Buckinghamshire History Festival Podcast
1) 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...Show More
2) 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) 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 i...Show More
A Burial in Oving, 1946: the life of George Laurence Bazett Hull and his crew
46:03 | Nov 24th, 2021
4) 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 li...Show More
5) 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 experie...Show More
6) 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 1...Show More
Where are the Black Lives at Bucks Archives? A conversation with Dr Caroline Bressey
22:39 | Nov 17th, 2021
7) 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 ...Show More
8) 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 ...Show More
9) Top Tips for House History
Professional researcher and house historian Cathy Soughton gives us her top tips for starting your own house history. **7 min**
10) Two House Historians Through Time: Melanie Backe-Hansen in conversation with Cathy Soughton
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 e...Show More