A small group of Quakers began meeting in Saffron Walden in the middle of the 17th century, before non-conformist religions were tolerated. Magistrates initially persecuted the Quakers and they were heavily fined for meeting openly.

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 200 years ago.

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

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’

This book is about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological map of England, Wales and southern Scotland.

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.

The Hunger Marches took place in Britain between 1922 and 1936 against a background of severe unemployment

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.

The recent death of the 10th Lord Braybrooke, and subsequent national and local press stories around the title only going to a male heir.

A front page report in the Saffron Walden Weekly News of 20 November 1959 declared: £65,000 FOR ELDERLY FOLK’S HOME

On 17th June 2026 for their annual summer outing, a group from the Society took a dive into Royston Cave,