University of Hertfordshire Press

16/07/2025

"This book is an analysis and interpretation of the nature of local history fifty years after the publication of W.G. Hoskins' Local History in England in 1959. It is a thought-provoking, intellectually stimulating book from the Centre for English Local History, Leicester, and the British Association for Local History."
Gill Draper, Federation of Family History Societies

“This book is an analysis and interpretation of the nature of local history fifty years after the publication of W.G. Hoskins’ Local History in England in 1959. It is a thought-provoking, intellectually stimulating book from the Centre for English Local History, Leicester, and the British Associ...

15/07/2025

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"The volume is well-illustrated with sixty-seven monochrome images, and a coloured portrait of its subject on the front cover. The essays are written by specialists in their respective fields and are well-referenced. The work is equipped with appropriate bibliographical apparatus in the form of a comprehensive bibliography, a detailed index, and an appendix transcribing Plume's long and complicated will. Hence it presents a fitting memorial to the man and his library."
David Stoker, Library and Information History Journal

“This is a model biography which illuminates its subject by examining his life as a student, a cleric in testing times, an acquirer of property, a book lover and a writer of a complex will benefitting a wide range of charities. He was a modest, almost self-effacing, philanthropist, deeply concerne...

11/07/2025

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08/07/2025

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"Cultural historians endeavour to understand experience, and Nejedly brings some shockingly unpleasant experiences to life."
Cheryl Deedman, Family and Community History

“Nejedly understands her study as a historically informed contribution to ending child labour in our times… by underlining the emotional consequences not so much of labour, but of neglect, forced migration, and alienation. Her plea is not blinded by philanthropic thinking but based on the detail...

05/07/2025

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"This is thorough, well-illustrated with archive pictures, and of interest to readers way beyond Hertfordshire's boundaries."
Historic Gardens Foundation Newsletter

“This is thorough, well-illustrated with archive pictures, and of interest to readers way beyond Hertfordshire's boundaries.”

04/07/2025

"This book will be of interest to historians of education particularly as a case study of the Settlement movement in Britain and also because of Letchworth's position as the world's first garden city. Kate Thompson, local historian and archivist, has produced an accessible, readable and engaging historical account. The book is well-illustrated, with both colour and black and white photographs, and yet modestly priced."
Andrew Jenkins, History of Education Researcher

https://www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/books-content/letchworth-settlement,-1920-2020

“This book is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the history of lifelong learning, often just seen as a modern phenomenon. It shows the value of keeping archives and the minutiae which can be found in them. It also illustrates what can be achieved when individuals share their knowledge. F...

28/06/2025

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"comprises a significant contribution to the project of retrieving the neglected history of working children"
Katrina Honeyman, The Economic History Review

“A significant contribution to the project of retrieving the neglected history of working children.” Katrina Honeyman, Economic History Review

27/06/2025

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Anne Bacon's husband Nicholas died after a short bout of pneumonia in 1579. In life, he was a wealthy man with a very large income. But now, Anne was to face an uncertain future with an estate to manage, no great reserves of cash and bitter infighting between Nicholas's various children from his two marriages.

Find our more about the fascinating life of Lady Anne Bacon: https://www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/books-content/lady-anne-bacon

“Readers of this rich biography will be rewarded with an evocative insight into Anne's unique life as a perceptive and persevering scholar at the Tudor court.”

24/06/2025

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Käthe Buchler was a pioneering woman photographer whose exceptional photographs offer very personal insights into Germany during World War One, with a particular focus on the home front and the lives of women and children.
https://www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/books-content/beyond-the-battlefields

Author: Matthew Shaul, Sarah Lloyd , Barbara Hofmann-Johnson , Ian Grosvenor and Nicola Gauld , Helen Boak , Pippa Oldfield

23/06/2025

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"This excellent, informative study of William Ellis and his publications will be of interest to historians of eighteenth-century farming and cookery, and, of course, Hertfordshire."
Heather Falvey, The Local Historian

https://www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/books-content/william-ellis

“This is a grand book and [UH Press] is to be congratulated on putting it out and for not charging the usual academic arm and a leg.”

16/06/2025

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"The text describes how [the asylum] provided work for many locals, and gives a detailed account of the buildings themselves and of the staff and patients who populated them. The buildings included a chapel – St Luke's – and a nurses' home, and even an on-site brewery! Even without ancestors in the Three Counties area it is a useful book on the subject of asylum care."
Paul Gaskell, Oxfordshire Family Historian

“The text describes how [the asylum] provided work for many locals, and gives a detailed account of the buildings themselves and of the staff and patients who populated them. The buildings included a chapel - St Luke's - and a nurses' home, and even an on-site brewery! Even without ancestors in th...

15/06/2025

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"[I]nvaluably comprehensive and fascinating... no-one can afford to be without it." Ruth Jeavons, Herts Past & Present

https://www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/books-content/st-albans-a-history

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.