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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**
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**
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 jo
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,
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 succe
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 har
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 En
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 fu
Professional researcher and house historian Cathy Soughton gives us her top tips for starting your own house history.**7 min**
All around the country people are itching to learn about the history of their home. This is driven by the success of the BBC series 'A House Through Time', which takes a property and over four episodes, explores the lives of some of the people
In September 2021 Katherine Gwyn sat down to talk virtually with Vicky Jackson and Poonam Gupta, two members of the team behind Aylesbury's annual Festival of Lights. They talk about Diwali, what it means, who celebrates it, what to say to ack
From Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020Milton Keynes has played a seminal role in the development of UK skateboarding culture. During the late 1980s and early 1990s it was the skateboarding capital of the UK and is still regarded by some as
From Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020In the early 2000s Milton Keynes had a problem with Skateboarders, who were drawn to skate the concrete and granite features of the city. Rather than shutting-down skateboarding throughout the city, M
From Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020When we went into Lockdown back in March, Jo Lester made the most of the extra time by picking up the threads of her family history. As part of the team at Buckinghamshire Libraries she knew that her
From Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020Andrew is Professor at the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester. After obtaining his doctorate on the extent of support for parliament in Civil-War Yorkshire at the Universit
From Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020Professor Ian Beckett retired as Professor of Military History from the University of Kent in 2015. He has been secretary to the trustees of the Buckinghamshire Military Museum since its inception in 1
From Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020Guy’s podcast sees him in conversation with Buckinghamshire Archives’ Chris Low, who first met Guy thirteen years ago when he arrived in Aylesbury to research the proposed, but never constructed, Milto
From Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020In her podcast for Buckinghamshire History Festival, The Surprising History of the Smock Frock, Alison weaves a tale of costume history, charting the humble smock from its origins as an over garment fo
From Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020In his podcast, Hidden Bucks, Martin discusses the fascinating titbits found in local deeds which shed light on the day-to-day lives of our ancestors. Searching a collection that spans from the 12th ce
From Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020David Luck has been in working in archives for 12 years, most recently in various roles at London Metropolitan Archives. He joined the Museum of the Mind in June 2019 as the archivist, and now looks af
From Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020In their podcast, Mary Brown and Pallavi Podapati discuss their mutual interest in the history of disability and sports, and the birth of the Paralympic Games in 1948, at Dr. Ludwig Guttman’s now legen
From Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020Catherine McIntyre is the archivist for Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre at Bradwell Abbey, and for Milton Keynes Museum. She also catalogued the collection for the Milton Keynes Development Corpora
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