Article with black and white photographs. The Mausoleum, West Wycombe, Bisham Abbey, Berkshire and The Gothic Temple, Stowe, Buckinghamshire. Details and photographs of these three monuments.
P-HC/A/204
Date: [1950]
Article with black and white photograph. Article details Benjamin Disraeli’s life. His politics, his career and his marriage. He bought Hughenden estate after he had represented Buckinghamshire in 1847 in Parliament. He retired and looked at the primroses in his Hughenden Estate. The Primrose League was formed in 1883 to remember him and furthering patriotic ...
P-HC/A/203
Date: [1960]
Collection of articles, photographs, items, books and newspaper cuttings relating to Alexandra Day.
E-AD
Date: 1912
Isaac D’Israeli was Benjamin Disraelis’ father. He imported Italian products. He prospered in trade and was a stockbroker. He was born in 1766 in London and died in 1816. He had a very privileged background. He read from a very early age and was renowned for his learning and prodigious literary output. He had a ...
P-HC/A/202
Date: [1990]
Overview of some of the details of WW1 involvement by places in Buckinghamshire. Includes Cliveden, Halton, Denham, High Wycombe, Whiteleaf Hill practice trenches, memories and memorials.
E-WW1C/D/007
Date: 2018
2 sheets. Article about a house in Priory Avenue built around 1700 remodelled in 1778, the building noted by Nikolaus Pevsner. The property history is detailed including its building on Wycombe Rectory land claimed after the dissolution of the exisiting monastery by Henry VIII. Bought as a modest farmhouse by Samuel Wells 1st. Samuel Wells ...
P-HC/A/201
Date: [2000]
Details of how to become a Digital Champion published by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Includes contact details.
E-WW1C/D/006
Date: 2018
Explanation and rules for the Public Speaking Competition being held as part of the World War One Commemorations.
E-WW1C/D/005
Date: 2018
Article plus colour photograph details the wife of Benjamin Disraeli. It details their relationship and some of her frequent gaffs in High Society. Mary Anne had been married and was wealthy but all money was in Trust. Disraeli was broke after buying Hughenden Manor but he needed to own a country house to be considered ...
P-HC/A/200
Date: [2000]
Appeal by Beaconsfield Town Council for items and stories to be included in the digital National Archive and the exhibition in the Town Hall marking the Centenary of WW1.
E-WW1C/D/004
Date: 2018
Outline of events and detailed programme of them including timetable being held at Bekonscot.
E-WW1C/D/003
Date: 2018
Article plus colour photographs about a supposed Unidentified Flying Object in Plomer Hill, over High Wycombe spotted in 1871. The article also details the life of William Robert Loosley
P-HC/A/199
Date: [2000]