August 22, 2026
More often than not, history is concerned with the activities of the great and the good. It is a rare event indeed to be able to give an account of the adventurous life of a farm labourer born in a remote rural community almost…
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August 15, 2026 • posted in Articles
Return of ‘The Cuckoo’
Some years ago while perusing the stock in a well-known Saffron Walden antique shop, I chanced upon an unusual, and at the time unidentified iron object
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August 13, 2026 • posted in Recommended Reading
Radwinter to Beeleigh Abbey
This booklet is attractively presented with a subtitle designed to lure the reader in by referring to a medieval route of paths and a river cutting through the ‘Heart of Essex’
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August 7, 2026 • posted in Recommended Reading
The Map that Changed the WORLD
This book is about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological map of England, Wales and southern Scotland.
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July 25, 2026 • posted in Recommended Reading
Reuben’s Corner
This book has been referred to as a minor classic. It covers the early part of the author’s life, in the village of Ashdon.
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July 18, 2026 • posted in Articles
Hunger Marchers in Saffron Walden (‘We refuse to starve in silence’)
The Hunger Marches took place in Britain between 1922 and 1936 against a background of severe unemployment
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July 6, 2026 • posted in Articles
Samuel Pepys and Saffron Walden
Samuel Pepys began his diary at the age of 27 years on 1st January 1660. At Audley End, Pepys somewhat seditiously drank the health of Charles II who was not to return from exile for another four months.
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June 30, 2026 • posted in Articles
Braybrookes-The Succession
The recent death of the 10th Lord Braybrooke, and subsequent national and local press stories around the title only going to a male heir.
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June 24, 2026 • posted in Articles
Four Acres Community, Saffron Walden 1962-2012
A front page report in the Saffron Walden Weekly News of 20 November 1959 declared: £65,000 FOR ELDERLY FOLK’S HOME
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June 18, 2026 • posted in News
SOCIETY MEMBERS GO UNDERGROUND
On 17th June 2026 for their annual summer outing, a group from the Society took a dive into Royston Cave,
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June 16, 2026 • posted in Articles
Portrait: David Campbell (1921-2001)
Everyone and no-one knew David Campbell. Everyone from Rab Butler and Stanley Wilson to the little boy playing an angel in the Nativity play
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June 10, 2026 • posted in Articles
Gold Street Chapel
I was born in Walthamstow, in April 1940 during the WW2 Blitz. As a family we were sent to live in Saffron Walden,
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