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Saffron Walden Historical Journal No 27 (Spring 2014)

The wide-ranging impact of the First World War on life in Saffron Walden is the theme of the Spring 2014 issue of the Saffron Walden Historical Journal

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    Saffron Walden Historical Journal No 49 Spring 2025
    The latest edition of the Saffron Walden Historical Journal (No 49 – Spring 2025) is now on sale (£5) at the Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre, Harts bookshop, the Town Museum and the Saffron Walden Historical Society.

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The Saffron Walden Historical Society, founded in 1933, organises eight lectures a year and publishes a magazine, the SWHJ, twice a year. We welcome new members

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BBC News - Ethelred the Unready coin hoard found by Maldon detectorist - BBC News

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Ethelred the Unready coin hoard found by Maldon detectorist

The coins were minted by a Saxon king but could not prevent an upsurge in Viking raids, says expert.

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Mike Hibbs, SWHS President, Helen Lunnon, Editor of the SW Historical Journal and the Deputy Mayor of Saffron Walden, Cllr Jeanette Curtis, at the launch of the splendid new-style SWHJournal at Harts at the end of April.

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@NicholasOShaug1 For a flavour of the makeup of post-war high tables, the famous 1968 letter to the junior members from the SCR of Wadham comes to mind.

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Higher Education Postcard: Wadham College, Oxford

This week's postcard from Hugh Jones' postbag comes from that sweet city with her dreaming spires

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the_book_land avatar The Book Land @the_book_land ·
2 May 2050696413135183963

'The Church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do
But stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards
In an age which advances progressively backwards?'

T. S. Eliot,
The Rock

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