Hertfordshire Publications
Hertfordshire in history: people, places, society; industry, craft and culture
Hertfordshire Publications was founded 40 years ago and became an imprint of the University of Hertfordshire Press in February 2001.
It publishes local history books in association with the Hertfordshire Association for Local History (HALH) whose membership includes both individuals and local history societies in Hertfordshire. Members receive a discount on the retail price of books published in the series.
Book proposals
Proposals for new books on Hertfordshire history will be considered by the Hertfordshire Publications Editorial Committee and the following criteria will be taken into account:
- The imprint is confined to the publication of books on the history of Hertfordshire.
- Only books of county-wide interest will be accepted for publication. This would in most cases exclude parish histories.
- We would normally expect manuscripts to be not less than 40,000 words long.
Books to explore
Lady Anne Bacon
Author: Deborah Spring
Format: Paperback
Deborah Spring's deeply researched and compellingly readable book reveals Anne Bacon's extraordinary part in shaping the public story of Tudor history.
Price: £18.99 (free postage)
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St Albans: A history
Author: Mark Freeman
Format: Paperback
Mark Freeman’s classic history of St Albans, first published in 2008, has been substantially rewritten by the author and brought fully up to date, making it an invaluable guide to more than two thousand years of St Albans’s history.
William Ellis
Author: Malcolm Thick
Format: Paperback
William Ellis, who lived and farmed at Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire in the first half of the eighteenth century (d. 1759), is an important figure in English agricultural history.
A Caring County?
Editor: Steven King , Gillian Gear
Format: Paperback
This comparative study gathers together new research by local historians into aspects of welfare in Hertfordshire spanning four centuries.
A Place in the Country
Author: Judith Pettigrew , Rory W. Reynolds , Sandra Rouse
Format: Paperback
Three Counties Asylum 1860-1999
Archaeology in Hertfordshire
Editor: Kris Lockyear
Format: Paperback
This volume celebrates the close collaboration of professional archaeologists and highly skilled avocational groups that is a hallmark of archaeology in Hertfordshire.
Children of the Labouring Poor
Author: Eileen Wallace
Format: Paperback
This book focuses on the lives of working children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire employed in agriculture, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, paper and brickmaking and as chimney sweeps.
Cinemas of Hertfordshire
Author: Allen Eyles , Keith Skone
Format: Paperback
This is a book that will intrigue and entertain film buffs and local historians alike.
Hertfordshire
Author: Anne Rowe , Tom Williamson
Format: Paperback
Lavishly illustrated with maps and photographs, this authoritative work will be invaluable reading for all those with an interest in the history, archaeology, and natural history of this fascinating county.
Hertfordshire Garden History - Volume 2
Editor: Deborah Spring
Format: Paperback
“This is thorough, well-illustrated with archive pictures, and of interest to readers way beyond Hertfordshire's boundaries.” Historic Gardens Foundation Newsletter
Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire
Editor: Susan Flood , Tom Williamson
Format: Hardback
Presents complete transcriptions of all the key documents relating to Repton's activities, including the full text of seven Red Books.
Industrial Letchworth
Author: Letchworth Local History Research Group
Format: Paperback
In this richly illustrated account, Letchworth Local History Research Group look in detail at the town’s foundation in the early 1900s and the energetic organisation and administration that enabled it to get off the ground quickly and successfully.
Letchworth Settlement, 1920–2020
Author: Kate Thompson
Format: Paperback
A century of creative learning
Medieval Parks of Hertfordshire
Author: Anne Rowe
Format: Paperback
“There is something in Rowe's book for everyone, from those interested in the history of the county, or of parks generally, to those requiring methodological templates for their own local studies.” Amanda Richardson, Landscape History
Music-making in the Hertfordshire Parish, 1760–1870
Author: Maggie Kilbey
Format: Paperback
Maggie Kilbey explores attempts to improve parochial music-making in Hertfordshire between 1760 and 1870.
Passing Through
Author: Fabian Hiscock
Format: Paperback
Fabian Hiscock considers the dramatic technological and economic changes of the last decade of the eighteenth century as it played out in western Hertfordshire, focusing in particular on just one of the many innovations of the time: the Grand Junction Canal, created to connect the Midlands with London.
St Albans: Life on the Home Front, 1914-1918
Editor: Jonathan Mein , Anne Wares , Sue Mann
Format: Paperback
This study examines the reality of life on the Home Front in St Albans during the First World War.
The Origins of Hertfordshire
Author: Tom Williamson
Format: Paperback
Greatly expanded and extensively revised, this book examines the history of Hertfordshire from late prehistoric times to the thirteenth century.
The Peaceful Path
Author: Stephen V. Ward
Format: Paperback
Stephen Ward reassesses the legacy of Ebenezer Howard.
Tracing your Family History in Hertfordshire
Author: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
Format: Paperback
This practical and comprehensive guide provides an indispensable introduction to everything family historians need to know in order to trace their ancestors.
Tudor and Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire
Author: Anne Rowe
Format: Paperback
This meticulously researched book opens a window onto Tudor and early Stuart Hertfordshire and illuminates a significant aspect of the county’s landscape history.