Sir Thomas Smith of Saffron Walden

Sir Thomas Smith: scholar, statesman and son of Saffron Walden, by Jeremy Collingwood

SWHS Publications no 3 (2012), ed. Jacqueline Cooper, 72 pages. ISBN 978-1-873669-08-2, price £7.50 One of Saffron Walden’s most distinguished sons, Sir Thomas Smith was the first Regius Professor of Civil Law, and Vice-Chancellor, at Cambridge, Provost of Eton, Principal Secretary of State to Edward VI and Elizabeth I, ambassador to France and the Low Countries, Privy Councillor, and – …

The Place Names of Saffron Walden, by Malcolm White

SWHA Publications no 2 (2011), ed. Jacqueline Cooper, 100 pages. ISBN 978-1-873669-04-4, price £8.50 The author, when Saffron Walden Town Clerk, often advised on the naming of new streets, as had another former Town Clerk, Cliff Stacey. The Town Council liked to use old field names as this helped to perpetuate the town’s history. A primary source for the book …

Land, Agriculture and Industry in North-west Essex: spotlights on a land remembered, by Geoffrey Ball

SWHS Publications no 1 (2009 reprinted 2014), ed Jacqueline Cooper, 86 pages. ISBN 978-1-873669-02-0, price £7.50 Agriculture and its associated industries have been at the centre of life and work in north-west Essex for many centuries. This book examines different examples of farming in the past and the industries processing its main local products (malt and wool). It also contains …