asscherugge, a medieval place name for today’s Ashridge and it’s environs – a royal ‘park’ from 1300.”

Keep up with the Ashridge volunteers here