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Historian Articles 1984 - 2009

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 are on sale in the Harborough Museum, Quinn's Bookshop, Waterstone's and Walkers Books.

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Contributor	Title of Article	Size	Year Published	Book Number	Page
Abbott S G	Market Harborough and the Railway		2008	25	29
Ashmore T	The War Memorial at the Cottage Hospital		2002	19	19
Ashton C	The Story of Springfield Street		2003	20	28
Ashton C	Market Harborough No. 3 Signal Box		2008	25	24
Aucott P	Market Harborough Photographers before 1900		1989	8	20
Aucott P	Museum Memories		2007	24	19
Aucott P	The George: A Lost Market Harborough Inn		2008	25	19
Aucott P	Book Review - Leicestershire and Rutland Tales of Mystery and Murder by David Bell		2008	25	68
Aucott S	All the China in the Maternity Unit was Pink		1997	14	15
Baildon P	The Railway Station at Market Harborough		2008	25	59
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
Barker S	Book Review - Faxton The Lost Village by Bryan Holden		2009	26	59
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
Burbidge B	Lubenham and the Railway		2008	25	39
Bury J	Seventieth 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	Fatal Train Collision in Market Harborough		2008	25	43
Hakewill R	The Loyal Harborough Volunteers		2009	26	48
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
Harris S	Proposed Changes in Local Government		2008	25	16
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
Hartley R F	The Achitecture of Market Harborough's First Railway		2008	25	53
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 and Rutland Privies by David Bell		2007	24	59
Hodgkinson J	Book Review - The Historic Parks and Gardens of Leicestershire and Rutland by Leonard Cantor and Anthony Squires		2009	26	56
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 and Rutland by Geoffrey Kingscott		2007	24	57
Holden L	Book Review - Dunton Bassett - A Village History by Dunton Bassett Local History Group		2009	26	55
Holden L	Editor's Comments		2007	24	5
Holden L	Editor's Comments		2008	25	5
Holden L	Editor's Comments		2009	26	3
Ingham P	The Railway at Hallaton		2008	25	33
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
Johnson D	Handel's Messiah and Church Langton - An Anniversary Perspective		2009	26	14
Knight M	Turnpike Roads and Waymarkers around Market Harborough		2009	26	21
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
Langley A	A Parish History in Field-Names		2009	26	39
Lewis N	The 75th Anniversary of the Market Harborough Drama Society 1933-2008		2008	25	21
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
Lovell J	Kibworth Station and the Midland Line		2008	25	45
Lovett G	West Langton Hall		2009	26	10
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
Matthews Z	Curator's Column		2008	25	2
Matthews Z	Curator's Column		2009	26	2
Matts M	The Canal Comes to Market Harborough		2007	24	43
Matts M	Two Hundred Years of the Harborough Canal		2009	26	33
Morris J	'A Dangerous Structure' The Sad Fate of St Denis Church, Faxton		2009	26	27
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
Oliver P	'First Duty and Truest Pleasure' Researching Local History		2009	26	50
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
Ryan A	Book Review - Memories of the Leicestershire Coalfields by David Bell		2008	25	74
Scarlett E	Not Such Good Old Days		2006	23	15
Score V	Rituals, Hoards and Helmets - The Hallaton Treasure		2009	26	42
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	19	29
Snell K D M	English Local History at the University of Leicester		1994	12	24
Snelling Jane	Review of Society Meetings		1998	15	19
Snelling Jane	Welland Valley Society Reflected in Memorials		1998	15	8
Snelling Jane	Historian Articles 1984-1999		1999	16	11
Snelling Jane	Book Review -Gartree, The story of a Prison by Dick Callan.		2006	23	37
Snelling Jane	Book Review -The Good Gargoyle Guide (medieval carvings in Leicestershire and Rutland). by Bob Trubshaw		2006	23	37
Snelling Jane	CD Review - Little-Known Leicestershire and Rutland by Bob Trubshaw		2008	25	72
Snelling J	Book Review -Wings of the Morning (The Life of Captain James Belgrave) by Dennis Edensor.		2007	24	60
Snelling J	Book Review -Leicesterhire and Rutland Airfields in the Second World War. by Martyn Chorlton		2008	25	73
Snelling J	Book Review -The Scheduled Ancient Monuments of Leicestershire and Rutland by Leonard Cantor		2009	26	54
Soer J	Rural Posts of the 19th Century in the Harborough District		1996	13	7
Soer J	The Post Office in Market Harborough		1994	12	6
Souster L	Curator's Column		2001	18	2
Souster L	Curator's Column		2002	19	2
Southwell S	Organising a Village Display		1990	9	36
Stevens R	Fleckney - Here Comes the Scavenger Man	96 K	1999	16	9
Stevens R	Fleckney - What's in a Name		1999	16	10
Stevenson A	The Leicestershire Collection		1988	7	22
Stretton G R	Photographs do not Lie!		2001	18	32
Stretton G R	Changes at Aldwinkle's Yard		2002	19	11
Stretton G R	MHHS Website		2002	19	36
Stretton G R	CD Review - A Virtual Walk around Leicester by Max Matthews		2008	25	71
Sullivan C	Book Review -Naseby: English Civil War-June 1645 by Martin Marix Evans, Peter Burton and Michael Westway.		2006	23	39
Sullivan C	Book Review - Naseby 1645: The Triumph of the New Model Army by Martin Marix Evans.		2008	25	69
Summers B	The Harborough Boys' - Progress	128 K	1999	16	6
Symington P	A Soupson of Symington		2003	20	24
Symington P	A Second Soupson of Symington		2004	21	30
Thornton M	Local Women after the Black Death		2005	22	5
Tillotson J	Wartnabys		2003	20	3
Tugwell J	Old Timer Snippets		2006	23	10
Tugwell J	Book Review -Ghosts and Hauntings in and around Leicestershire by Andrew James Wright		2007	24	58
Tugwell J	Book Review - Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Leicester by Kevin Turton		2008	25	70
Tugwell J	Book Review - The Historic Parish Churches of Leicestershire and Rutland by Leonard Cantor		2009	26	58
Turville Petre M	St Mary’s Catholic Church Bosworth Hall		1988	7	13
Weedon R	Agriculture in the Harborough Area		1988	7	19
Weedon R	Agriculture & Farming Life in the Harborough Area		1989	8	22
Wells S	Market Harborough’s Fieldwork Group’s Barn Survey		1991-2	10	22
Weston S	The Vamping Horn in Northamptonshire		1989	8	5
Weston S	The Church Choir Band in the Harborough Area		1991-2	10	15
Wheway D	Harborough Town Trail	640 K	2001	18	28
Whitlock J	Mr H W Webb, Master Photographer		2002	19	8
Wilford P	Printing Connection in Clipston and Market Harborough		2006	23	29
Wilkinson B R	Wartime Boyhood in Great Bowden		2006	23	5
Willatts R M	Mud Structures in the Harborough Area	564 K	2000	17	24
Willatts R M	The Settling Rooms		2004	21	20
Willatts R M	The Early History of Market Harborough		2004	21	24
Willatts R M	Obituary - Frank Berry		2007	24	6
Willatts R M	Queen Anne in Harborough		2007	24	51
Willatts R M	Where to Bury the Dead? Market Harborough Cemetry 1875-78		2008	25	7
Willatts R M	Vivian Redlich (1905-1942) of Little Bowden		2009	26	4
Willatts R M	Market Harborough Historical Society Summer Visit		2009	26	53
Wooldridge D	The Weathermen of Harborough		1989	8	11
Wooldridge D	Market Harborough Historical Society - 60 Years Old		1991-2	10	11
Wooldridge D	Market Harborough and the Temperance Movement		1991-2	10	29
Wooldridge D	Market Harborough’s Free Church Institute		1993	11	20
Wooldridge D	The Great Flood of 1880		1994	12	18
Wooldridge D	Husbands Bosworth Baptist Chapel		1994	12	21
Wooldridge D	Foxton Baptist Church		1996	13	19
Wooldridge D	Market Harborough & District Free Church Council		1997	14	3
Wooldridge D	Market Harborough Weather Records	1 MB	1999	16	21
Wooldridge D	Is Our Climate Getting Wetter?		2001	18	13
Wooldridge D	Professor Henry Arthur Jones 1917-2002		2002	19	12
Wooldridge D	Historical Society 75 Years		2006	23	18
Wooldridge D	Obituary - Ann Paul		2007	24	6
Wooldridge D	Market Harborough Historical Society - Personal Recollections		2007	24	7
Wooldridge D	Summer Visit June 2008		2008	25	66
Wooldridge D & Hakewill R	The Newcombes - Victorian Developers and Benefactors		2005	22	46

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