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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Day K Coaching Days in Market Harborough
716 K
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
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
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
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
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
Mastoris S Accessions to the Harborough Museum in 1992
1994
12
4
Mastoris S
Hunting the Green Dragon
612 K
Mastoris S Barry Summers (1939-2000)
136 K
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 <