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 –

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

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

‘What a Place to Die’: the WW2 plane crash at Little Walden – Julian Evan-Hart

History of Four Acres Community, Saffron Walden 1962-2012 – John E. Maddams

Duck Street and a Lost Village at Audley End – Lizzie Sanders Miss Gale – David Lamb The Turf Maze on Saffron Walden Common – Jeff Saward Wicken House Residential Youth Centre: some memories of the  early years – Heather Salvidge Orford House, Ugley – Taleyna Fletcher Carting water to Wimbish Bronze Age Hoards in NW Essex – Carolyn Wingfield

No 22: Autumn 2011 The Demolition Line: WW2 Defences Littlebury Bridge to Shortgrove  Bridge – Michael Barton The Bridges of the Cam Professor Steve Osbourne – renowned diver and swimmer: Dave Twitchett The Crawley Agrimotor of Saffron Walden – Geoffrey Ball Mission Continued 1711–2011 – John Maddams Hunting for the Bones of Abraham Green – David Melford Obituary: James Griffin

No 21: Spring 2011 ‘Say it with Flowers’: the Engelmann Nursery, Saffron Walden – Geoffrey Ball House Renovation Project Blog – Douglas Kent Saffron Walden ERO Archive Access Point – Zofia Everett Obituary: Lawrence D. Barker 1939-2011 Saffron Walden Youth Hostel Water Wells & Handpumps of Uttlesford – Sibyl Thomas The Plough at Radwinter – Michael Southgate Chrishall Museum

No 20: Autumn 2010 Saffron Walden and the Battle of Britain: the ‘Few’ lie here  –  Malcolm White Saffron Walden Christmas Fatstock Show c1955  –  Bruce Munro The Potato: early history and the struggle for acceptance  –  Geoffrey Ball Saffron Walden Museum’s 175th Anniversary  –  Carolyn Wingfield Conserving the Town Archives Saffron Walden Historical Journal 2001-2010  –  Gordon Ridgewell Windmill

Brocwalden, Brook Walden, Audley End Village (Pt 2)  –  Lizzie Sanders The Moat Farm Murder – new documents  –  Jacqueline Cooper The Mysteries of the Woolstaplers’ Hall  –  Martyn Everett An Introduction to Essex Poll Books as a Local History Source  –  Gillian Williamson A Trawl through our Crime Records 1657-1817  –  Jeremy Collingwood Letters to the Editor: The Sun

No 18: Autumn 2009 The Pargetting on the Westernmost Gable of the Old Sun Inn, Saffron Walden  –  Bari Hooper Nos 25-27 Church Street, Saffron Walden: the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings comes to the rescue  –  Douglas Kent Vineyards in NW Essex  –  Geoffrey Ball Uttlesford History Fair  –  Gordon Ridgewell Change in the Market Place  –