Journal No 39 has many interesting articles focussing on Saffron Walden again including memories by Bruce Munro, The Bells of St. Mary’s Church & Japan in Saffron Walden : The Grand Japanese Bazaar. Other Subjects included The restoration of Kings Mill at Littlebury by Bernard Jones The Francis Gibson Family & “The Quaker Line” by Jane Cole & Anne Hughes

Lavishly illustrated with old maps and artworks in full colour, and offers a fascinating insight into the countryside around Audley End

The Society’s lectures for 2021 to 2022

Journal No 38 has an eclectic mix of stories as diverse as press freedom in the eighteenth century to WW2 evacuation and invasion of Saffron Walden! Other Subjects included A Cement Works for Saffron Walden by Geoffrey Ball Henry Winstanley’s Women by Martin Rose Finding the Lost Church of Little Wenden by Robert Wilson Gold & Silver Treasures Acquired by

Journal No 37 has many interesting articles focussing on Saffron Walden including his well known memories by Bruce Munro, policing in the Town and Peace Celebrations 1919. Other Subjects included Crossing the River Cam by Lizzie Sanders Richard Pettit (1752 -1824) Farmer, Miller, Clock-maker and Baptist Minister, a Man of Many Talents by Mike Furlong Murder, Mystery & my Family:

Journal No 36 has an interesting mix of stories from the loss of the town’s largest company to the Centenary of Armistice day. Other Subjects included Why was there a Quaker School in Saffron Walden?-by Tony Watson Memories of Bletchley Park in Wartime by Doris Lucy Saffron Walden Initiative: 20 years on by Peter Riding The Turbulent Times of Margaret

Journal No 35 is packed with a mix of stories from women’s’ suffrage to aspects of village life and intriguing history of Saffron Walden. Other Subjects included On being Saffron Walden MP; a reflection – by Sir Alan Hazlehurst. Saffron Walden Underground- by Malcolm White George Stacey Gibson- a pioneering Essex Naturalist by Martyn Everett The Spanish Flu Epidemic of

Up and coming lectures for the Society in 2021 – 2022

There are now over 100 articles freely available on the Saffron Walden History website, taken selectively from out-of-print issues of the Saffron Walden Historical Journal

Saffron Walden Historical Society 2021 Wednesday, 22nd September: ‘The Young Charles Darwin in Cambridge’ Murray Jacobs (Meeting House) Wednesday, 20th October: MARY WHITEMAN MEMORIAL LECTURE The Battle of Britain (Meeting House) Neil Wiffen Wednesday, 24th November: ‘Aspects of Walden’s Medieval Ritual Landscape’ Simon Coxall (Meeting House) Wednesday, 15th December: ‘Misdemeanours and Misdoings: the Victorian Servant Problem’ Dr Judith Hill (On

Journal No 34 looks at various aspects of agriculture and its impact on this area, including revolution, first world war farming as well as the regular shows held in Saffron Walden. Other Subjects included Treasure at Chesterford by Jacqueline Cooper The Braybrook Succession by Sarah Kirkpatrick Uttlesford before the Conquest by James Kemble David Campbell & the world we have