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HERTFORDSHIRE HISTORY
Paperback, illustrated, 200pp. £12.95
Paperback, illustrated, 104pp. £9.95
Paperback, 112pp. £4.50 The Artist and the Organist: the Luppinos of Hertford and Ware by Derek Forbes -- see the opening page of this website ("Welcome to Rockingham Press") THE "PAST IN PICTURES" SERIES The 'Past in Pictures' series, published by the Rockingham Press, goes from strength to strength ... each volume outstanding for the quality and interest of its photographs, and each -- though it contains no narrative history -- provides illuminating captions which fill many of the gaps which conventional historians do not reach. (Arthur Jones in Hertfordshire's Past, No 38) All titles are sewn hardback with coloured jackets
BROXBOURNE AND WORMLEY'S PAST IN PICTURES by David Dent 160pp. £14.95 CHESHUNT'S PAST IN PICTURES by Peter Rooke 168pp. £14.95 HERTFORD'S PAST IN PICTURES by Len Green 168pp. £14.95 HODDESDON'S PAST IN PICTURES by David Dent 160pp. £14.95 WARE'S PAST IN PICTURES by Maurice Edwards and David Perman 160pp. AS THE RESULT OF A REPRINT NOW PRICED £16.99 A CENTURY OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN EAST HERTS The centenary publication of the East Herts Archaeological Society, describing its success in recording the area's heritage, buried below ground and in its standing buildings. Edited by David Perman 96pp. Illustrated -- Hardback, £9.95 Paperback, £4.95 WARE MUSEUM & WARE SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS Rockingham Press is able to distribute publications of the Ware Museum and the Ware Society, including the following: THE HISTORY OF WARE by Edith Hunt Hardback, 206pp. £7.95 THE STREETS OF WARE by Thera Alcock Stapled, 36pp. £2.50 WARE IN POEMS AND PRINTS Edited by David Perman, Stapled, 52pp. £3.00 600 YEARS OF CHARITY: A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees by David Perman, Stapled, 48pp. £3.00 A NEW GUIDE TO SCOTT'S GROTTO by David Perman, Stapled, 12pp. £1.00
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Ware
at War 1939-1945 is Derek Armes's second book about the
Hertfordshire town of Ware in time of war. While it also gives the
stories of men and women on active service, it concentrates mainly
on the Home Front. There were air raid wardens, first aid and rescue
workers, Local Defence Volunteer and their successors "Dad's Army"
or the Home Guard, fundraisers for the "war effort", providers of
comforts for the troops, hosts for evacuees and many other wartime
roles. Derek has researched the town at war thoroughly from the
printed records as well as the memories of local people. And the
book is profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings.
Our Boys: Ware Men in
the First World War is about the 650 men from the small
town of Ware who went to France in 1914-1918 -- most of them in
the 1st Battalion the Hertfordshire Regiment (Territorials). One
in three (220) was killed. Most families in the town lost a son,
husband or other relative. Their story and the story of their famlies
is told in this well-researched new book by Derek Armes. 
In an earlier war -- between the King and Parliament -- Ware was
the scene of a crucial confrontation. On 15 November 1647 a rendez-vous
of the New Model Army resulted in a near mutiny engineered by the
Levellers. Only one man died -- shot on the orders of Fairfax and
Cromwell -- but the incident proved a turning point in the political
struggles of the time. Dr. Alan Thomson of the University of Hertfordshire
examines a wealth of evidence to answer the question in the title:
The Ware Mutiny 1647: Order Restored or Revolution Defeated?
[Fully illustrated & with texts
of original documents.]
AMWELL
AND STANSTEAD'S PAST IN PICTURES by Stephen Doree and David
Perman 160pp. £14.95 Copyright © David Perman 2000--2008
