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February 27, 2025 • posted in News

British Association for Local History sings our Praises!

Saffron Walden Historical Journal appears in the latest BALH newsletter as, in the last 25 years since they started awards, our Journal has won 8 times, which is the second most number out of all the journals reviewed.
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February 25, 2025 • posted in Articles

Ethnography at Saffron Walden Museum

Upstairs, in the semi-darkened rooms of Saffron Walden Museum, there lies a remarkable collection of cultural artefacts from all around the world, many of them gathered at the height of Victorian collection fever.
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February 22, 2025 • posted in Articles

Site of the Battle of Assandun, 1016

The Battle of Assandun was the event which eventually gave Cnut the Crown of England.
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February 18, 2025 • posted in Articles

Carnival v Festival

‘About five minutes television film time’, estimated BBC Director, Don Howarth, when questioned by a Weekly News reporter about the results of a To-Night television film team’s visit to Saffron Walden on Sunday.
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February 10, 2025 • posted in Articles

Francis Gibson’s Garden

Francis Gibson (1805–58), the youngest of Atkinson Francis Gibson’s children, conceived and designed Bridge End Garden, previously known as Fry’s Gardens.
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February 4, 2025 • posted in Articles

Littlebury-a walk back in time around the bounds

On Sunday 21 May 2006 the History Group of the Parish of Littlebury Millennium Society re-created the ancient tradition of beating the parish bounds.
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January 31, 2025 • posted in Articles

Lief Aalbu’s Scrapbook

Amongst the papers of former Town Clerk H. C. Stacey in the Saffron Walden Town Library is a cheap red scrapbook that provides a unique insight into life in Saffron Walden during the second half of WW2
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January 30, 2025 • posted in News

Thaxted’s John Webb Windmill to be restored

John Webb’s or Lowe’s Mill is a 221 year old Grade II* listed[1] tower mill at Thaxted, Essex, England, which was closed to the public in 2018 after eroding brickwork led to extensive internal damage.
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January 24, 2025 • posted in Articles

Saffron Walden Borough Arms Deo Adjuvante Floremus

In 1784 William Robinson jnr made a drawing which included the Borough Arms as used then, based on the 1688 seal made after the 1685 Charter.
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