Buckinghamshire History Festival

Buckinghamshire Archives

Bringing history home! From pioneering women professionals to a futuristic escapade to save the world’s archives, join us as we connect you with local stories and hidden histories from further afield, through video talks, podcasts, blogs, and interactive events for families.

  1. 11/26/2021

    Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company

    Katherine Gwyn talks to Louise Allen about her involvement with Bucks Archives' Black History Research Group, and her research into the connections between a company based at Slough Trading Estate and Pitch Lake, Trinidad. **29 min**

  2. 11/24/2021

    Mary does Marlow

    Mark Bateman (Buckinghamshire Libraries) interviews arguably Marlow's most famous resident, author of Frankenstein's Monster, and inventor of the science fiction genre, Mary Shelley.   **20min**

  3. 11/24/2021

    A Burial in Oving, 1946: the life of George Laurence Bazett Hull and his crew

    Wing Commander George Laurence Bazett Hull died in an air crash in 1946, and was buried in Oving, Buckinghamshire.  When a team of archaeologists and historians found the wreckage of this crash in a field in 2017, they did not anticipate the journey that Hull, or 'BOK' as he was known to some, would take them on.  Here is that story.   **46 min**

  4. 11/19/2021

    Black Bucks Lives: Samson Ethiope, the Herberts, Henery Pompey and Catherine Duleep Singh

    Tony Sargeant talks Archivist Katherine Gwyn through some of his research into Black Lives in Buckinghamshire, conducted as part of Buckinghamshire Archives' Black History Research Group.  The lives discussed include Samson Ethiope, Pharo, Ann, John and Mary Herbert, Henery Pompey and Catherine Duleep Singh.   **33 min**

  5. 11/19/2021

    Dillibe Onyeama: A Black Boy at Eton

    In 1969 Dillibe Onyeama became the first Black pupil to finish his studies at Eton College, which was then in Buckinghamshire.  Three years later he published his memoirs documenting that experience.  Dillbe has gone on to have a long and successful career in publishing, and as an author.  Ahead of Penguin's new edition of his first book, Judi McGinley and Katherine Gwyn link-up with Dillibe from his home in Nigeria.   Pre-order A Black Boy At Eton here: https://amzn.to/32i6sMI

  6. 11/17/2021

    Where are the Black Lives at Bucks Archives? A conversation with Dr Caroline Bressey

    Here at Buckinghamshire Archives we have been running a project during 2021: the Black History Research Group, with the aim of hunting through our collections to find Black Lives that date to before 1948.  But we were struggling - this is a hard ask.  So Katherine Gwyn reached out for help, and who better than Dr Caroline Bressey?  Caroline has researched black Victorians in London, and was sure to have some wisdom to share... **22 min**

  7. 11/15/2021

    Gardening and Historic Garden Preservation: Turn End and Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust

    Gardens are important but highly changeable elements of our physical and cultural landscape; can the needs of gardeners and historians ever reconcile?   Claire de Carle of Buckinghamshire Garden Trust talks with Jackie Hunt, Gardener at Turn End in Haddenham.  Claire and Jackie discuss recent research by the Buckinghamshire Garden Trust into mid to late 20th century gardens and designed landscapes in the county and focus on Peter's Aldington's Turn End, the only post-war English Listed house and garden created by the same hand. What other projects in Buckinghamshire have been proposed for recognition and protection? What was architect Peter Aldington's ethos for creating his village houses and garden in Haddenham in the 1960s?  How can we help raise awareness and recognition of post war landscape projects? https://bucksgardenstrust.org.uk/ https://www.turnend.org.uk/ https://local-heritage-list.org.uk/buckinghamshire   **18 mins**

  8. 11/12/2021

    Loving High Wycombe: Jay Blades in conversation with Helena Chance

    The Repair Shop's Jay Blades talks to Design Historian Helena Chance about his time based in High Wycombe, as a student, leader of youth engagement projects, and learner furniture restorer.  The conversation covers Jay's love of High Wycombe furniture by Gomme and Parker Knoll, his time at Buckinghamshire New University, what life's like in the Repair Shop Barn, and his pride in his Dyslexia. **25 min**

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