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Historian Articles 1984 - 2007

The Harborough Historian is published jointly by the Market Harborough Historical Society and the Harborough Museum. It was first published in 1984 and contains short articles and notices of research in progress on the history of Market Harborough and the forty or so parishes within ten miles of the town which forms the collection area of the Harborough Museum. This publication is free to members. Copies of the Harborough Historian, past and present, are on sale in the Harborough Museum, Quinn's Bookshop, Waterstone's and Walkers Books for £7.50 each.

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Contributor	Title of Article	Size	Year Published	Book Number	Page
Ashmore T	The War Memorial at the Cottage Hospital		2002	19	19
Ashton C	The Story of Springfield Street		2003	20	28
Aucott P	Market Harborough Photographers before 1900		1989	8	20
Aucott P	Museum Memories		2007	24	19
Aucott S	All the China in the Maternity Unit was Pink		1997	14	15
Barker S	Book Review -Seventy Years Back by William Webb. Northamptonshire in the Early Eighteenth Century - The Drawings of Peter Tillemans and Others edited by Bruce A Bailey.	76 K	1997	14	39
Barker S	Lizzie Berry - Local Poet 19th Century		1998	15	16
Barker S	Book Review -The Historic Country Houses of Leicestershire and Rutland by Leonard Cantor		1999	16	30
Barker S	Book Review -Garden Plants of Leicestershire and Rutland by Graham Jackson. The Foxton Story by Derek Lewin	76 K	2000	17	29
Barker S	Book Review - Harborough Town Trail by the Market Harborough Local History Group.		2001	18	31
Barrows J	Local Parish Registers on Microfiche		1989	8	25
Barrows J	Recent Publications		1990	9	38
Barrows J	Cumulative index to the first five issues of the Harborough Historian		1991-2	10	33
Barrows J	New Additions to the Local Studies Collection at the Pen Lloyd Library		1996	13	23
Barrows J	Developing the Local Studies Collection at Market Harborough Library	344 K	1999	16	17
Barrows J	Recollections of a Local Studies Librarian		2000	17	17
Barrows J	M H University of the Third Age Millennium Tapestry		2002	19	23
Beckett J	Reconstructing the English Village		1989	8	14
Bennett J D	Mrs Edward Kennard, Harborough's Forgotten Novelist		2001	18	3
Bennett JD	A Market Harborough Carpet Factory in 1828		1997	14	11
Bentley G & Niezawitowski G	A Gravestone Survey at Fleckney		1989	8	24
Bird H	Researching deserted and shrunken villages in South Leicestershire		1993	11	11
Blake R	Manor House Museum Kettering		1990	9	30
Bordolli R	The Care and Maintenance of Medieval Churches		2001	18	15
Bordolli R	St. Dionysius Church Market Harborough - East Chancel Window		2005	22	20
Boynton H	A Short History of Bessie Symington		2003	20	6
Brandwood G	Husands Bosworth Catholic Church		1988	7	12
Brown C	Recording The Past - The East Midlands Oral History Archive		2003	20	18
Brown M C	Great Bowden Village Appraisal 1997-98	500 K	2000	17	10
Bury J	70th Anniversary of the Opening of Welland Park		2005	22	51
Calder J	Market Harborough at Westminster		1990	9	13
Calder J	Market Harborough at Westminster II		1991-2	10	25
Calder J	Harborough's Links with Holborn	1 MB	1999	16	31
Calder J	Open Wide - It'll Do You Good		2003	20	8
Cook L	Curator's Column		1999	16	2
Copp C	Boxing Harborough		1996	13	16
Cox J	Obituary: Harold W Jones		1993	11	6
Cox J F	The Town Clock	164 K	1999	16	7
Crouch D	The Beginnings of Market Harborough		1988	7	4
Crouch D	The Family of Martinwast of Noseley		1989	8	9
Crouch D	Sources for Early Local Communities in Leicestershire		1990	9	20
Crowley E	Remembering Tony Crowley		1996	13	4
Crowley E	Historical Society Review 1999-2000		2000	17	9
Crowley E and Snelling J	Historical Society Review 2000-2001		2001	18	11
Crowley E	Historical Society Review 2001-2002		2002	19	16
Davies JC	Harborough Fair		1988	7	6
Davies JC	A Town Estate Tenement		1990	9	17
Davies JC	One Slate Gravestone		1990	9	9
Davies JC	Ancient Footpaths of Harborough		1991-2	10	9
Day K	Goings on at the Inns in Market Harborough and District	428 K	1999	16	13
Day K	Coaching Days in Market Harborough	716 K	2000	17	13
Deas L	The Arthingworth Village Appraisal		1993	11	22
de Rousset-Hall O	Peter Howard Symington (1934-2005)		2005	22	13
Elliott B	Nonconformity in the Harborough Area		1990	9	11
Fisher D & Grant S	Trades & Traders of the Harborough Area 1840-1900		1990	9	31
French A	Aviation in Leicestershire		2006	23	32
Gaukroger S	Researching Local History		2006	23	35
Goodwin A	Recent Accessions to the Leicestershire Record Office for the Harborough Area		1991-2	10	31
Goodwin A	Recent Accessions to the Leicestershire Record Office for the Harborough Area		1994	12	26
Goodwin D	Size Does Matter		2001	18	26
Hakewill R & Hauerberg V	Harborough The Name		2003	20	9
Hall A	General Jack of Kibworth Harcourt 1880-1962		2006	23	21
Hartley R F & Souster L	Curator's Column	168 K	2000	17	2
Harris S	Education & Society in Market Harborough		1993	11	16
Harris S	Harborough’s lucky escape in 1849 from premature sanitory reform		1994	12	12
Harris S	Odd Taxes		2003	20	35
Harris S	Support for Ejected Clergy in a Great Bowden Will of 1674		2004	21	6
Harris S	Great Bowden Chantry		2004	21	8
Harris S	Documents for Future Research	184 K	2005	22	18
Harris S	Market Harborough and District in 1851		2007	24	48
Hartley R F	Curator’s Column		1997	14	37
Hartley R F	Curator’s Column		1998	15	2
Hartley R F	The W Symington & Company Collection		1998	15	12
Hartley R F	The Demise of Noseley Hall	120 K	1999	16	28
Hartley R F	Paddy Logan's Army - The Civil Engineering Firm of Logan & Hemmingway		2004	21	12
Hartley R F	Book Review - 3000 Strangers by Ann Paul		2004	21	36
Hartley R F	The Sad Fate of Two Harborough Railwaymen		2005	22	23
Hartley R F	Memories of the Harborough Museum		2007	24	17
Hermann L	A Forgotten House by Sir George Gilbert Scott: The Coombes		1996	13	13
Hewitt B	Lyveden New Bield		2003	20	20
Hodges E	Book Review - Leicestershire & Rutland Privies by David Bell		2007	24	59
Holden L	Book Review - Understanding Leicestershire and Rutland Place-Names by Jill Bourne.		2006	23	38
Holden L	Book Review - Leicester Heroes by David Bell.		2006	23	40
Holden L	Book Review - Lost Railways of Leicestershire & Rutland by Geoffrey Kingscott.		2007	24	57
Holden L	Editor's Comments		2007	24	5
Jarvis B	Snippets from Directories		2005	22	4
Jones A	The Great Bowden Show Part I		1997	14	31
Jones A	Great Bowden Show Part II		1998	15	3
Jones A	Marjorie Mortiboys (1912 - 2001)		2001	18	6
Jones A	Great Bowden: Who was the Old Buga?		2002	19	19
Johnson D	Market Harborough Parish Choir - A Living Tradition		2005	22	34
Johnson D	Hitting the High Notes - Market Harborough Choral Society 1967-2007		2007	24	52
Lacey J	Mowsley A Leicestershire Village		2003	20	16
Lane A	Volunteer Work		1998	15	7
Langley A	Village Administration in the Early Nineteenth Century		2001	18	19
Langley A	'A First Rate Affair'		2002	19	26
Langley A	The Polo Club at East Farndon		2004	21	3
Langley A	Reverend James Nance - A Crusader for Temperance		2005	22	14
Langley A	A Turbulent Priest: John Eyre		2007	24	33
Liddle P & Matthews Z	The Southwest Leicestershire Treasure		2007	24	30
Looms Butland D & Holden L	Looms Limited: High Grade Heel Manufacturer		2007	24	22
Lovell J	Why Didn't It Go on the Railway"	152 K	2000	17	7
Lovell J	To Ride on the Buffer of a Parliamentary Train'		2001	18	7
Lovell J	Anglo-Saxon Crosses		2003	20	31
Mahoney S	Hunting the Fernie		1991-2	10	18
Marshall G	The Hammond Arboretum		2005	22	26
Mastoris S	Accessions to the Harborough Museum for 1988 and 1989		1980	9	5
Mastoris S	Accessions to the Harborough Museum for 1990		1991-2	10	4
Mastoris S	Accessions to the Harborough Museum in 1991		1993	11	4
Mastoris S	Curator's Column	80 K	1994	12	3
Mastoris S	Accessions to the Harborough Museum in 1992		1994	12	4
Mastoris S	Hunting the Green Dragon	612 K	2000	17	3
Mastoris S	Barry Summers (1939-2000)	136 K	2000	17	6
Mastoris S	Derrick Ingleby (1925-2004)		2005	22	13
Mastoris S	A Curator Remembers		2007	24	14
Matthews A	A History of Old School Mews		2005	22	40
Matthews Z	Curator's Column		2003	20	2
Matthews Z	Curator's Column		2004	21	2
Matthews Z	Curator's Column		2005	22	2
Matthews Z	Curator's Column		2006	23	2
Matthews Z	Curator's Column		2007	24	2
Matthews Z	Curator's Column		2007	24	5
Matts M	The Canal Comes to Market Harborough		2007	24	43
Mullins S	Obituary JC Davies		1991-2	10	6
Mullins S	The Harborough Museum - The Early Days		2007	24	10
Oldfield P	The Developement of the Glasshouse from Roman Times		2002	19	3
Paul A	Fieldwalking in the Harborough Area		1990	9	34
Paul A	In search of the builders of the Kettering to Manton Railway		1993	11	18
Paul A	Primroses in December ?		1994	12	22
Pollard R	The Medbourne Project		1989	8	18
Pool G	Bruntingthorpe Airfield - A Short History		2002	19	33
Preston G	The Barn House Clock		2003	20	10
Quinn K	Book Review - The History of Victoria Park, Leicester by Helen Boynton		2002	19	36
Quinn K	Book Review - The Last Englishman - The Life of J L Carr by Byron Rogers		2003	20	36
Redpath F	An Eighteenth Century Marriage		2000	17	20
Robinson P	The Market Harborough Business & Professional Women’s Club		1996	13	22
Robinson P	The Market Harborough British Legion Club		1994	12	16
Roffe D	From Market Harborough to Greater Bowden		1993	11	8
Scarlett E	Not Such Good Old Days		2006	23	15
Seaton D	Thomas Cook and Market Harborough		2007	24	37
Seward G	Almost There - Harborough Celebrates Victory in Europe		2005	22	10
Slater A	Witchcraft in Husbands Bosworth		1993	11	13
Smeathers D	By Return of Post		2004	21	11
Smith E M	Prisoners of War in Leicestershire during the Second World War		2002